Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

shall choose from those which remain and our readers
will see why these have been selected.
a. Dream. Before going to sleep, one should practice the
sunyata meditations (see Ch. X, Part One, D). From this
practice will come the holy light, a state of meditation
without thoughts or disturbance from dreams; a
perfectly still sunyata experience.
Then one should try to receive a dream, and when one is
obtained, it must be recognized as a dream while still
dreaming. After this one should learn to transform one's
dreams at will while dreaming, and finally to fly in the
dream-state to the Pure Land.
Why have we taken the dream-doctrine first? We have
already meditated before sleeping on the six similes of
sunyata, in the first one of which, voidness is likened to
a dream (see Ch. X, Part One, D, 2, a). With a basis of
this practice, upon meeting with dreams, one can learn
to recognize them as dreams.
Beyond the sunyata meditations, there are some Tantric
methods. Visualize a red A in the throat-wheel. The
redness of the bija causes blood to flow plentifully in
that region, resulting in strong pulsations affecting the
psychic channels, which at that point easily vibrate. A
itself, as mentioned before, signifies sunyata. Further,
the two arteries to the left and right of the windpipe may
be pressed, resulting in the experience of many dreams.
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