Ra Gopi Krishna!

Just back from a couple of hours at my allotment. It was too wet to dig. The wrens have all gone.

Gopi Krishna's book has quite inspired me! The connections between what he's going on about and the Tibetan Buddhist stuff is very reassuring. Once he's had this kundalini arousal (and avoided dying), he mentions how wonderful everything starts to look. He's obviously projecting radiant wonderfulness onto what he sees. When this happens at first, he can hardly drag himself away from the varandah he'd been standing at.

This reminded me of something I'd read about deity yoga. At some point something called sacred vision seems to check in. Then you see everyone as a deity, all speech as mantra, etc. When you read about this at first, it's hard to get a handle on it. Gopi seems to have got there without knowing anything about deity yoga. He sees a heavenly environment. Nagarjuna, the philosopher of the middle way, says, I think, that there is no difference between nirvana and samsara. Could this stuff happening to Gopi Krishna be something like what he's talking about?

Gopi starts to have wonderful, lucid dreams. Fabulous dreams to die for. He gets them every night. This just has to be similar to dream yoga, one of the six dharmas of Naropa.

For me, despite some reservations about how some of it is written, this is a really brilliant book. This book might change my life a wee bit. It makes me really keen to do this juju. What is the point of doing anything else?