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I miss Rama and Rama students...,
Posted by: moonpie |
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28-Apr-2004-04:24:31 |
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first meetings etc |
how cool to read these stories!
when i was about eight or nine, a curly-blonde-haired kid came into my dream. he was wearing a straw, huck-fin hat and i was sitting on a boxcar train with him when he told me i was in a dream. jus like that he sed, you in a dreeeeam baby. whydontchu wake up awready! wa da tah. well, awright, not exactly like that. but that was the first lucid dream i ever had. no one i told would believe me that it could be possible to know one was in a dream within one. since then, i've come to believe this was Rama.
raised Catholic, religions in general just pissed me off, so it was difficult to get me to go to one of these things. i'd been experiencing some kundalini weirdness tho, unbeknownst to meself, and having delved into quantum physics to some extent, decided it was really necessary to learn to meditate, in order to transcend the boundaries of the space-time continuum.
i pictured Rama as some guy in a turban. and like you, moonpie, i had NOTHING to wear! my first time was in Boston. i was so damn under-dressed it hurt to be me. *he* was interesting, funny, good-looking, but best of all, the food was fabulous. i had no idea what to do with the bowl of water next to my plate tho, or the chocolate shavings near the coffee. but...the ice sculptured dragon!....wow!
at some point he said, "okay, let's meditate. focus on your navel chakra. keep your eyes open or closed, whatever you prefer." i had never been anywhere where people were meditating together. this was so strange. i absolutely had to keep my eyes open! it was all just tooooo weird. everyone was sitting so absolutely straight. they looked like pros! i had barely done my homework! five minutes of meditation seemed like forever. so i just watched everyone else.
then something began to happen; a wave of golden light spread-out across the room from Rama through everyone present. it felt like...like a wind blowing through the deepest part of my being. golden light just flowed throughout the room. it was like, aaaaaaah. felt like falling into a bath of warm sweet water.
my mouth was hangin wide open at this point. i wanted to tap the guy next to me and ask him if he was seein this shit! then it seemed as tho the room began to melt...like a painting in the rain. it was all just melting melting away and i was waiting waiting with the intensest anticipation to see what would be revealed beneath it all. like coming home, familiar, like, "aaah, *that's* what it really is! now, let's see what's underneath it all!!"
and that's when Rama said, "awright. thank you for coming. goodnight!"
the kid next to me turned immediately and exclaimed, "wow! did you see that?! at one point, it looked as tho the room were melting!", making a waving motion with his hands.
i was so blissed out of my mind i could barely answer him. you all know what i mean. everything seemed so cleeeear. sparkling crystal clear. and still. bright. clarified. tssss. beautiful.
then everyone was rising to leave and some brother across the room held-up a flower to me, bowing gently in recognition. after that, i always took a flower from the tables at these events and placed a few petals from each in a little porcelain vase i still keep.
that night i honestly didn't know if i could drive home. i was so blissed out of my mind! the whole ride home i kept saying out loud to myself in the car, "holy shit!!!!! OH. MY. GAWD!!!! WHAT was that!? WHAT was THAAAT!?!!! oh my god." i was screaming in my car. oooooohoooohooooooO!!!!! WOAAAAH! lol. haha!! right off me rocker.
and i called my mentor late that night, "so....when does it wear off?!!! how long will this last?! when will he be back?"
"a day, a week, i dunno," he said. "it all depends on how often you meditate!"
aaaaah!!
and from that point on, i was hooked!! i brought all my artsy weird musician friends! a few of them became students. Rama was like our new drug. oh and we'd get so high...
he spun us. he spun us all good.
and what was that!?
we can answer that he was an Enlightened Being, we can answer (correctly, imvho), an intergalactic ancient being, or that he was simply a *flawed* human being who had undeniably realized something stellar, something that perhaps just may be the birthright of every human being, however unbeknownst to them. but none of these responses would/could ever sum-up the way this one magical being touched our lives, transformed our awareness, lightened our awareness.
what, was that?!
our innermost being, the light of our own heart, in recognition of itself? (ho! UT!)
it used to make me kinda sad that i'd missed so much of the "fun", having only stuck around that first year (92-93). however, i feel fortunate to have come-in for the Kalachakra (a parting gift from the cosmos perhaps), and then some, for taste. i still dream with Rama occasionally. (he likes nice cars doesn't he?!)
what a fabulous experience to have been graced with! whatever that was! we've been so fortunate to have been a part of that.
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