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July 22, 2015 at 5:05 pm #80273DavidParticipant
Hello everyone, I wish you all are doing fine.
Recently I was talking with the lovely woman who took care of me when I was a child, helping my mom while she was at work. She told me that one day, when I was a baby, I was suffocating in bed, she found was almost dead. After I stopped breathing (she said that my entire body was like blue-purple color and I was like that for about 5 minutes), she saw a small golden star on my forehead and after that I breathe again. I have been always curious about the meaning of that, it might be just something crazy to talk about but maybe someday I can find the meaning of it. Does somebody have an idea about it?. I’m so interested on that because since my childhood I can remember so many things, “weird” decisions for a little boy, driven by some sort of crazy ideals that took me here, to this path and well, to share this with you all.
Regards 🙂Dave
July 23, 2015 at 1:22 am #80290ivanParticipantBeing brought back to life is a serious business. Your task on this planet could be very serious and important to all of us. Continue to seek for the truth, follow the path of love and don’t forget to take action in life and change things. Your destiny could be your favourite hobby or something that you have to find out from your higher self. I wish you all the best, bro!
July 23, 2015 at 11:40 am #80318AnonymousGuestDear David:
What do you think the story means? What do you think that it means that (as the story goes) you turned blue for five minutes, then (as the story goes) a yellow star appeared on your forehead and you came back from the state of dying or dead to life?
What does it mean to you? What would you like it to mean?
anita
July 23, 2015 at 3:25 pm #80339DavidParticipantHello,
Thank you for your kind words @ivan , I hope to realize what my purpose is, I once saw a quote, only 3 words were enough to make me cry and smile at the same time: “born to serve”. What do you think? 🙂
@anita , hello again 🙂 . I would like this story to mean that the reason ” I came back to life” is to share that little golden star with whoever I can. I think that is the most important thing for me, to make people shine, at the same time it helps me to shine too. Is that correct?Thank you again 🙂
Dave
July 23, 2015 at 3:41 pm #80341AnonymousGuestDear David:
I like your interpretation of the story: to shine and make people shine. It sounds as beautiful as the image of golden star shining, a star in the night’s sky. Now how do you do that? What does it mean for you, David, to shine like a golden star? And how is your shining going to share that shine, help other people shine? I am very much looking forward to read your thoughts about this…
anita
July 23, 2015 at 5:00 pm #80344DavidParticipantHi Anita,
For me that golden spark is something that we all have but we forget about it. I can clearly remember a moment at the age of 7 years when I said to myself: “I’m gonna be a good boy at the school”, it turned out to be a good man at this life time. I decided to walk around in the world without an armor and let my inner self to express itself, to discover the truth about me. I know that right now I can’t help other people as I want, since I’m going through a healing and acceptance process of my past. I want to find peace within myself to share it with everyone I can.
As I said in other post, I can feel that my purpose will be to serve, to help people to realize their full potential, to make people smile, to be simple and genuine. There are so many thoughts in my head right now that I can’t write how deep they are.Thanks for your guidance Anita;
Dave
July 24, 2015 at 9:05 am #80376AnonymousGuestDear Dave:
You wrote: “For me that golden spark is something that we all have but we forget about it. I can clearly remember a moment at the age of 7 years when I said to myself: ‘I’m gonna be a good boy at the school’… This makes me think of me when I was a child. I too wanted to be the best student in school. I wanted to please the teachers, to make them like me. At home I wanted to be a good, the best daughter I could be to my mother. I wanted to please her. This was like you wrote something I had but forgot about- this desire to please. That desire to please became a bad thing over time because at least one teacher hurt my feelings very much as I was trying to please her and my mother hurt me many times as I was trying to please her, so pleasing another became very undesirable…
You wrote: “I decided to walk around in the world without an armor and let my inner self to express itself, to discover the truth about me.” This is making me think what do I want now? How do I want to live? Maybe it is going back to the original state, that of wanting to connect, and to please- but in a good way, the original way, the golden-star way. Maybe this is what healing is about, to return a full circle to that state, a new beginning… to revive that child… just like you were revived, brought back to life. Maybe healing is about being brought back to life.
You wrote: “I know that right now I can’t help other people as I want…” But you have- you helped me this very morning and you may be helping anyone who reads this. You just shone, Dave and you made me shine. In my shining here I wanted to give you the gift of knowing that you made me shine. We both made it right here right now, in this forum. Thank you!
anitaJuly 24, 2015 at 9:49 pm #80409DavidParticipantDear Anita;
I’m glad to read your words, it’s very meaningful for me.
