Dreaming Life

What we generally call life is actually a dream, as it is just a movement of Consciousness. What we are is Pure Consciousness that manifests itself in Life as all the characters that you meet, all the places we visit, all the events etc. In other words, as in a dream you create everything and you are everything, so Life is your Dream. Also dream that happens during the night it is just another way through which Consciousness manifests itself. In the night-dream this manifestation happens differently because the body-mind is functioning differently ( being the body-mind the tool through which you experience life). In the night-dream Consciousness simply experiences itself in another way.

When during the night we become conscious that we are dreaming - when we are aware that what is happening is not real but just something that we are creating - we are in what we could call a "lucid dream".
Lucid dreaming is really similar to a spiritual awakening, that is actually happening during the night-dream. You could say that if you awaken in your "day-dream", life, than Enlightenment happens. Enlightenment is really just the realization to be pure Consciousness, that lives through all form and manifests the so called reality out of its own being. It is the very simple recognition of you really are.

What happens in our "day-dream", Life, is happening out of this Consciousness, our true nature, and might or might not coincide with what "we", as dream-characters, would like. "We" are just part and parcel of the created dream, and therefore as such we have no power whatsoever over the dream. For what we really are, as Consciousness, we are infact the MasterDreamer.

As long as there is unconsciousness, in other words not knowing of what we are, there will be suffering. There will be the belief to be something that we are not, a minute part of the dream, instead that the Dreamer itself.

If it is known that whatever the body-mind is doing happens because it is part of the dream of life, where all your sense of guilr, shame and anxiety will go? All these things have their own root in the ignorance and identification with the body-mind.

The point is that you have no control over the dream: it happens, that's it. The dream of life is happening not as an emanation of what you do, but of what you ARE. Therefore is not the result of an act of will of the imaginary individual, but it is an emanation of your Being.
If in Conscisouness there will be fear and sense of separation then this will be manifested in the dream, that will be more similar to a nightmare.

As you don't choose beforehand what to dream during the night - but the night-dream expresses what is going on in your consciousness - so at this level what is going on is an emanation of our Consciousness.
There is actually no need to have any control over the dream, because the Dream IS you: as body mind, you never ha any control, because you are just a dream-object, a product of the dream. When this understanding happens - that as apparent individual we have no control - there is also a letting go that occours: we surrender our will in the hands of the Divine and in that very instant we realize that we ARE that Divine, that since always was guiding ourselves Home.

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shakti