dream

[Guest guest]

After posting my question about Ramakrishna's saying about the

person who cannot stay in samadhi but has to come down (like a man on

the roof), I had an amusing dream that seemed to pertain to my

contemplation of the passage. (By the way, thanks to all those who so

generously shared their ideas with me.)

I dream I am at a party in a building several stories high. The

hostess is a rich woman. She is downstairs on the first floor, in in

a large kitchen. All the women are there with her.

I am looking for my husband. I go up and down the stairs

searching the many rooms. The place is teeming with people.

Finally I wail at the top of my voice, howling because I

can't find him. Then I go to the top floor once more and call his

name. He appears at once. He was in a room deeply absorbed in a

conversation about meditation--so deeply absorbed that he forgot

about everything else for hours.

Now he gets up, and I see he's wearing a circular button on

his shirt—-a favor he got at the party. It says: I AM, and under

that

it says, " Go with the flow " --reminding me of the unbroken flow of

oil

to which samadhi is compared.