I always fall on that same mistake too. When I was younger I wasn’t ready or didn’t got enough resources to fulfill others needs so it made me felt sad many times, as you also experienced. It can make you feel empty or lacking of something, sometimes people even take advantage of that and manipulate you.
In time I learned to put myself first, that might sound selfish but I like to think it like this: you got to be as good to you as you want to be good to other people, in order to serve others in the world without getting hurt yourself or hurting other people. When your cup is full, what comes out of the cup is for others to take but what is inside the cup is mine. The more I grow, the more I can offer to the world.
I realized it a few days ago, reading the posts on another thread where I shared my uncle’s destructive behaviour. We can’t sacrifice our entire existence, joy and happiness just for the sake of pleasing somebody else. Compassion is about service and embrace the world as it is as Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche said.When you asked me to see what is inside the poison in my heart I understood that true compassion comes from the true heart, the one we always try to hide from others, the one who is so pure that no poison can destroy it, our true nature. What comes out from there is really pleasing not only for people but for yourself too, that’s a great kind of service and maybe the most authentic from my point of view.
We can use that inner core to bring back to life our heart, when the flower of compassion blooms on it, then we can really start to heal and make great changes in the world, isn’t that right? 🙂 .
Thank you Anita, for bringing me smiles and hope on my path again, regards
Dave
P.S. : if there are grammar mistakes (horrors) in my post please help me to fix them, I’m practicing my english and would be a great blessing for me to get it right. Thanks! 🙂
July 25, 2015 at 7:35 am #80421AnonymousGuestDear Dave:
regarding yourgrammar, you asked for help to fix mistakes. From my knowledge of English (not my first language either), here are the only grammatical mistakes that I detected, not including punctuation: “I always fall on (into, I think…) that same mistake too. When I was younger I wasn’t ready or didn’t got (didn’t get) enough…Compassion is about service and embrace (embracing, sounds better) the world as it is… ” This is all I can come up with.
Regarding the meaning of what you wrote- loaded with meaning. I only read what you wrote three times and need to read it more times. I copied what you wrote into my Word so not to lose it and read it again and again. There is a lot here. A whole lot. I would like to come back to your thread later when I am more ready to respond. Thank you!
anitaJuly 25, 2015 at 7:46 pm #80432AnonymousGuestDear Dave:
You wrote: “When I was younger I wasn’t ready or didn’t got enough resources to fulfill others needs so it made me felt sad many times, as you also experienced. It can make you feel empty or lacking of something” My mother needed so much help and I didn’t have the resources to help her. It made me very sad, empty and lacking, lacking the ability to help the person I cared for so intensely. I would have done anything but knew not what to do. I felt so … lacking.
You wrote: “sometimes people even take advantage of that and manipulate you.” She took advantage of my endless empathy for her.
You wrote: “to serve others in the world without getting hurt yourself or hurting other people. When your cup is full, what comes out of the cup is for others to take but what is inside the cup is mine.” My cup was full of innocnet love for her. She dumped her poison into my cup, so my cup was full with my poisoned love for her, my poisoned innocence.
You wrote: “We can use that inner core to bring back to life our heart, when the flower of compassion blooms on it, then we can really start to heal.” I stopped all contact with the woman who poisoned me. Over time, over two years now, the poison in my cup has slowly, very slowly been evaporating and i managed to feel some compassion, finally, after all these years, decades, compassion for myself … and for other people. Said beautifully by you, David, perfect grammar or not, healing is not possible without compassion, pure, unpoisoned compassion. For myself first, and what spills for the cup, for others.
What is new to me here is the concept of POISONED COMPASSION and PURE COMPASSION. My cup of compassion still has poison in it. My heart has still poison in it, as I tend to think negatively of people, suspect them, compete with them, not share… the poison is still there.
Thank you, David, well stated.
anitaJuly 26, 2015 at 4:48 pm #80523DavidParticipantThe idea of this life is not to be independent but interdependent. Growing together we obtain better results. Thank you for inspiring me Anita 🙂
Regards from Costa Rica,
Dave
July 26, 2015 at 7:38 pm #80536AnonymousGuestYou are welcome, Dave, and thank you for the same.
regards from the U.S. West Coast:
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