Once it is clear right now is the dream mind is dreaming, you get to identify the lies dreamers reiterate in this charade to defend the lie they are people, starting with you. Since no dreamer exists outside the dream mind is dreaming, the defense of duality is the only lie there is. Mind is dreaming this charade, featuring the dreamers defending the lie they exist as ‘real people’ outside the dream mind is dreaming. Nothing exists outside the dream mind is dreaming if the dream mind is dreaming can only be what ‘right now’ is.
Truth begins and ends with mind. Mind is all there is, and it is dreaming this charade called “reality,” featuring how the dreamers use the invented self to defend the lie they exist as ‘real people’ outside the dream mind is dreaming. In this charade, this is “The Dreamer’s Dilemma” because there is no one to have a self, so what the dreamers defend in the dream is the lie the self is real. Defending a fiction as if it is a fact underscores why reality is a charade. When you wake up, you get to witness how you fill time engaged in the impossible task of defending a fiction as if it is a fact. The seeing of this explains the origin of comedy. Defending a fiction as if it is a fact is what makes all of us funny.
Most of my clients engage in “The Recovery Process” because their life includes suffering, and they wonder if this can be modified. What they don’t know, at least not consciously, is that suffering is rampant everywhere in the world (this dream) because it is the ultimate defense of the lie the self is real. Because not even suffering can prove the self is real, life in the dream features the reiteration of suffering, based on the fiction suffering will eventually prove the self is real.
Because right now can only be the dream mind is dreaming, there is no one to have any kind of a self, so suffering provides the extreme defense of the lie ‘a damaged self will qualify as a real self.’ When suffering fades, the lie the self is real is challenged by the fact there is no one to have one. This sets up a cycle of fade/refresh the lie the self exists. The lie the dreamer in the dream is a person rides on the lie ‘a suffering self is a real self.’ Irony reveals dreamers dread truth more than the suffering they rely on to defend the lie the self is real. The more I engage in this work, the more obvious it becomes that defending the lie the self is real is job one in reality.
Mind is dreaming this dream called “reality,” featuring how the dreamers fill time defending the lie the self is real to defend the lie dreamers exist as ‘real people’ outside the dream mind is dreaming. When a dreamer wakes up, it retrieves the fact it is a dreamer in this dream, featured ‘trying to prove the self is real,’ usually with some level of suffering. Once this comes into focus, everyone in the dream becomes transparent because they are dreamers defending the lie ‘a suffering self is a real self.’ The next realization is that ‘defending the lie the self is real’ is “The Main Event” in this dream. Mind is dreaming this charade, featuring the dreamer relying on some level of suffering to defend the lie the self is real.
There is no one to be present in the present. “Reality” is the context for this charade in which the dreamers use their personhood skit to play the part of ‘real,’ usually, ‘not okay people.’ Suffering is required to defend the lie a victim is a ‘real person.’ If right now can only be the dream mind is dreaming, there is no one to be anything, including a ‘victim.‘ What works to defend the lie dreamers are ‘real victims’ is ‘awfulization,’ or reiterated suffering. The dream features the fiction that keeping life awful, due to reiterated suffering, will prove truth is false. Reality displays the level of awfulization dreamers create in this charade to defend the lie ‘a victim is a real person.’ It’s everywhere! It is “The Main Event” in ‘our reality.’
Common sense says someone would be delighted to eliminate suffering from their life, right? Not true! If suffering defends the lie a victim is a real person, then suffering is a requirement in this charade to sustain the fiction reality is real. What a dreamer realizes, in the process of waking up, is that without some level of suffering, no dreamer can defend the lie the self is real? Again, we hate suffering, but what we hate more in this dream is truth. In this dream, truth is ‘the enemy’ of the lie the self will successfully prove the dreamer is a ‘real person.’
