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to the dacha and stayed on his so kind of agnostic passer and he was an artist and so he found his way to a lifetime of
of art
ah so there is an example of a
of have a deep dream that shows you that you're not on the right
not on the right way is that the kind of thing even decide
expand on earth
i feel should be some crusher
the signal eight years
yes i think i did go into this a little but i probably should do mar
was
yes
i can quote from the sun gamma
this really some horror stories in that chapter
a about some of those fifty kinds of marco incidentally that certain gama such as as published to by rider a back in sixty eight or so
ah translated by charles look and it's long out-of-print ah it's probably should be brought back intent
suppose that
i'm rubbing out
it was not showing signs of target life
ah

seems to me that he was stuck in that place
ah
i think that there
yeah
the mark of on of someone more mature would be a willingness to go on from experience and to
a be content with the notion that i might not be another great experience like that
but that the
my life is fueled or my life is stared straight by the experience that i had then and i am now working ah a
im not necessarily beyond that a but certainly ah i'm letting it alone and dealing with a world of people and animals and plants
now
yeah and i'm not looking back
is this making sense
except for mature
ah
ah
it's a great without ceasing watch
oh sure oh sure
but you know
a when he comes
ha
and you have that experience then you go on and maybe he'll come again
ah
image
hmm
i suppose he must have felt that way
a if he did okay a he might have felt that way my sense from that story and the way john were told it was that
the he was like a poet who was continually reworking is jovan alia
he wrote comes as i won't repeat rewrote work
ah this how much it trying to get it again
to get it back ah
i'm i'm i always
yeah
telling students
that
yeah
they should ah
value their macho ah it's a milestone on the path for you
but a no experience is be all and and doll and you must go on from there
ah
i can hear what you're saying jack recruiting visit
thing eerie theory
now that's my words and and i'm saying that
ah paraphrasing ah young schon
st joseph the mahayana is beyond that pam listen

that's a very interesting question that yes
good
hearing hearing
elegant roost he described it
yeah yes as in earlier work i translated macho as mysterious vision but it's certainly more than vision ah and refers to the circumstances rather than then they
the perception
that that the
things are uncanny
i'm not a as not ordinary at all and of weird
in some ways
our ordinary are ordinary feeling is that i am here and you are out there
this is the the ordinary immature attitude
and it is also absolutely true
you know i am here and you are out there
but it's only immature in that that is not the on may experience
the sudden realization of interconnectedness is certainly a very precious experience yes

and and also one that can be just a step away from realization
k
i wasn't very poor on the way in which the entire separate see
ah they thought that the truth of the mahayana is beyond the for propositions and transcends one hundred negations and that's it
they thought that was the that was the message
but
i think i think that's what abundant
had a cut to here

heat a or is and just said who is hearing that sound
one of the most in important to ah questions that is asked
in all of than literature

yes and also
yeah and that can go around and around the to get it
who is dreaming the dream
now when i asked that in here more streaming
yes
yes
but you see who is dreaming the dream ah centers the inquiring spirit upon the self
this
but who is hearing that sound connects you up

somebody else had a hand up here in a book or dinner
i write something that is that the issue is washing dishes
that's that's a that's a very important experience to
and
am one of my old friends at coco on came to me and dukson and with his face a light and said to me
ah
when i stood up for kenyan there was only that standing up in the whole universe
a important experience
the dishes washing the dishes
so i tell students move breeze mo
yes
yes the dream is dreaming the dream

