The Teacher Laughs

1. Secret Taiji Lesson

The end of a dream.

I am in an unfamiliar city, light, hilly. On top of a hill is a building, which I enter from the side, there is a hall, training hall, outside is a garden, everything is peaceful. Holiday, maybe this is abroad.

In another part of the dream I walked around the building, wooden. Everything is simple and relaxed.

When I enter the hall, people are training taiji and Pake is teaching, which is a surprised, because he had promised not to teach anymore. So I caught him by surprise. I see people here I know, such as Svdb, but possibly also Joja and Anle. And maybe Chsn. When I get over the first shock of not being invited, I just join, there's nothing else to do, and I enjoy it, this one more chance to practice with Pake.

We do loosening exercise one and two and then he finishes the class. People start to leave, and I start buttoning up my pants. As a matter of fact I've been training half naked, but this was part of the intention, other people trained naked as well. At this point I am in the right upper corner, which is furthest of the exit. In the meanwhile I see people leaving and saying goodbyes, and I am preparing to catch Pake to say goodbye. That moment is the most difficult. But for now I am putting on my jeans, but it is a bit too small, as if I've grown, or gotten a bit of a belly. I try anyway, it must work.

And before I get the chance to say goodbye, Pake laughs as if he has just made a joke and continues the class with the people who are still there, that is about one third of the crowd. Again I feel cheated, but I join. We do the third loosening exercise. After that it is really finished.

2. Crack the Chinese Egg

(From notes). Space. I caught something. Cousin P is there, home, daddy, waiting.

Vessel. This is still Pake. In the middle of the room is a vessel which is round and looks like an egg, it is big, like a chest for clothes. It is red, and the lid is made of squares, and between the squares are grooves. The point is to get this thing open. So I set myself to it and I smash the box with a hammer. Then I see what needs to be done and I smash the hammer on the grooves, on the cracks, because those are the weakest points. In fact where four squares come together is formed a cross of grooves, the centre of that cross is the weakest spot, I smash on all cross centres and yes, after a while it starts to crack and then it cracks open completely from side to side, from left to right, regardless of how I smashed it. I don't have to hammer more than three times.

3. Orangutang portrait

In one of the dreams must have been Kula.

There was also a dream about apes, especially oranotans, and maybe other animals, but the orangutans were also on photographs and someone kept talking about them.