Reflections on Tozans's five ranks, part II

The second rank of Tozan corresponds to a state where one'e mind is not calm and thus does not see what is in front of him or her.

The supposition is that which has been seen in dreams, variation of the absolute, one might say, is also in here, the waking life.

Reality, as we know it, is a continuation of dreams, and dreams are a continuation of waking life.

You will be able to know this because that which you are able to do in waking life, you will be able to do it in your dream life.

One restricts the horizon of another. The same can be extrapolated to different lifetimes.

A young man may be drawn to a woman due memories of beautiful times, but in the predominant feelings or thoughts of this time are of nothing. This represents the first stage. He may then look at her in a minute or so and see someone that he does not recognize due in part to his un-calm mind. This represents the second stage. The young man may choose to leave the matter as it is because there is nothing, except vague memories, and there is doubt too, too complex to handle.

Unbeknown to him is that there is a way in the vague memories located within the fringes of predominant emptiness juxtaposed with doubt magnified by his, at times, un-calm mind. Recognizing this constitutes the third rank. It entails acting while perplexed to find a way out of the dust or what Tuzan calls ordinary way of existence.