yeah
a some and native american languages
i don't have nouns
it's oliver

hush
k summer

maybe you have questions about other matters

but importance of corn
the importance of a con
eh
calmed is ah
and our keenum
yeah no harm
are kinda miss a is a is a word from western mysticism
am
that is especially found in tarot
where such shown images as the hanging man
ah ha far
great evocative power
ah
when you think that the
a in the time period
there were
a few hundred zen masters maybe i i don't know how many but anyway all lot of maybe one hundred
at any one time
and all of these teachers held evening meetings like this
ah in which show a monks or nuns would come forward and make their bows and there would be a dialogue and there might be maybe twenty such dialogues been an evening
and so imagine how many dialogues there were
an olive recorded you know oliver written down imagine how many dialogues they were
hundreds of thousands dialects are more minions of dialogues probably
of this
only five hundred and fifty
are used in sambo killed on curriculum
at most fifteen hundred in some rinzai dodgers
ah and of this
the koran mo has risen to the surface as the most efficacious
of all this our kingdoms are arcana
ah
as ah
like they a images in tibet and temples which are felt to be empowered by the devotions have so many thousands of worshippers
i don't want to make too much of this rather or caught sight of it
oh and we can just to look at the at the ordinary experiential side that term
it has been found to be
the practical way
to realization experience to focus upon this
ah
points
which are
ah inevitably ah
a complimentary cities
and you know they
the scientists at the turn of the century found that the wave theory and the particle theory of light were both true
so how can such apparently conflicting theories both be true well this they invented the word complimentary city to show how a
yeah farm could be emptiness and emptiness can be farmed sort of speed
that's the that's that's that's the basic complementarity of then and of life of reality
ah how can they particular and the universal be the same
well you know in the search comes out and bell's theorem that anything that happens to any particular particle happens to all other particles in the universe a equally and at the same time you know
the sciences is groping for all this kind of a realization intellectually or but a
from the beginning it has been presented in zen poetically
is this a apparently solid gap
body you know is made up of particles that are as far apart from each other as the earth is from the nearest star in relation to their size and even those particles cannot be said to have substance they cannot be said not to have substance
so what is it then
you know ah
ah gorgons a question
what are we where do we come from where are we going
oh is the one that really troubles us in our heart of hearts troubles all of us
and it's in the direction of resolving these deep questions that we examine ah this points which have been in which come out of the heart
of the most mellow and profound experience of great teachers how old was a jojo or joshua when he said mo
boy out on nobody didn't start teaching until he was eighty
you know really he was probably about a hundred years old
ah
and ah he probably didn't have the energy to do anything more than whisper it
but that whisper really came straight from the mystery
and
it behooves us to to understand to stand under to make our own that's the same mystery
so that is the function of con i remember years ago i was talking to an assembly here on the mainland not in this room
when someone challenged me about my preoccupation with history and i said to what you're talking about my preoccupation with history and he said well a you're always talking about cons and there are you know is that there are
dialogues that took place back there and thousand years ago a different country and different culture
well interesting thing about clients are set to except for a very few that sort of relate to folk stories that need to be explained
ah it's perennial stuff
no i mean if you say essential nature to a catholic priest he knows exactly what you're talking about if his a tall learned our catholic nun
if she knows her stuff
ah
the the the words even are the same
there were a dog is the same yolk you can just transpose buddha nature to essential nature does the dog have essential nature or not know
no
am i doing
i didn't mean to offer i didn't intend to hold forth on the subject of clients tonight audience that practicing as excuse me
i thank you
yeah you know that's an interesting question and us and watching your dog kicking away while she's asleep but you you wonder
looking away

this i connected to the words in the diamonds

would you say we're getting warm
point
over and above the experience of market on its function mario process oh yeah
enjoy this dream
yes for what it is

ha
if someone remarked to me
that the the whole world is metaphor
ah and everything in the world is metaphor
ah
this is a very interesting point and ah
etta
ah the notion that all life is a dream
because
ah
without any previous internet introduction to
the idea that all life as a dream to say it is
the someone might get the impression that it's a it's meaningless you know and
has no substance of course it has no substance but right
in a substance of no substance
yeah i was flabbergasted when my mother taught me she knew
my creating i'm very gretna when
reader mr while
gypsy jewish mix
would all the time say and my mother been a huge which i can't be right now hurt her her
her most common phrases the yiddish friend all life is a dream ah i miss she got from her growing up right right
right right
why is sort of
while mr right
like yes yes
yes i think more can be said about that in here
yes
ah
in a sense young shines dream was rather tame
but innocence it was wild
you know
that he should actually go there you know and take your seat comfortably in that place
that's

cause i tax
quarter to know in a quick creditor
yes and you make between dreams through am i on our christian grapes at night by we integrate one
yeah i don't mean to denigrate so much and in fact
yeah in fact some macho occur while asleep
yeah
and a particularly in that that the time
eh between a deep sleep and waking are yes ah ha ha
hypnagogic
if no gagik hypno huh
hypnagogic

however commonly
statistically maybe
the akio that are reported to me occur on the cushions
yes
there is it is in story i heard
a round last year
is it
yeah
i'm
he's behind the i think my new in array
watch
ah
he had some
experience there was having any
what happened maybe not anymore
i was like
during
wait by as you would get here
your and yes that's important but it's not be enlightening for the buddhist and ancestors
i don't care that's good enough me is could not really his teacher said that's minded or isn't it
well of course well
the he asked
hard to say
ah but for sure
with sir
some experience comes some confidence
and

