◎Jade Tablet - 11-8
◎Atman - 8
◎Only by Becoming Conscious in a Dream Can You Know Reality
When the Samadhi between the sixth body Atman and the seventh body Nirvana is diagrammed in this way, people may try to approach it as a formal theory or a system for practical training. However, OSHO Bhagwan cautions against this.
"If you intend to know the whole world of dreams, then Yoga, Tantra, and other esoteric trainings have to be introduced. For every type of dream there is a corresponding reality, and unless the whole of Maya is revealed, unless the whole world of illusion is revealed, it is impossible to know reality. Reality is revealed only through illusion.
But don't take what I have been saying as a theory, as a system. Just take it as a starting point and begin to dream with a conscious mind. Only by becoming conscious in a dream can you know reality."
(Quoted from "The Psychology of the Esoteric" by Osho, Meditation Society, p. 143)
What is a dream, and what is reality? To know the whole of Maya, ignorance, is to know all the worlds of delusion.
There is a poem that might be helpful in understanding this. From Dante's Daiji's poem "And You Are Myself":
"Dreams repeated again and again
Brahman continuing to dream
Countless streams of consciousness
Reincarnating, ascending or descending again
And streams trying to return
Brahman continuing to sleep
The infinite universe within one human being
The diverse and plural universes of all living things
The plural universes tangent within one human being
The universe continuing to dream
A distant, distant dream in timeless time
The sweet joy of the fleeting world, heart pounding
And suffering, deep, deep lamentation
Brahman continuing to dream
An eternal dream that never awakens
The dream sea of Akasha sleeping with all secrets"
(Quoted from "The Play of Absolute Nothingness" by Dante's Daiji, Morikita Publishing, pp. 72-73)
※Akasha: In the table of contents of "The Telephone Between Heaven and Earth / by J. Crenshaw / translated by Seicho Taniguchi / Nippon Kyobunsha 1968," there are entries for "The Philosophy of Akasha" and "The Words of Akasha," suggesting Akasha is an ancient spirit.
There is an infinite universe within one human being, diverse and plural universes in all living things, and plural universes tangent within one human being continue to dream. The point is to awaken and see all those dreams.
That is to know the whole of Maya, ignorance, illusion. It is not a glimpse, not a vision, but an experience that cannot be called an experience.
Furthermore, "to dream with a conscious mind" is a technique of Kundalini Yoga. Using this, Zhuang Zhou pondered whether he had become a butterfly in a dream, or whether a butterfly had become Zhuang Zhou in a dream. This was not simply about having a strange dream. Which was the illusion, and which was reality?
