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THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF YOUR CONFUSION AND COMPLAINTS ABOUT LIFE IS THAT YOU TAKE OTHER PEOPLE’S DREAMS TO BE REAL.
IN YOUR HEAD, YOU GET INVOLVED -&-ENTANGLED IN THINGS OTHER PEOPLE SAY.
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DO YOU — DO YOU PERSONALLY SEE THAT, EVERY TIME YOU PICK LIP A BOOK, GO TO A MOVIE,
TURN ON TV, LOG ON TO THE WEB, THAT YOU ARE INTENTIONALLY INVITING OTHER PEOPLE’S
DREAMS INTO YOUR HEAD — INTO YOUR ALREADY PRESENT, DREAM WORLD?!
IT’S: TRACKING MUD INTO AN ALREADY DIRTY HOUSE:
POURING GASOLINE ONTO AN ALREADY RAGING FIRE..
‘COURSE ONCE YOU GET REALLY GOOD AT THIS, YOU REALIZE THAT EVERY TIME’ YOU “THINK”, (AS CIVILIANS CALL IT), THE END RESULT IS THE SAME ?!
CONSIDER THE STRENGTH & RESILIENCY OF THE SITUATION:
EVEN WHEN YOU BELIEVE YOU ARE PROPERLY ENGAGED IN THE
STUDY OF “DREAMS” — YOU’RE DREAMING.
SIMPLY PUT: AT THIS & EVERY INSTANT, YOU EITHER “SEE WHAT’S GOING ON”,
OR ELSE YOU DO NOT:
ULTIMATELY IN THIS MATTER THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS, “PARTIAL SEEING”,
(LIKE WITH ONE GOOD EYE, AND ONE NOT SO GOOD),
IT’S SEEING “ALL” — OR NOTHING AT ALL
BUT IF YOU SIMPLY TURN INWARD RIGHT NOW AT LOOK WITH BOTH EYES CLEAR,
THE ENTIRE AFFAIR IS REVEALED TO BE NOTHING MORE THAN DREAMS.
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ADAM, (ONCE HE REALIZED WHAT WAS HAPPENING), WAS SO-0-0 ASHAMED OF HIS DREAMING THAT HE ORIGINATED THE CUSTOM OF REFERRING TO IT AS, “THINKING”.
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A MAN VISITING A MONASTERY ASKED A MONK: “HOW DO YOU SPEND YOUR DAYS?”
AND HE REPLIED: “I TEND THE CATTLE.”, AND THE MAN INQUIRED:”IN WHAT WAY?”, “WHEREVER THEY GO, I DO NOT FOLLOW.”, HE ANSWERED.
YOU DREAM….BUDDHA DREAMS….BUDDHA KNOWS THAT HE DREAMS’
WHEN WILL YOU?
WHENEVER A MAN, (EVEN A MYSTIC), WRITES SUCH WORDS AS:
“YOU DREAM….BUDDHA DREAMS….”, THE AUTHOR OF THE WORDS — DREAMS.
PART OF WHAT’S TRICKY TO FINALLY REALIZE IS THAT EVEN THOUGH YOU CAN BE WRITING, THINKING, OR SPEAKING ABOUT, “FREEDOM FROM DREAMS”,
WHILE YOU’RE DOING SO — YOU’RE DREAMING …(BE IT YOU OR BUDDHA.)
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THOSE WHO SAY THEY ARE SEEKING “ENLIGHTENMENT” ARE IN FACT, SEEKING “PEACE OF MIND” AND WHILE EVERYONE ELSE, (IF ASKED), WILL AGREE THAT THIS IS THEIR AIM ALSO,
THOSE WHO CALL THEIR GOAL, “ENLIGHTENMENT” HAVE AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CONCEPT OF THE TERM, “PEACE OF MIND”.
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THERE ARE TWO FORMS OF YOUR DELUSION & CONFUSION:
ONE IS TAKING YOUR OWN DREAMS TO BE REAL,
AND THE SECOND IS: TAKING OTHER PEOPLE’S DREAMS, (AS THEY’RE EXPRESSED), TO BE REAL ALSO.
TO BECOME CLEARLY AWARE OF THIS IS TO:
GIVE UP CHASING FLIES FROM YOUR HOUSE AND TO GO LIVE OUT OF DOORS.
IT IS TO CEASE FRETTING OVER LEAKING FAUCETS & TO TURN THE WATER OFF AT THE STREET IT IS TO NO LONGER COMPLAIN ABOUT WHAT’S ON TV, BUT TO QUIT WATCHING.
