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December 2008 
Long in the Tooth
doolang
I had a vision.
I stood at a sink looking into a mirror but i did not see myself. Something in my mouth was bothering me. I was alone i did not speak. There was no sound except slow steady breathing. I reached into my mouth and effortlessly and painlessly pulled a huge tooth size of a macadamia nut from the rotting flesh and bone where it resided. The flesh clung to the tooth, which i laid on the edge of the sink. The tooth was whitish, but no longer sharp having been rounded at the tip by overuse. I reached into my mouth and pulled out another tooth equal in size though less bright than the first. Like the first the rotten flesh and bone came with the tooth, effortlessly, painlessly. I saw the two teeth lying on the edge of the sink, a curled mess of rotting flesh and ivory, looking curiously like yin and yang. I felt purified. I looked in the mirror and everything vanished. There was nothing it was peaceful and still. I awoke peaceful in my bed.
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that’s an interesting one. what do you make of it? or do you just enjoy it and not analyze?
i've been thinking about it…I have some ideas, i'm still sitting with it…lots of symbolism, the basin, the well from which we all drink, in the vision i did not rinse and spit into the well, and i set the teeth to the side away from the well. once they were removed there was a sense of purification, no need to do anything further. the two teeth a duality, the yin, yang polarity possibly, white teeth with dark flesh. it was painless and effortless they just came out, they were ready to come out, they were so large that they filled my mouth, i didn't talk but i don't think i could have, it was a very silent vision, just breathing, there's the mirror reflecting nothing the first time and then everything vanishing on the second glance at it. i actually didn't see the mirror, i looked into it and didn't see me, instead i saw through the mirror it was actually all these points of light spread out like stars and when i looked the second time the room, the basin and me vanished but there were stars, points of light everywhere and i was floating in a sea of lights. there was never a sense of loss or disgust or grossness. it was just what it is. calm throughout.
seems like it's saying that letting go of the duality, a myth that has gotten us where we are and has served it's purpose and is in decay, will purify the well from which we all drink and we will heal, effortlessly and painlessly and be returned to we.
wow. i love it. i'm off to become more onelike at yoga now. I've really enjoyed reading your post and your follow up comments. thanks.
What then Darin? what THEN!? You were floating in a sea of lights. Were you one of the points of light? I am sooo excited to “see” you have had this experience. I have had a very similar experience during a meditation. For me it was one of those life changing experiences. It was the culmination of months of intense desire to acheive a state of Quiet Mind through meditation. Thankfully though I didn't lose any teeth during my experience :-)
what then? just bliss…still bliss…..