The first obvious thing to note is that the dream from this morning contrasts significantly with the one about semiconductor clean rooms the day previous.
Nāgārjuna is a highly significant figure in the development of Buddhist thought. He has an entry in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.
There are numerous scholarly articles on him and he is represented often on water
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Here he has a seven snake halo/aura, is on water and with lotuses.
At Samye Ling of the Karma Kagyu in Scotland he is like this, protected by the Nāgāraja king cobra.
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Our pond looks like this and in a few weeks, we will again have full flower.
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Given that we watched Helen Fry on Motorways, an episode of Annika and 24 hours in A&E on the TV last night, there is no obvious “reason” as to why I should be dreaming of a named Buddhist from ~ two thousand years ago.
In my putative chronology of incarnations there is a gap around Zero AD.
The mantram associated with the heart sutra:
gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā
Gone gone, gone beyond, gone beyond the beyond, hail the great awakening.
I once had a blog called “aum parasmagate”
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It is a little strange and for sure this is the first time explicit mention of Nāgārjuna has occurred in my dreams.
The wife asked, “what do you do with dreams like that?”
There is nobody to tell about them. I can put them up on the blog and make a mental note. That is about it.
Dreamyoga 