IF YOU GIVE ANY NOTICE TO YOUR DREAMS, YOU AND THE DREAMS REMAIN AS ONE.
THE OBVIOUS WAY TO HANDLE THE SITUATION: SIMPLY: BE AWARE THAT MAN DREAMS -THEN GIVE THEM THE ATTENTION THAT EVERYONE KNOWS DREAMS DESERVE.
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TIME SURE FLIES ….WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING IMAGINARILY “TO DO” -…(IT CAN CAN ALSO BE STRETCHED OUT JUST AS FAR AS YOU’D LIKE). ALL-IN-ALL: IT’S SURPRISINGLY OBVIOUS JUST HOW MUCH CAN HAPPEN — WHEN YOU’RE NOT IMMERSED IN DREAMING.
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, MANY INVOLVED WITH THIS ACTIVITY HAVE INSISTED THAT YOU MUS*
“CONTROL”, OR CORRECT — “WRONG THINKING”, BUT I SAY TO YOU:
ALL THAT IS NECESSARY IS TO SEE THAT ALL “THINKING” IS NOTHING BUT DREAMING, AND ONCE YOU REALIZE THIS, YOU WILL NATURALLY ASSUME THE ATTITUDE PROPER TOWARD THIS UN-REAL, MEANINGLESS WORLD —
….EVEN WHEN PRESENT DURING THE DAY LIGHT HOURS.
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ALLOWING THE EXTERNAL WORLD INTO YOUR HEAD IS THE ORIGIN OF ALL DREAMING. …AND CONTINUES TO BE THE GAS DEPOT, FUELING ALL YOUR DREAMS.
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CURING YOUR VISUAL PROBLEMS IS EASY — EITHER: GET GLASSES,OR — WRITE LARGER.
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IN DREAMING — YOU ALWAYS, “EAT TOO MUCH”, NO MATTER WHETHER IT BE 50 DREAMS, OR 21.
A “FULL INNER WORLD” WILL ALWAYS BE AN ‘OVER-STUFFED-ONE”.
YOU CAN’T JUST GO ON A “DREAMING DIET”, YOU’VE GOT TO GIVE IT UP COMPLETELY.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “ROUTINE HEAD ACTIVITY” & THE GOAL YOU SEEK IS THE SAME AS BETWEEN, “WAR AND PEACE” —
A MATTER OF, “ALL OR NOTHING” …”IT IS, OR IT ISN’T”
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THERE ARE A COUPLE OF WAYS AT LOOKING AT THE MATTER OF, “DOING”:
YOUR “NATURE” IS IN CHARGE OF THE “DOING” NEEDED TO STAY ALIVE, (WHICH IS REAL DOING)
AND YOUR “DREAMS” HAVE WHAT THEY CONSIDER TO BE THEIR AREA OF DOING,
(WHICH IS ILLUSIONARY AND NO REAL DOING AT ALL).
SO! — IN THE FIRST INSTANCE YOU ACTUALLY HAVE, “SOMETHING,TO DO.”,
WHILE IN THE SECOND, YOU HAVE, IN FACT, “NOTHING,
TO ACTUALLY — ‘DO’!”
….(DON’T GET THE TWO CONFUSED.)
LOOK INSIDE YOURSELF AND RECOGNIZE THIS PLAIN FACT:
THERE IS NO WAY TO “BENEFICIALLY” DREAM ANYTHING ABOUT– DREAMING.
THERE IS NOTHING USEFUL YOU CAN INTRODUCE INTO DREAMING, NOTHING PROFITABLE YOU CAN TAKE FROM IT,
AND NO GAINFUL WAY BY WHICH,
WHAT YOU DREAM CAN BE, RE-ARRANGED”, OR, “RE-STRUCTURED”.
ALL THAT YOU NEED DO — ALL YOU CAN DO IS TO SIMPLY REALIZE THAT, “MAN DREAMS” , AND THAT HIS DAY TIME DREAMS ARE NO DIFFERENT, AND OF NO MORE SIGNIFICANCE THAN HIS NIGHT TIME ONES.
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WHEN YOU’RE DREAMING — YOU’RE NOT “AT HOME”, ….AND THE FEW
DO-0-0 SO
WANT TO GET BACK HOME.
SO IS NOT THE SOLUTION MORE THAN OBVIOUS ?