The dream mind is dreaming features the problems the dreamers endure in defense of the lie the self is real to sustain the fiction ‘right now’ is real and not a mind generated dream. The good news, which is viewed as ‘bad news’ by the dreamers in this dream, is that no dreamer, regardless of the level of suffering it relies on to do personhood believably, has any chance to defect from the fact that our status as dreamers in this dream is a fixed fact: everyone you meet in this dream is a dreamer, displaying the level of suffering it relies on to do ‘personhood convincingly’ with the skit it occupies in this charade.
Waking up comes into view once the dreamer realizes it can only be a dreamer in this dream, displaying how it relies on reiterated suffering to defend the lie ‘ a victim is a real person.’ This charade features the skit we occupy to pretend to be present in the dream as a ‘real person.’ The skit the dreamer occupies is its “baggage.” Once this becomes transparent, watching reality objectively is all about watching dreamers interacting as pretend people with variations on “The Victim Parody.” Our baggage can’t cancel the fact right now is a charade, featuring dreamers defending the lie ‘a suffering self is a rea’l self.’ Since the dream can only feature dreamers using skits to defend the lie truth is false, time is the venue for this charade. Reality can’t include people, only dreamers featured ‘defending the lie truth is false’ with their personhood skits. Humor replaces seriousness when this becomes apparent.
Sooner or later, in the life of the dreamer in the dream, the dream will expose the dreamer to the fact control doesn’t exist because, this being a dream, there is no one to have it. It should come as no surprise that most skits defend the lie control exists in order to defend the lie there is some one to have it. The dream is what mind is dreaming, featuring dreamers ‘defending the lie control exists’ to defend the lie the self is real. At the core of this charade is the lie someone actually has control. Skits work to approximate the lie control exists, but the defense of this lie is incredibly fragile. The fragility of this lie is what ‘worry’ is all about in this dream: there is no one to have control, and almost everyone’s charade defends the lie it is a ‘real person’ with a ‘real self’ and control will prove it.
A dreamer wakes up in this dream when it surrenders to the fact right now is the dream mind is dreaming, featuring, as “The Main EVent,” dreamers creating the skits they occupy in the dream to do ‘personhood convincingly.’ Mind is dreaming this charade. This charade has absolutely nothing to do with people. Waking up occurs in the dream when a dreamer retrieves the fact it is being dreamed by mind in this dream, using a skit to defend the lie it is a ‘real person.’ Seeing this is startling, especially when a dreamer realizes how much time it wasted in the dreamer in defense of the lie the self is real.
Liberation happens in the dream when a dreamer accepts the fact a skit can’t prove the self is real. Dreamers are present in the dream when they abandon the fiction the skit they occupy has any chance to prove truth is false. You (the dreamer) minus your skit is set free to be what it is, minus the baggage that services the lie a dreamer can prove the self is real with a skit. Liberation is liberation from the lie suffering can prove the self is real. The best suffering can do is prolong the lie the self is real, which, when you think about it, explains why it plays such a dominant role in ‘our reality.’ Liberation includes the startling realization that suffering is central to this charade. Suffering works to make reality really real in this charade.
Compassion for ‘others’ turns real when you realize ‘others’ are stuck in the fiction reiterated suffering will prove truth is false, as if that’s possible. The truth is, right now is what mind is dreaming, including the lie ‘suffering is sufficient to prove truth is false.’ How can anything in a dream prove that’s not true?
Every client gets to answer the question, “what kind of suffering does it require in this charade to defend the lie truth is false?” Once it’s clear nothing can prove truth is false, suffering is viewed accurately as content in this dream; the lie it will prove truth is false ends, often with a burs of genuine comprehension. Relief is the realization that no skit in a charade has any chance to prove truth is false.
Every dreamer in this dream is eligible to wake up because no matter what it does in this charade to defend the lie it is a ‘real person’ with a ‘real self’,’ its status as a dreamer in this dream is a fixed fact. There is no one to prove they are who they pretend to be.
“Skits work to approximate the lie control exists, but the defense of this lie is incredibly fragile. The fragility of this lie is what ‘worry’ is all about in this dream: there is no one to have control, ”
Beautiful!
Sudha