I’m in an ancient foreign Oriental country walking at night in a maze of streets and buildings pursued by an invisible someone.  I am familiar with the neighborhood and lose my pursuer by going in and out of many buildings in the labyrinthine city.  I emerge into a courtyard in an unfamiliar place but see a landmark, a huge shell-like facade on a building on a main thoroughfare that is wondrously lit up.  It resembles an open air bandstand.  I seem to have discovered a mythological spiritual city, a vast wonderful place where a universe fair is going on.  Tourists wander around.  I enter a lavish, spectacular, wondrous, opulent palace with rich colors and shapes.  A priestess informs me that this is the temple of an ancient sect.

 

I enter a room and a young Oriental monk appears.  He invites me into his palace which is extraordinarily wonderful, the essence of good taste.  He is very friendly and affectionate and offers me a place to rest in his own chambers.  He is a king or a prince, very simple and pure.  We communicate as if we have known each other forever.  Though I like him very much I'm a little uncomfortable with the intensity of his love which is pure and childlike.  I tell him I'll sit, that I've been on the road for a long time.  It's clear that we are enlightened beings and I'm his guru.  I tell him that he's a buddha, an arhat, or a boddisattva.  Then I lie down to rest and he snuggles up under my arm and we rest comfortably.  There is great love and peace between us.

This absolutely wonderful dream is coming from a magical and fantastic place, my inner Shangri-la, the Self.  This dream is its own interpretation but I can’t resist saying a few things about it.  To get into this wonderful world of pure love one needs to ‘loose one’s pursuer.’  This means that one needs to get out of one’s ego/mind.  It is the part of the Self that is always commenting unhelpfully on the goings on in one’s life.  I accomplish this through my dreamwork which gives access to the part of the Self beyond the conscious mind.  The ‘fabulous mythological spiritual city’ and the pure monk represent the Self.  It shows me pure love.  I’m a bit uncomfortable with it at first but get the hang of it and ‘lie down’ with it.