a beautiful dream

Still in Dharamsala, and as of the last full moon it is officially winter, and getting quite cold.

Today was a mystical day!

This morning a yogi staying at the monastery stopped to tell me about my aura and my old soul. he told me many things that i already know on a deep level; i felt like he was reading my soul like an open book, from this and past lives, it was very strange. he even said many of the exact same things as tarot reader i saw in derhadun, without knowing my name or birthday. an interesting psychic experience. my day unfolded from there it seemed like all of my wishes from the last few weeks manifested. something i had been searching all over for appeared in a vendors stall that had appeared like a mushroom over night. i made friends with two people i had been noticing around town for some time, and i needed to find this girl who borrowed one of my books, and like magic we ran into eachother on my way home. everything fell into place.

in dream yoga we learned how to wake up from the night's dream and realize how everything is our own mind's creation and thus we have the power to control our dreams, and ultimately stop the delusions of our mind. dream yoga is easiest to do in the sleeping dream, but ultimately it will help us to realize the same things are true of our waking dream, i.e. life. it helps to whenever possible, stop and remember that everything we experience is our own creation, and that we are just dreaming. all these emotions and impressions are just delusions of our mind, and we have the power to change them, and ultimately stop the delusions. but to think "this is only a dream" should not be a nihilistic thought, but rather a way to bring awareness to the nature of our mind.

my germain travel companion has left for thailand, so now i am on my own. i am so grateful i found such a lovely person to travel with, but i am also happy to have some true solo travelling.
in a few days i leave for a 10 day meditation retreat at Tushita, a tibetan buddhist center in the mountians. and then i will have only 2.5 weeks left. amazing how time flies! i thought three months would feel like a really long time, but not at all. i also thought i would travel down to the south but for that i would need a much longer travel period, because i dont fancy running from place to place, i like to find one nice place, stay for a while, and then go on. but there are so many places ive heard about in the south that i need to go to! so i think next time i come to india i will come without a return ticket.

there's this one place i heard about in tamil nadu where there is this holy mountain arunachala. sri ramana maharishi, one of the greatest sages of this century, has an ashram there. this mountian is said to be on the exact opposite side of the earth as machu pichu. like yin and yang machu pichu is the feminine and arunachala is the masculine energy. you also could say machu pichu is the shakti, the kundalini, or divine feminine energy and arunachala is the shiva. indians sure have a beautiful way of looking at the world!

another place on my list is auroville (check out this photo of the layout), the new age community near pondicherry, started by "the mother", the principle disciple of sri aurobindo (another great sage). in this place they "dynamize" water, following the findings of Masaru Emoto, filling it with good vibrations by having it "listen" to mozart. There is also supossed to be some really nice organic farms, and wwoofing places in the surrounding area.....

thats all for now folks,
be happy, be healthy
love,
chloe