this is a story of a teacher and student who know each other well you know
no

it is uncommon for a student to reply to to me anyway when i say that's an important experience a milestone experience but there's another step
to say no that's complete
ah it's rather unusual and
it sure it show interview of course is different and the dynamics of teacher the dialogue different and everything but
it is quite possible that in this case
and
the student was right and then the teacher was right in agree but i can't tell
it's something like
the students experience of the experience
here
yeah
our experience
well it's circa
ha
mara listening to the message so to speak
ah
when the the put i looked up and saw the morning star this is not merely a trigger for something to turn over
in him
although it was of course
yeah
does he was getting instructions so to speak
and this is the virtue of the mahayana you see that we are all of us are human beings animals plants inanimate objects turning the wheel of dharma together and ah
ha
ah as
ah avatars of the sir
of essential nature sort of speak we get the message from other avatars
we hear so much about looking within and finding the truth there but every single story
an in literature as a story off experiencing something from outside outside quote and quote you a quote and quote it's really not outside but in ordinary terms of their the star the stone striking bamboo the distant peach blossoms and so on it's own
i'm alice daughter's literature
this is what is taught
so
ah
it's not merely that we look within and find essential nature they're not merely that
so
samadhi is vitally important
but the whole world is in samadhi
you know
i ever thought in fact i tell this story and taking the path walking in the garden of rio tako je was signed roshi and he pointed to a frog floating floating on the surface of the water
when you not arms or legs spread out the way frogs do sometimes
and he said what does that frog doing
and i knew better than tried to ah
and he said frogs awesome

even people in mental institutions are in samadhi to some degree they are absorbed to some degree
so somebody is really very relative term
and the whole world is absorbed the someplace wordsworth had the lines of the stones on the highway or deep and admiration member that line
ah ah so
ah i want to encourage samadhi
but eh
somebody is not a be all and end all as the practice or as an experience
that is ones on somebody's personal somebody

well this event have been a very precious
experience for me this evening and this this this week's the to and and i have been spending with you ah and i'm very grateful to you
i only hope that i will have a chance to read every one of these allowed like this at least to some foreign service is useful
maybe ten years from now i'll have a good book

there's round and care and trunk tenders wrong
enough little i'll hear so please place comfort so you won't have to stand up
come right for here
cinema
the the flower arrangement protect hey
right
please come far as remington

lots of around here

come forward and that's it
area

please sit comfortably this evening
he
tomorrow
and i will live
and for two weeks
i to japan for submitting center
i made necessary by the death of my teacher our teacher
and and to visit to her brother and his family on the east coast and we will be back
fr the remainder of october and are almost all of november
with if i am rande so
we're not saying goodbye to green gulch for this year
but we won't be in residence here so i want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your generous hospitality
ah it's been very helpful for us to have this sabbatical
given me a chance to to do some writing and
ha
the bonus has been getting acquainted with you
learning much from you and your program and
a gaining respect for your practice
i'm putting together my talk so on they will mango on the moment can
a book of forty eight classic than cases that was a compose a edited first in the thirteenth century
converting talks to essays is quite a daunting a task
ah and
ah i have read many of them to sangha members of the cocoa on xander during classes
and people there were very helpful ah making suggestions and offering criticisms
and i read the case twenty three to you earlier
during our stay and you're not so we're very helpful with that case and tonight i will read case twenty five
curzon on stream young sean's dream
ah and i invite your comments during our discussion period
fair with me from read this

non schon dreamed he went to my prayers place and was led to the third seat
a senior monk struck the stand with the gavel and announced today the one in the third seat will preach
young shot arose struck the stand with the gavel and set the truth of the mahayana is beyond the for propositions and transcends the one hundred negations listen listen
women's guam comment
tell me did he preach or not
if you open your mouth you are lost
if you cannot speak you're stumped
if you're neither open your mouth nor keep it closed you are one hundred and eight thousand miles off
women's verse
in broad daylight under the blue sky he preached a dream within a dream absurd absurd he deceived the entire assembly

