Illusory Dream

We create our dreams each night. They vanish upon our awakening. We create our waking life too. This is the true nature of reality.

We take ordinary life seriously. We think of our waking life as concrete and real and our dream life as merely a dream. Our dream life is a creation of our thoughts, emotions, unconscious and subconscious energies playing out on the screen of our awareness.

Our waking life is also a manifestation of our attitudes, perspectives and energy. Both dreams and waking life are reflections of our mind. They are an expression of what we are attached to and think of as real. They simply reveal our fixed and rigid view points and the energy associated with them.
Like a dream, we project onto life what we believe rather than experiencing it as it is: illusory, dream like and temporary, like a water moon. Dreams and waking life are out picturings of our habits of thought formed from the information we receive through our five physical senses.

When you have a bad dream and become frightened, what do you usually do? Most of us try to wake ourselves up. We remind ourselves that the dream is not real.

Our waking life is similarly "not real". We need to remind ourselves and awaken to this truth. We’ve created our life from the fabric of our own mind stream. Our misconceptions of life, what it is and how it operates, is because we do not know and directly experience the true nature of reality. We identify so strongly with our thoughts, ideas and a sense of self that we have forgotten our experiences are a reflection of our mental interpretations.

So how do we "wake up"? We can wake up when we regain the awareness and remembrance that our waking life is illusory, dream like; no more real or fixed then our dream state.

When something happens to you in your waking life see if you can own and realize your mental interpretations and projections. Open to the idea and realization that life is fluid, energetic and illusory. Remember that life is all a projection of your mind and, like a dream, changes moment to moment. The old saying you can never step in the same river twice is an example of this teaching. When we deeply see and understand this truth we will wake up and experience the true nature of our reality.

Our experiences appear as solid and real because we have fallen asleep. We feel secure when we plaster our fixed perceptions onto life. True reality is constantly shifting and changing, alive, luminous and empty. This is also the true nature of who we are beyond our sense of self. Align yourself with your true nature and recapture the fluid, energetic and ever-changing relationship with life.

May we wake up from our slumber and once again be in direct experience with reality.

Love,
Lisa

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