Maybe I Was an Alpaca?

This morning’s dream points {again} to some kind of Tibetan incarnation, perhaps some lama-dude. I have long held this possibility at arm’s length because I have had no waking memory of such a thing. The dream indicates a time stamp roughly of 1960 when things were bad in Tibet and a number of lamas left. We hear about the ones who made it. We don’t hear about the ones who did not.

They may have been vulture food.

I did once go to a dzong in London and had an “empowerment” by Tulku Akong Rinpoche. A lama who along with Chögyam Trungpa escaped from Tibet during the Chinese excess.

I have often wondered why no waking recall. The only answer I came up with is that life as a monk is so very boring that there is little to remember, no outstanding dramatic events. Tedium, day after day routine.

If the dream points at a very recent incarnation, then that hints at something like a tulku incarnation, where one life follows quickly.

That does not really impinge on the current health problems and search for a nanna-flat. In a sense it is little more than a phenomenological possibility when viewed from life circumstance. I do not see nor feel that there is much / anything left for me to do.

I have hypothesised that there have been many failures, way more than “successes”. We only hear of the latter because it is they who have ongoing wider significance. In a way quiet failure fertilizes the ground for success.

I am at something of an impasse on the health front and cannot currently see any further steps. There is nothing urgent and I can tolerate the pain and lack of sleep. We need to move house before even thinking about any operation. It is not a complicated equation, for now.

I am currently where I am not seeing medical intervention as something positive and healing. It seems like a necessary thing and to be endured even. It does not fill me with hope for an easier existence.

Do I have to? Well maybe it is sensible.

Who knows what if any dreams will follow tonight…

Chögyam Trungpa Dream 23-06-23.

This is a brief dream from this morning. Despite what the body of someone looks like there is also to each being a feeling which they exude and emanate. In the case of Trungpa there is always a bouquet of light-hearted mischief.

The dream starts in a relatively normal dining room set in North London. I have just come in from the garden where I have had my first cigarette for a number of years. There is a young man to one side of the table and Chögyam Trungpa is standing at the head of the table.

I come into the room and go to stand next to Rinpoche. He points at the young man and asks me what he should do with him. I simply say seven, 7, to him.

He strokes his chin, thoughtfully.

The then picks me up and starts to do a very slow motion judo style hip throw with me. It is very light-hearted and a kind of joke-play amongst close friends. He “throws” me to the floor and then offers me his hand up. We then embrace as long lost brothers. We are both smiling.

I know that Chögyam is now going to be “around” and therefore I need to be ready for more than a small measure of chaos. I feel his presence.

As I awake, I knock the plastic tumbler of water on my bedside table over.

I tell the wife and she says that she has been thinking of re-reading “Dragon Thunder” by Diana Mukpo {Pybus}, who was married to Trugpa.