young shan was an early tom master a cousin of lindsay are rinzai in the dharma
his teacher was gray shot
and together they are credited with founding the grey young our ego school of tongue than one of the five is schools of that time
this is a school remembered for harmony
rather than for confrontation in its dialogues
yeah sean went with cuisine to the fields to help him with plowing he said
how is it that this site is so low and the other side is so high
gration said water can level all things like the water be the leveller
yeah shaun said water is not reliable it is just that the high places are high and low places are low
gration said oh that's true
is safe water is the leveller be like water and defined the essential equality
gration is saying water is not the only symbol of reality young sean replies if you just view everything as equal you miss the wealth of unique phenomenon in our world
this and student and teacher are imperfect a card
equality and variety are imperfect a card
johnson was known to his contemporaries as little shocker
a name we might render as shakyamuni jr
a true son of the buddha himself
he acquired this name through a fabulous story
a magician flew in from india one day yeah shaun asked him when did you live india
the magician said this morning
non chan said what took you so long
the magician said oh i went sightseeing here and there
on the way
non chan said you obviously have a court power but you haven't yet dreamed of the great are called power of the buddha dharma
the magician returned to india and told his followers i went to china to find mangia city
instead i found little shakyamuni
mangia city you know is the incarnation of wisdom
it is interesting that a teacher who scorned ordinary a cult accomplishments such as flying through the air would also be remembered for his dream of going to my trails mythological realm
maitreya is the buddha still to be born
due to appear a very long time from now
he is waiting in the to see to heaven indeed samadhi gradually evolving with all beings towards his ultimate role as world teacher
danke schon dreamed he went to the to see to heaven
what kind of dream is this
all life is a dream as the diamond sutra says and other such as say
when he was ninety four yamamoto camp or she inscribed the idiot graft dream which an artist than incised in a wooden plaque that hangs in our temple in honolulu
i get the sense that dream is the way the roshi summed up his long life
but as woman remarks in his verse young sean's dream was within that dream
it was as we would say in western terms a deep dream
the deep dream in zen buddhism is generally placed under the rubric of macho
uncanny condition
visions or other sense distortions that are experienced during zazen
it is a term that is a related to the name mata the evil one
the chinese certain gamasutra sets forth fifty kinds of macho some of which are clearly encouraging milestones on the path
but it warns that perception that to preoccupation with these positive symptoms can lead one astray
i am reminded of a story that john woo told in his class on christian mysticism at the university of hawaii many years ago of a priest who at the age of eighteen had a vision of the virgin mary and then spent the rest of his life
painting rubbing out and repainting his vision on the wall of his cell
he treated a sign of promise as its fulfillment and remained there
a cautionary tale
zen teachers tend to be over a scrupulous in their concerned that macho can be elusive
yet they will acknowledge that commonly a macho will precede deep realization and can even occur as a confirmation of that realization
when young sean told his teacher gration about his dream gray schon remarked you have reached the level of sage
what do you suppose he meant by that
yamato roshi once remarked to me it is possible to be enlightened without being a sage
using enlightened in it's rather technical sense of having a glimpse of essential nature
and of course it is possible to be a sage without being enlightened in that narrow sense
gration is saying however you are an enlightened sage high praise indeed
what is a sage
a mature human being i would say
young son could dream that he went to the to see to heaven and was led in to sit at the third seat because that was his seat just below my trail and shock your money
that was where he belonged he really was little shocker
as a zen student your deep dream shows you where you are in your practice and in your life
you find yourself to be the central figure in a ritual that confirms you on the path much as young sean was confirmed as a teacher and sage nor bluff is possible here
some of my students have found themselves to be buddhist figures covered with gold leaf or with gold light
it is an experienced that transcends sexual identity
women might find themselves to be a shock your money men to be guan yin
there is a sense of the very old or of the timeless and a strong feeling of encouragement will follow
although it is not identified as such kiss thirty five of the blue cliff record is surely a mock
would you are mature
visit mount mutai
believed to be the abode of mangia city
in very wild and rough terrain mangia city conjured up a temple where would you could spend the night
they had quite a remarkable dialogue and next day when it was time for would you to go man yesterday ordered his servant boy to see him to the gate
would you asked the boy what temple is this
and when the boy pointed he turned his head the temple and the boy to vanished completely
a dream and the dialogue of that dream is one of the toughest cons in our curriculum
would you asked mangia city how is the buddha dharma being maintained here
mangia said he said sages and ordinary people are living together dragons and snakes are mixed
would you asked how many are there
mangia said he said front three three back three three
that's the kind of strange nonsense one and counters in a deep dream
you must enter that uncanny condition yourself once
and with your critical faculties alert
with art with your critical faculties alert in order to understand it to stand under it and make it internet
i have not read a commentary are heard a tissue on the story of young sean's dreams in which the teacher says that it is it was a macho
recognize it as such however a marker that goes beyond promise and presents the central world itself
they're in the presence of the buddha's young schon confidently arose struck the stand with the gavel and said the truth of the mahayana is beyond the for propositions and transcends the one hundred negations listen
in listen
the for propositions or the one the many being and non-being
the one hundred negations are made up with for negatives for each of the propositions
not not not neither not nor not not and both not and not not
after making sixteen
then each of these sixteen is found in the past present and future
that makes forty eight
these have appeared or have not yet appeared so that makes ninety six
negate the original for and you get one hundred negations
out out cries gray schon erase erase the truth of the mahayana has nothing whatsoever to do with such interaction
it is found as the buddha pointed out in the beginning beyond the realm of words yet even with the word beyond perhaps some kind of image appears
the emperor wu of leon invited the massage for food to speak on the diamond sutra
food attended to as ascended to the high seat shook the lectern once
of once
and descended the emperor was astonished
the duke of chair
his spiritual adviser asked your majesty do you understand the emperor said i don't understand the duke of your said the my mindset for food has expanded the sutra
my my site for food was a contemporary of bodhidharma though perhaps they never met
he is not a part of our lineage formerly speaking but is one of the great personages who appeared from the potent matrix of chinese buddhist culture in those early pre preterm times
young schon swung the gavel and this was just like food shaking a lectern
then he added words of explication
ending with a cautionary listen listen
pay attention who is hearing that sound
don't neglect this point
women comments tell me that he preached or not if you open your mouth you are lost if you cannot speak you're stumped
if you neither open your mouth ah are if you cannot speak you are one hundred and eight thousand miles off
you will have to wait around for my trail as woman remarks in his comment to case five and ask him about it
no woman is simply echoing yonge on it can't be said it cannot be said cut through not and not not
and listen
who is preaching here new
ah the zen buddhist taisho is literally a presentation of the car
that that car is the cuts see literally the the word call their refers to that shout
the zen teacher

