They were here

I am very excited because last night I had a very long dream but I do not know the meaning behind it. In fact, nowadays, I tend to forget what my dreams were about, or I cannot remember the entire dream.

In the dream, there were many people and many episodes and scenes involving different people. They were mostly about my family members and aunties and uncles and cousins. The first part of the long dream I could not recall at all now.

Only the brief final part of the dream I could remember. I was with my Grandma entering into a compound, and we were outside a tall slim building. The weather was cool and air crisp. We were about to enter the building when suddenly we heard hushed voices coming from inside of the building, so we stopped on our tracks. People began spilling out of the building. Then He appeared. I saw His Holiness The Dalai Lama appeared at the small door of the building, he was coming out and there were throngs of people behind him. He was smiling so kindly as always, and he kept talking to the people around him as he walked slowly. I did not moved towards him or away from him. I just did not moved. Then He came nearer to me and when he was in front of me, he saw me and smiled at me, all his laugh lines and wrinkles crumpled into a naughty grin. I could only remained frozen and bowed my head as he walked past me.

Then another commotion began. Someone was coming out of the building as well. This time I saw my guru, His Eminence Lama Zopa Rinpoche with an entourage of many people. Rinpoche was also smiling broadly but walking fast, as if trying to catch up with His Holiness. And when he passed me, he reached out his hand and cupped my right cheek briefly and in a second, he was gone.

I was without any emotion, just stood there, paralysed by their appearance. When the people were gone, the surrounding was all quiet and calm again. I walked into the building with my Grandma. Then I saw my 4th aunt, I asked her to take a photo of my Grandma and me. I was trying to pose with my Grandma as my 4th aunt fiddled with the huge complicated camera, still trying to take the photo. Then suddenly I woke up, and it was morning. Time to go for the pujas.

This was the second time I dreamt of His Holiness Dalai Lama, and the umpteen times I dreamt of my guru, Lama Zopa Rinpoche. May they have a long life so as to benefit many more countless sentient beings.

"For as long as space endures
And for as long as living beings remain,
Until then may I too abide
To dispel the misery of the world."- Shantideva