If flexibility allows you to at least consider that ‘right now’ is a dream in progress, than the center piece in this dream features TAG, “The Anti-Truth Game played by the dreamers in this dream, or the sum of all the ways the dreamers in this dream fill time ‘trying to prove truth as false,’ so they can defend the lie they are people ‘having real lives’ outside this dream. In simple terms: mind is dreaming this charade called “reality” in this dream. “Reality” is the charade mind is dreaming, and that’s all ‘right now’ is, or can ever be.
If ‘right now’ is the charade mind is dreaming, then you can stop pretending people tell lies. Dreamers, to a man, create the lies they require in the dream to maintain the fiction ‘right now’ is real, and not a dream in progress. In this charade, this is “The Main Event.” When you wake up in this charade, you are upstream of amnesia, which makes it possible for the dreamer in the dream to identify the lies it keeps in place to drag out the fiction it is the person it works so hard to portray in this dream. Upstream of amnesia you get to witness the lies all the dreamers reiterate in this charade to do personhood believably. Amnesia works in this charade to scramble truth so the dreamers can pursue the fiction it’s possible to prove truth is false. Comedy includes the fact that truth (mind) provides the context for this charade. Mind dreams “The Main Event,” or the sum of all the ways the dreamers in this charade defend the lie they are the people they insist they are.
If mind is the dreamer of this charade, then everything ‘gong on’ in this charade is a lie, starting with the fiction it’s possible for the dreamers in this charade to prove they are people. Mind dreams ‘us’ defending this lie in this charade. This is what this charade is all about. When you wake up in this charade, you realize, in retrospect, you always knew, at some vague, preconscious level of knowing, that nothing going on was real. The dreamers in this charade can’t defend the lie they are ‘real people in a real reality,’ successfully, and know, simultaneously, that’s not possible in a dream.
The function of amnesia in this dream is to insulate the dreamer from the truth so it can pursue the fiction it can prove truth is false, sooner or later. ‘Trying to prove truth is false’ is “The Main Event” in this charade. TAG accurately displays the degree to which every dreamer fills time ‘trying to prove truth is false,’ from some of the time, to all of the time, and everything in between these two extremes.
When a dreamer wakes up in this charade, it knows ‘right now is the charade mind is dreaming,’ and that none of the dreamers in this dream are the people they insist they are. “Direct seeing,” as Wei Wu Wei reminds us, is seeing ‘right now’ accurately as ‘the charade mind is dreaming’ in this dream. When a dreamer in this dream views “reality” as the charade mind is dreaming, it is awake. It stops defending the lie it’s possible to prove truth is false. Laughter includes the realization that ‘trying to prove truth is false’ can only occur as content in this charade. It is the centerpiece in this dream. To be awake in the dream, upstream of amnesia, is to observe how mind features you ‘trying to prove truth is false.’
The last thing a dreamer wants to retrieve in this charade, is that nothing the dreamer does in this charade has any chance to prove truth is false, not if ‘trying to prove truth is false is false’ can only be content in this mind generated dream. In this charade, the best defense for the lie truth is false, is suffering. In this charade, suffering is sacrosanct, meaning the dreamers in this charade agree to defend the lie that if anything is real, and not content in this dream, than that is suffering. Amnesia works over time to defend the lie suffering is proof ‘a victim is a real person.’ As a rule, dreamers in this charade take suffering off the table: it is what the dreamers count on to maintain the fiction ‘right now’ is real and not a charade in progress. The truth is, nothing works better to defend the lie this charade is real, and not content in a dream, than suffering. This is the dreamer’s trump card in this charade.
Amnesia, understandably, retards the shift from the lie ‘right now’ is real to the truth — right now is the charade mind is dreaming. This is its function in this charade. When you wake up in this charade, you get to witness how each dreamer relies on amnesia to obscure the fact — right now is the charade mind is dreaming. When you wake up, truth comes into focus, in spite of amnesia, that suffering works to defend the lie ‘right now’ is real and not content in a dream. The lie we are the person we insist we are in the dream relies on the lie someone exists to suffer, and, therefore, suffering will preserve the fiction ‘right now’ is real, and not content in this charade. Nothing works better in this charade to prove truth is false than suffering.
People don’t defend the lie ‘suffering is proof the dreamer is a real victim.’ This is what almost all the dreamers do in this charade to defend “The Master Lie”: that ‘this’ is real, and not a dream, and that all the dreamers in this charade are the people they insist they are. As truth slowly comes into focus through the fog of amnesia, what looms into view is the startling realization that suffering is the backbone for this charade. The lie we are the people we insist we are, rides on the lie ‘a suffering someone is a real someone.’ Almost no one in this charade challenges the authenticity of suffering because it manifests as pain, and if there is anything in this charade that works to defend the lie ‘right now’ is real, it is the familiar presence of pain. The outcry would be, “pain is proof right now is real,” but is it? How come you can ‘move it around’ with hypnosis? How come two individuals experiencing the same ‘terrible” event display such dissimilar memories about this “terrible event?” Are events terrible in fact, or does memory keep events real by locking them in place as “terrible events?”
The more I do this work, the more truth comes into focus: dreamers depend on some form of suffering to do ‘personhood believably’ in this charade. Literally, the lie ‘right now’ is real, and not a charade, rides on the lie that what works best to defend “The Master Lie” is that — reiterated suffering will eventually prove truth is false. If truth is absolute —- right now is only a mind generated charade, then — what are the odds suffering will work to prove truth is false?
The dreamers in this charade all suffer from the lie suffering is proof ‘right now’ is real, and not a charade, featuring the dreamers ‘relying on reiterated suffering to defend the lie truth is false.’ The problem for the dreamer is, what’s left if not even reiterated suffering will prove truth is false? As truth comes into focus, some dreamers up the ante by doubling down on suffering, while others, with a look of total astonishment, realize suffering is what they rely on in this charade to defend “The Master Lie.” In this charade, our motto is “I suffer, therefore I am.”
“The Recovery Process” assists a dreamer to confront the fact nothing dreamers do, say, think or feel has any chance in a charade to prove it isn’t one, not even with high levels of reiterated suffering. Truth is astonishing, especially when a dreamer realizes it depends on reiterated suffering in this dream to defend the lie it isn’t one. In this charade, suffering almost works to defend the lie ‘right now’ is real, thanks to pain, but the truth is — ‘defending the lie suffering will prove truth is false’ is “The Main Event” in this charade.
When a dreamer wakes up, it realizes why suffering plays such a dominant role in ‘our reality’: the lie the dreamers are people in this charade relies on the lie suffering is proof this is true, if not today, then perhaps tomorrow. The truth is, no level of suffering can cancel the fact truth is absolute, and for most of the dreamers in this dream, this is “the bitter pill” they get to swallow. In this charade, we hate suffering, but not as much as the fact truth is absolute.
In my work, everything is amazing, especially when viewed through the lens of truth, but nothing is more amazing than the level of suffering dreamers in this charade endure in defense of the lie it’s possible to prove truth is false. The addiction to suffering, in defense of the lie it’s possible to prove truth is false, is the only ‘real’ addiction there is.
In the next installment, I will focus on ‘patterns of suffering’ dreamers display in this dream to ‘wage war with truth,’ based on the lie ‘the war against truth’ is winnable. What dreamers suffer from the most, is the lie suffering will prove truth is false. The charade is on 24/7, and it includes all of us.
