Om

I've always been blessed by good dreams. Not just good, but peaceful, blissful dreams. Dreams that leave me with the feeling that everything is deeply right, in the universe, everything is perfectly placed. Dreams as though I immerse myself in this feeling that is like an infinitely valuable treasure, this feeling so blissful and beautiful that I chase it forever and want nothing more. A feeling that I'm on the verge between two different worlds, this one and some spiritual, beatific plane. It's been this way most my life.

But for a while now I've been away from the physiological and psychological state that has usually been my make-up, for various reasons, and I have had worse dreams. In fact I had a nightmare a couple of weeks ago; and as intensely beautiful as the good dreams were; this bad dream was terrifying, as though a devil were at my neck. Fortunately, it passed just as everything does, as Mr. Harrison told us.

Indeed the whole phased passed, and it's a complex situation, but my psyche has untangled those causes, and know I'm feeling back to normal. I'm immensely grateful to whatever Gods that be. Things feel the way they used to be and those dreams have returned. I don't know what relevance this has to anyone -

I know that we create our world, we control our destiny, and we make the universe; and I know that the quality of dreams are a reflection of our inner psyche, and it's possible to choose and create our conscious and subconscious. I wish more people knew this, could know this.

Dreams are a reflection of everything that goes through the mind; every thought, feeling, sensation; and the most pronounced of these are the emotions we have in dealing with people. I find that if everything is going right in my life, then my dreams are simply incredibly blissful. And further; I know that everything in my life is due to cause and effect. I can only worry about my own actions and thoughts; but in so doing I gain near complete freedom and happiness.

It changed my life immeasuraby, truly, when I learned to accept responsibility for everything in my life. The good and the bad things that happen to me. True - some bad things happen to me that I didn't deserve, and some good things too - and sometimes I do something wrong and get away with it... I can't track all of that, but I found if I do as the Buddhist masters, and the Hindus do, and accept everything that comes as my karma, then it works out perfectly for me. If I accept everything that comes as it is. Hindus teach that the way to treat misfortune is to accept it as one's karma -but to do so so humbly, that is to say, "this I deserved, but probably I really deserved worse, so this isn't misfortune at all, I ought to have gotten worse." It's sort of a secret... it lets you deal with things [I]so[/I] much more objectively and rationally, and thus benficially. It really lets you deal with bad stuff without getting upset, and without blaming - and it's so wonderful because the second you blame, you've strayed from the best way of responding, and you invite more of the same. But if you actually respond gladly when bad things happen, you have a tendency to buck it like it were nothing. And it's not just an idea. Try it, it works.

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When I began to accept everything as my karma, it changed my life. By accepting the bad things as fortune rather than misfortune, and avoiding adverse reaction to them, I succeed in removing a ton of feeling of doubt, guilt, and anger. It's not as though I wish for bad to happen, with all of my thought and mind I wish for health, strength, peace and happiness. In a word, truth. When I accept suffering as getting off lightly, as in, I should have experienced worse; I find that suffering almost vanishes completely. Emerson said it well but I can't find where he said it. Seng Ts'an put it, "Not seeing coarse or fine, how can there be any bias?"