like the her car of the peacock are a coyote
or the mallet striking the wooden drum it has a trace of meaning
hmm and like the others is meaning full
listen listen
women's verse reads in broad daylight under the blue sky he preached a dream within a dream
that's how it is like shakespeare's play within the play of hamlet which is all play
the dream within the dream of broad daylight and blue sky or the buddha dharma and the dharma of trees and birds are completely clear it's all a dream
who is dreaming hair
absurd absurd woman's first continues he deceived the entire assembly
shocking shipping amaro she points out that another version of this story ends with the words the monks dispersed
presumably that is the monks sir
in the dream see the monks dispersed presumably with joy at young sean's teaching
but maybe they were fooled into their delight maybe they thought the truth of the mahayana is simply a matter of transcending the for propositions and the one hundred negations and they didn't really listen

yeah

top who would like to comment or ask a question

this

of course and in fact
the figures of maitreya are quite feminine
when
ah you've probably seen them in are typically are leaning on fingers like this
and they say nothing
but
a
just as a yen can be considered mail
so my trail can be considered female but it's just a kind of fun
usage i think like
that's right they don't have the pronoun
in japanese people love test questions and so i i i tried a few on them
and i once sir went through a affairs of asking my zen friends there is quite as condone or grunion male or female
and the answer i got was usually
sir
ah you know oh i wonder
nash
it's not something that occurs to them because as you say the the pronouns don't appear language

start dumb

yes
it strikes me that
yeah different conventions to the dream
there's the dream which in a sense
is out of touch the dream as wish more hope something that will yeah i think probably i should should mention something like this job because
the even in discussing macho people will come to me and i still say i saw these great lights you know and this little balls running around the slits that sets your heart if it's probably something you had for dinner
and so
ah we need to distinguish pretty carefully between
the the the deep dream that i'm speaking of here which is almost always not always but almost always some kind of religious drama in which the dreamer has a central role although it may be just finding oneself to be
be
the buddha are one of the one of the body surface but usually there's some action
some a action that confirms
the so so this is very different from from
the dreams of ego aggrandisement are the dreams of the involve fear and song
very different
an important point
i forgot to bring my
thank you

