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A Glitch in the Matrix

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In the film “The Matrix” Neo sees a black cat walk across a hallway. The scene repeats its self a second or so later. The team understand that “they” have changed something in the matrix and that the agents are coming. Glitches in the observed space-time are indicators that the machines have changed the perceived world in the human battery stack.

One could rephrase that the flow of Dao has been perturbed and interrupted.

I have had numerous occasions when my assimilation of “how things are” has been turned head over heels. It can be very simple things which have interrupted the flow of Dao.

Earlier this week I had an appointment I made, cancelled by someone other than me. I doubt there was any malevolence, simply that I need to comply to method and process, to somebody else’s view of how things should be. I could not believe what was happening when I arrived for my appointment Monday morning having received a reminder text on Friday. “They” changed something without asking. Since then my dreaming has stopped, the flow has changed. The Dao has been perturbed and by a very simple seemingly harmless action. My course towards the future has been altered. It cannot be altered back. It remains to be seen if my dreaming returns or takes a break whilst I am carved and sliced.

During the night when I awoke as one dose of painkiller had worn off and before the next kicked in I was reminded of other glitches in the matrix. I noted that Monday was a glitch in the matrix. In one case I arrived at a ferry port expecting to be met and the other person had “forgotten”.  That rearranged things.

Another glitch in the matrix which was part of the most bizarre few days happened around a supposed job interview in Leuven. I had applied for a job concerning GaN semiconductor growth. As a part of my preparation for this I read up all the latest research and examined over a third of the company’s extensive patent portfolio. I was fully prepared for a technical interview. On arriving in town by car we could not find the hotel in the one way system. It took many iterations. This was a bad omen.

The next day I went to the interview. Because there was an incumbent in post I was ushered off to a secret location on site. I was “interviewed” by  several fairly senior people including the CTO and a vice president. None of whom had prepared. They gave me a PR bullshit presentation and did not ask much at all. I did not join in with the bullshit. The CTO and I did not gel in any way. The HR person was nice and gave me a pleasant probing interview. That night I had a dream with dolphins in…

The following day we drove back into Brussels. There was roadworks. I took a turn and it dumped us right in front of the Eurostar train station, as if by magic. The universe was saying get the hell out of dodge. Later walking around the train station there was a protest complete with large inflatable plastic dolphins. The HR lady called us when we were in the main tourist square to say I did not get the job.  By the time I got home I was discombobulated. “What the fuck has just happened!” It was a massive glitch in the matrix which lasted several days, an alternate reality seemingly overlaid. It was a disorganised mess and I dodged a bullet so to speak.

Around the same time I was interviewed for a space agency job to do LIDAR measurements from satellites. The “interview” lasted about half an hour. They were sat with name cards in a quasi-formal setting. Euro-fat-cats. I thought WTF again. Several months later whilst we were moving house in the snow I got a ‘phone call from Holland. It turns out they were offering me a very well paid tax free job. We went to sign contracts, look at houses etc. We had viewed the housing portfolio before and had our hearts set on one in central Leiden by the canal, which we could afford with the generous salary. Just as we were due to do a viewing we heard police sirens and the viewing was cancelled, for no obvious reason. “They” changed something. There were more warning police sirens. It turned out it was the outgoing director general’s rented house. Anyway I extricated myself from the contract subsequently and this kicked off a chain reaction of events. It was a glitch.

After each of these glitches in the matrix it takes several days or several weeks in which things get back to “normal”. Until a new flow of Dao starts.

The bottom line is that if something looks a bit too good to be true, it probably is. I will treat any untoward or unexpected with much more disbelief than I once did. I am heads up for any more incoming glitches.

The ancient adepts of the Tao….

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The ancient adepts of the Tao were subtle and flexible, profound and comprehensive.

Their minds were too deep to be fathomed.

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Because they are unfathomable,

One can only describe them vaguely by their appearance.

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Hesitant like one wading a stream in winter;

Timid like one afraid of his neighbours on all sides;

Cautious and courteous like a guest;

Yielding like ice on the point of melting;

Simple like an uncarved block;

Hollow like a cave;

Confused like a muddy pool;

And yet who could quietly and gradually evolve from the muddy to the clear?

Who else could slowly but steadily move from the inert to the living?

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He who keeps the Tao does not want to be full.

But precisely because he is never full,

He can always remain like a hidden sprout,

And does not rush to early ripening.

