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Duality fills reality with suffering because the most effective defense for the fiction the self is real, is suffering. If the self doesn’t exist, and reality provides the setting in which the dreamers in this dream defend the fiction it does exist, then suffering is the price the dreamer pays for defending a fiction as if it is a fact. If anything is ‘astonishing’ in this dream, it is how much suffering the dreamer is willing to endure in defense of the lie the self will prove it is a ‘real person’ in this dream. In the extreme, obviously, ‘we’ are willing to die for the lie the self is real. Defending the lie the self is real is “The Main Event” in this dream.

If everything can only be content in this dream, then defending the lie the self is real defines how the dreamers fill time in the dream. Once this comes into focus, you are awake enough to observe the connection between degree of duality, determination to prove the self is real, and degree of suffering. In my work, I get to witness the full range of duality, from almost none, to the total commitment to the fiction it is real. The more the dreamer defends the lie the

self is real, the more it suffers. Suffering goes with defending the lie the self is separate from everyone and everything. If is is true, ONENESS is the truth, then there is no such thing as separation, and the defense of a fiction as a fact shows up as suffering.

If truth includes the fact ‘right now’ is only a mind generated dream, then the present is all there is. ‘Right now’ includes whatever mind is dreaming as content in this dream. Hear that train whistle in the distance? It’s content in the dream. No train exists to make a

single sound. There is no train to make a sound. If the present is what mind is dreaming, then the present includes ‘the train making that sound.’

The present includes everything mind is dreaming, including ‘you’ and where mind features you with that fact in the present, somewhere between one with the fact everything in the present is what mind is dreaming, including where you are in the dream with that fact.

If the present is the dream mind is dreaming, then the present can’t include people, only dreamers in the dream, displaying where they are in the dream with the fact they are dreamers in the dream mind is dreaming.

When the dream features you awake in the dream, you are a dreamer in the dream featured flat with the fact you are a dreamer in the dream, and not a person in a ‘real reality’ outside the dream. If the present is the dream mind is dreaming, then everything can only be content in the dream mind is dreaming, including where all the dreamers in the dream are with that fact.

'Waking up' includes the shift from the fiction the ego

(self) is real, to the realization it is what 'we' get to defend as real in this fantasy called “reality.” If the ego can't prove we are who we imPERSONate, then the question is, who exists to find that out? In the absence of people, being defended with the imaginary ego, it would have to be our old friend 'the dreamer' in this dream. Waking up includes the realization only 'the dreamer' in the dream exists to wake up, and only when the dream features that happening in the dream.

If mind is all there is, then right now is the dream mind is dreaming, featuring as “The Main Event” the imaginary ego defending the fiction it is a 'real person' in this dream. If mind is all there is, then 'reality' provides the setting for the imaginary ego to prolong the fiction it not only exists as a 'real person,' but suffering will prove it. If all of this can only be content in this dream mind is dreaming, then mind is dreaming 'the dreamers' creating duality as the prerequisite to suffering, since separation from that which is dreaming this dream isn't possible. The dream features all the ways the

imaginary ego creates duality, or the fiction of separation, to use suffering to do PERSONhood believably.

If mind is ultimate subject, as Wei Wu Wei reminds us over and and over again, then mind is what 'right now' is, in its entirety. This means 'right now' is what mind is dreaming. If this includes 'everything,' then noting has any reality other than content in the dream mind is dreaming. Truth in other words is absolute. There isn't mind dreaming this, and something else 'going on' outside of this. If truth is absolute, then the dream mind is dreaming includes 'us creating duality to defend the fiction we exist outside of the dream mind is dreaming.' The dream includes this as content in the dream, which means this can only be what the dreamers in this dream are doing in the dream mind is dreaming.

If everything can only be content in this mind generated dream, then the question of who is, or isn't “ignorant” isn't relevant. There is no one to be ignorant. The

dream includes dreamers who are 1) flat with the fact right now is the dream mind is dreaming, so nothing 'going on' has, or ever had, anything to do with people, and dreamers featured in the dream 2) creating duality to defend the fiction they exist outside the dream mind is dreaming. The dreamer's presentation in the dream falls somewhere between awake, and one with the truth, and deep in trance, filling time relying on the creation of duality to defend “The Master Lie,” that THIS is real, and not the dream mind is dreaming, and all the dreamers in the dream are the people they are imPERSONating in the dream.