hang onto this to me and mean

this guess i would appreciate hearing more about not yet expressive
oh well as sometimes
someone will bring to me a very interesting makkah and i will say to that person if that person is working on a call on mo for example
how does this relate to emote
and sometimes it's very easy to the student will say exactly how this relates to move and what mood is so it's the it's the threshold so to speak of cancer right there
the dream mice the market was
and sometimes it isn't
and sometimes the the experience may be next week or next session our next year
but usually it's a precursor of deep experience
ah a i'm reminded the floor courtois was just here last night to having supper with us
in her ex in her little book called and experience of enlightenment she describes her on macho before her realization experience took place
and she was in a cave living as a as a cave woman with her family
and
they came out in to the the light of day and a there was this beautiful vista
before them all
and all the other members of our family went back to the cave and under she went on
ah you know this there's nothing overtly buddhist about this in fact she had no contact with buddhism at this time extraordinary thing about that that book is that it's an account of a woman's realization experience without a teacher
i recommend that book to you it's published by theosophical press and it's just recently reissued
my on macho
of which i described in taking the path of zen i was
at a at the at the same session when i later had my first important experience
i found myself seated in
a vast depths a temple that had stone floors and enormous stone pillars that that went up to an infinitely high ceiling
and a line of monks in black a very tall monks ah walked around me reciting such as
ah
but the such was the the general attitude about marco that i had picked up already though i didn't even mention this to my teacher
i think that's regrettable
dick their the send teachers kind of gone overboard in i think in warning against to mock your little so it's not given its do
but it's not a be all and end all experience at the same time and so this is what i want to caution people about
don't be like that that poor fellow that kept rubbing out and repainting his his vision and you are stuck back there you see and eight age eighteen for all his life
this is answer your question enough
right now somebody right near here at a christian with that way said brentwood
he might say yes it reminded me isn't either
said not over salad he admired
yes
difficult you
ah
yeah
david did you want a questioned you have a questionnaire to talk more about difficulty of the integration of how it's possible he might
well as yamato roshi was using as i said that term enlightened in its in its narrow sense and in that narrow sense it refers to a peep into essential nature you know which austin he or described as rubbing a clear place
in a piece of frosted glass you know and you're lucky you there and that's essential nature all right but you have to you have to clean up that that all the rest of that impurity and maybe to push the glass out
does so it's
eh it is a
it's important to regard the realization experience in in a very real sense as the beginning of one's practice
and ah from then on you have a lot of work to do
i remember i remember and and i attending a ah ha sons i was at hassan say ceremony for a doctor okada
at the tiny roger dodger
a acknowledging doctor okada is having finished his can current study and preparing to be a teacher
and you're starting to she said now his practice begins
ah always beginning
ha ha and even a
cousin or young giant probably heard his teacher's words with a little bit of doubt you're not thinking
not yet i don't think i'm really a sage yet
even though he he from his heart was confirmed as a buddha
yes
this case
reminds me
raise fish
bed without error
no something without error no no suddenly know oh sorry without error no satori yes without saturday
i
without satori no error message
and
okay i think that this macro
now confirms he said no way i thought it
really confirms i am on the path that's what it does
and what
it is clear
it becomes clear by understanding of the place of marco is that we're talking about a practice about a process here
that doesn't is not a static condition
and that there are a little milestones and big milestones on the way
all the way is endless as billions and she says you know and this practice is continued endlessly you know in this fight part statement there to study the ways to to study the buddha ways to study the self and saw it you know
oh that five part statement it ends and this a realization this enlightenment is continued endlessly very interesting
to play with the with the fact that he uses the passive voice here
ah ah
it's very subtle yes used to be more cautionary about like you
isn't an option master
the of
ah
if it is it's it's not the kind of deep dream that that i'm speaking about here
you can have a a deep dream that shows you that you're off the off the path
ah for example i began ah
as with ah a very close friend
and we we went to visit the send zaki together
and we began sitting with him together
and then very early on he had a dream or this was a dream while he was asleep not one he was doing zazen
and his dream was a vision of a tory it did you know the shinto gate which sure
he had done
which is he saw as the gate to the dharma or the gate to the practice and it was a shimmering golden or wooden gate but with shimmering golden light
and a very attractive gate with a very attractive vista on the other side
but the he realized that wasn't his gait
as