User talk:Dotnetdr

First -- remember (or remind yourself) where we all come from -- mothers. Will not hurt to think about the Wolly Mammoth and the Ibis while were are at it too. It certainly won't harm anyone to think of Earth and it's inhabitants as it used to be before we got here.

Before we can become spritual practioners we need to pass from the first 3 lower rhealms. The 4th, if we awaken to that level is that of the heart. The story of the birth of the Buddha begins with a virgin birth of the Buddha out from the side of his mother around the solar plexus or stomach region. Out of the animal rhealm and into the spiritual rhealm.

Even the swaztika is used in Tibetan Buddhism. Traditionally underneath where on is sitting. This represents the 4 elemental syllables. The first is AUM. The primordial speech sound. The fourth has no name, essentially wordless and indescribable because it's meaning cannot be encapsulated.

Everything we say and communicate boils down to metaphors. Even the way the universe is laid out rests upon a universal ordering principle (Tib. -- universal ordering principle) that reflects back to us -- our sounds, myths, and waves. It is all described in metaphors of experience like 'how large or small compared to something we know about.' Or 'how bright or dim compared to a phenomenon that we have already measured.' Dreams are only metaphors too. Perhaps a single dreamer dreams a dream that all the other dreamers could have at one point. Either concurrently with the original dreamer or many lifetimes away being gently nudged into recognition of it's familiarity. The dream sending is surely possible just as the Native American's 'dream catching' is possible. In the word's of Paul Gaugain "I shut my eyes in order to see."