Note: This is a continuation post from the previous one titled, “A Visit from Orange and Black Snake Self“; but it can be read on its own. Image on right found next to link => Giphy
I had a dream of a lion cub this morning, and as I was exploring the various interpretations, I copied and pasted the ones I resonate with below (which all led me to a priceless treasure like breadcrumbs of joy ^_^):
To dream of cubs denotes new lovers and happy times ahead. A lion is also the symbol of the astrology sign of Leo, so a lion in a dream may symbolize …
Dreaming of a lion cub indicates a new career or plan. If you can take the chance, you will succeed.
Alternatively, a lioness symbolizes hope, victory, tenacity and stamina. Lion Cub or Young Baby Lion. To have a dream about lion cubs means that you may meet a new friend.
www.dreammean.com/c/cub:
Leo, depicted with lion cub under its paw, also represents the Buddha, the reigning world and compassion. Buddha represents the lion’s roar [“lion’s roar” instantly reminded me of an experience I had many years ago shared in post, “The Dream of a Talking Lion & Interconnected Stories“], fearlessly preaching the Dharma. In China, the lion is the courage, energy, strength.
After reading the last dream interpretation above, I came upon a reading titled, “What is Dharma?” by the website Lion’s Roar: Buddhist Wisdom for our Time (though I have no desire to be part of any religion, I like to collect all the gem-like knowledge and wisdom from around this world and beyond).
The following are non-consecutive sections of the above reading which, simply put, reminds me to unconditionally embrace All of interconnected Life (All That Is/The One), the way Divine Mother Goddess does (shared in post, “A Visit from Orange and Black Snake Self“):
According to Reginald A. Ray, dharma is a fascinating term because it integrates several levels of experience, from our first moment on the path to the achievement of full realization […]
Here, a distinction needs to be made between our concepts of what ordinary reality is, our preconceptions and wishful thinking, and its raw, implacable facticity. Dharma in this second sense is what is so in our lives, whether we like it or not, whether we wish for it or not, whether we expect it or not. Sudden illness, the breakdown of a relationship, and unexpected death are all expressions of the breakthrough of dharma in this sense. But so also are the light that fails to go on when we flip the switch, the unanticipated phone call, the surprising joy of seeing a newborn child. And so is the sudden shock of seeing someone else as more-or less-than we thought.
All such events bring us up short. They reveal just how much we have been locked up a dream of our own making, a dream of who we are and what the world is like. They wake us up, if only for a moment. It is in this sense that the great Tibetan master Atisha tells us that, “All dharma agrees at one point.” All that occurs, when seen in its own light and from its own side (dharma), proclaims the unreality of our fixed notions of ourselves and our world […]
Originally and most essentially, the dharma teachings were the words spoken and sung by the realized ones. Sutras, the words of the Buddha, always begin “Thus have I heard” not “Thus have I read.” In the same way that one could not expect to become a world-class pianist simply by reading piano manuals or a cook simply by reading cookbooks, one must receive the dharma teachings by hearing them from a teacher. To learn the dharma, we must hear the nuances and subtleties; we must experience the eloquence and the flights of those steeped in living understanding and realization […]
As we make a fuller and fuller acquaintance with our lives, we may begin to sense the background of awareness that runs like a thread through all our experience. As our sense of this awareness-known as buddhanature-deepens, we begin to realize that, more than anything else, this is who we most fundamentally are and always have been.
At this point, we have journeyed from seeing that dharma as an interesting book to discovering the eternal dharma as the final truth of our own inherent nature. The entire path, then, is encompassed and summarized in this single word.
See another interpretation of the dream of lion cub (<= click phrase/link) from the reading, “Lion Symbolism & Lion Meaning” from website Universe of Symbolism.
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