Report 55 - Dreams/Commitment

Gaya Ethaniel: We could go back to 'dream' in Lojong or a variation of it?
Gaya Ethaniel: Life as dream or as Zen suggested all dharmas are dream.
Gaya Ethaniel: Or any reports related to dreams :)
Mitsu Ishii: we do dreams, and talk about dreams, but also perhaps we can think about the lojong phrase "Renew your commitment when you get up and before you go to sleep."

Hmm... 

'All dharmas are dreams' is a *view* in the sense that it points to a way of approach recognizing the groundless nature of even the 'idea' or 'teachings' of groundless nature? Even holding/noticing view seems to be a 'practice' of preparation to let go of attachment to view as something unquestioned, moment to moment.

This week, I dreamed of rest, and felt the rest as though I'd never rested before and just didn't know that. A few nights ago I saw a black lake or fabric of some sort, with "sea stars" shimmering from it. Last night I settled into it as though letting someone pull a blanket over and completely letting go. 

Rest, can be the 'starting' place of practice, and renewing commitment can be framed by entering into rest, first, engaging everything activity, 'from' there.

-With regard to Renewing Commitment, I've begun to set an alarm to ring an hour earlier than usual, in order to wake into quiet and linger, rather than waking up at the same time others are scrambling/busy getting their days going. I tell myself that it will be nice to use that time to 'sit' eventually, but for now it seems enough to let my body adjust and to notice the 'new' moments, to consider dreaming, and to enter into the day restfully in the sense mentioned above. 

As a balance, I try to take small naps. :)

Updating Wed night, after my daughter's choral performance in which they sang :

There Will Be Rest   

There will be rest
And sure stars shining
There will be rest
And sure stars shinig
Over the rooftops
Crowned with snow,
A reign of rest,
Serene forgetting,
The music of stillness
Holy and low
There will be rest
There will be rest
And sure stars shining
Over the rooftops
Crowned with snow,
A reign of rest
Serene forgetting,
The music of stillness
Holy and low
The music of stillness
Serene forgetting
The music of stillness
Holy and low,
Holy and low
I will make this world of my devising
I will make this world of my devising
I will make this world out of a dream,
Out of a dream (dream, dream, dream)
In my lonely mind,
I shall find the crystal of peace,
I shall find the crystal of peace,
I shall find the crystal of peace above me
Above me, above me, above me
Stars,
Stars I shall find,
Stars I shall find,
I shall find the crystal of peace
Stars I shall find
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KovW2kxnWQ&feature=related