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Excerpted from “Tao Teh Ching” by Lao Tzu

Shambhhala Dragin Editions Trans. John C .H. Wu

ISBN 0-87773-388-0

Lightning Tree – Rainbow – Karmapa – I Ching – Windhorses – Nagarjuna Dream – 05-05-2025

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Here is this morning’s dream / vision.

The dream starts with a view of a large, gnarled tree with many visible roots. The tree is effectively dead with no foliage or growth. I know it to be a bodhi tree which has been struck by lightning.

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The tree is in the middle of a temple / monastery courtyard. It is in a square shaped flowerbed sectioned off with stones. The courtyard is very foot worn. Around the edge is a quasi-covered walk way on all four sides. There is one entrance and one exit corridor. The feel is very Tibetan / Himalayan. This tree has lain dormant ever since it was struck by lightning, by a thunderbolt, dorje. There is sun on the tree and despite its state it is tended and looked after.

This morning a young novice monk to whom the job has fallen is weeding and watering the tree. He notices significant new growth which has appeared overnight. There is growth on some of the roots and higher up in the tree. That growth has been caused by me and my arrival on the planet. The young monk is very excited and runs to find someone to tell. Soon there are a few monks there looking and chattering excitedly. They look up to the sky and to the South they can see a rainbow just below the clouds. The rainbow is feint but persistent. There is much excitement, which increases.

I wake up for a loo break it is 4:30 AM.

In between sleep and wake, I become very aware of the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa in my full visual and mental field. It is as if we are some how joined twinned or connected. The feeling is guttural. They have started some kind of pre-dawn / dawn ritual in honour of the Parinirvana of Siddhartha. They are in a planetary sense to the East of me. There is chanting and those awful horns. I can hear and feel the ritual as if I am there in the hall with them. The visual image of the 17th persists and it is even here slightly as I type. It is clear that something is up / happening. I wonder if the Dalai Lama is dying but search for him and can still find the feeling of him, so am reassured. The ritual goes on and I know in one sense it is connected with me.

I drift off.

I am shown D whom I knew ~ 20 years ago. He is bloated and unwell. He is filled with anger and even hatred towards me. I can see his bloated bare stomach upon which are written the positions by number of each of the 64 I Ching hexagram numbers. They are medical points. I know that he has misused Dao and that he has been taught dark Dao and it has taken seed in him and others. The only chance that they have is to use the I Ching medically to reverse and impede the spread of bad-Dao. I am the key.

The scene changes and I am in the garden outside my office here. I can hear some noises up by the purple rhododendron. Out of sight I can hear munching. I catch sight of a grey spotted foal and her mother a dark brown horse. So as not to scare them I move very quietly. I know they are windhorses or lungta. They jump up and run along the top of our hedges down towards the river. The foal stops and takes a snack on the maple. As they approach the river they are joined by two more white adult horses. Together all four of them ride off along the tops of the French oaks by the river. They are not touching the oaks but flying and galloping in the air.

I am now in communication with some being which says that I am of Nāgārjuna with the j being specific. That I am of the nāgas and nāgarājas.  That is my source and my belonging. I am of Nāgārjuna. The role of the nāgas is not yet understood.

The dream ends.

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Notes:

Nāgārjuna (Sanskrit: नागार्जुन, Nāgārjuna; c. 150 – c. 250 CE) was an Indian monk and Mahāyāna Buddhist philosopher of the Madhyamaka (Centrism, Middle Way) school. He is widely considered one of the most important Buddhist philosophers.

Nāgārjuna is widely considered to be the founder of the Madhyamaka school of Buddhist philosophy and a defender of the Mahāyāna movement. His Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Root Verses on Madhyamaka, MMK) is the most important text on the Madhyamaka philosophy of emptiness. The MMK inspired a large number of commentaries in Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, Korean and Japanese and continues to be studied today.

From Wikipedia

Taoist Attack / Zen Dream 8-5-21

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I am aware that someone, or some people known to me are projecting a malevolent energy in my general direction. I know that this is of Taoist internal arts origin and that the projector(s) have some proficiency in this art. It is shamanic in origin and emotive of bent. They are angry with me and wish me ill. It is not clear if they are fully conscious of the sentiment of malevolence which they are projecting at me. It is nasty and not aligned with the true Tao it is a perversion. In the dream I know that I must not react to the sentiment. I must metaphorically sit in seiza and allow it to flow over and around me. I should not make any effort to reflect it back to sender just simply let it pass. I must not get drawn into their emotive game. I must be zen-like and calm. They are being immature and very petty.

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