Synchronicity Dreams

I was wondering how you explain dreams which predict an event which then occurs, or dreams which are synchronistic with the dreams of another person.

Waiting for manifestation

How will you know when your intended desire has been asked of the universe? What should you do while waiting for your desires to manifest? I am having trouble letting go, I feel like there has to be something for me to do in the mean time.

Metaphysical Meditation

I wanted to ask you a question about metaphysical meditation. I think that is what it is but am not sure.
Since I was a child I have on occasion meditated on the physical universe and all existence within it. Visualizing it’s vastness in my mind. I then try to bring my focus to the outside of that universe, to the outside of that physical space. What was there before the universe? And what space is that space since it cannot be the physical universe. If it was not here there still must be something or is it just nothingness? Unbeing…is that possible?

Thinking about that visualization and focusing on that meditation brings on a very overwhelming feeling which is indescribable. I think it is fear or anxiousness. I am not sure. I even physically feel it right in my solar plexus and the tingling sensation has been so strong that I have to stop the meditation at times.

However on 2 occasions the mediation ended in an overwhelming feeling of happiness or satisfaction I am not sure again. The first time this happened was when I was about 8 or 9 years old and it was the first time I thought about it. I wondered what would there be if none of us were here including the universe. What would be left and the meditation left me with an actual high. Since then it has happened one other time.

Could you please shed some light on what is going on? What is it that I am trying to conceptualize and why does it give me such a strange feeling? I am a Buddhist in philosophy but am not familiar with all of the various dogma from the lines of teaching. I simply try and follow the simple tenets and mostly the teachings of the Dalai Lama and a few other Buddhist teachers such as Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.

Transforming the kleshas

My question today is about kleshas which I believe are sometimes described as defilements and I understand them as character traits rooted in the unconscious mind which give rise to unwholesome behaviour, such as fear, greed, envy etc.

Following my shift in consciousness I spent about 5 years in a blissful state.  Emotions arose but seemed to pass through and I didn’t have the sense of being driven by them.  It was as though life was living itself through me and there was a lack of a personal self.

About 2 years ago I began to experience very strong emotions.  It was as though the emotions were suddenly back and the gloves were off.  Things that had not bothered me at all, suddenly seemed very important and after a while I had to admit that they were definitely driving me.  I found this very confusing.  About a year ago, I met an Indian gentlemen who is a Hindu and has studied extensively in that tradition but also in the Buddhist tradition.  He was able to help me with an explanation.  He makes a distinction between levels of samahdi and levels of enlightenment.  He said that there are 4 levels of samahdi which can be experienced in a human body and that the shift I experienced in 2002 took me to the third level.  I had described it as feeling as though nobody was driving the bus and he said that I could think of it as moving from a relatively small bus, to a huge bus, so huge that I could no longer find the driving seat.  The driver was still there but at a subtler level.  There are also 4 levels of enlightenment which can be experienced in a human body and the first level is attained when the kleshas of wrong view, envy, avarice and doubt are gone.  He said that through the mantra meditation I had done (TM sidhis), I had dealt with the branches and trunk of the kleshas but that the roots were still there, hence the strong emotions.  I’ve since read up on some of this in Theravada buddhist books and have also read Joe Dispenza’s “Evolve Your Brain”.  Following the 2002 shift, the mantra didn’t seem to do anything anymore so I hadn’t had a daily practice since then.  About six months ago I learnt vipassana meditation from my Indian friend during a 10 day silent retreat that he held for a small group.  My program now is about 2-3 hours in the morning comprising physical yoga, yogic breathing and vipassana meditation.  I also do about an hour of vipassana meditation in the evening.  I am enjoying this and feel it is right for me at the moment, however, I’m finding these very strong emotions quite hard to deal with even though I now have a greater understanding of what is going on. I have another 10 day silent retreat coming up soon so I’m sure that will help.

I would be very grateful for your insight.

Chakra Meditation

I began teaching myself to meditate about 6 weeks ago, and I have become very interested in the chakras.  I use your cd set “Balancing the Chakras” each time I meditate, and I have read 2 books on the chakras and auras, as well as searched on the internet for an answer to my question.  I meditate in semi-darkness seated in front of a mirror.  I use the mirror because at the outset of my meditation, I saw colors – mostly red and dark blue and bright white,  sometimes orange and once I saw pale blue, yellow and green.  I also see a fuzzy white aura that follows the shape of my form, and it expands and contracts.  The colors appear randomly, varying in size and intensity.  Sometimes they float and sometimes they sparkle like a tiny gem.  Here is my question: Is this a positive sign or a sign that something is amiss? If I actually see these colors are outside of my body, does it mean the energy from those chakras is leaking or lost and my mind-body integration is short-circuiting?  I have seen only one reference to my question, and it stated that this was not a good sign.  I can say, however, that seeing the colors is a wondrous and calming experience.  I am very new to this path, but I know I was meant to be here.