Wei Wu Wei makes it very clear that mind is dreaming this fantasy we (in it) refer to as “reality.” Right now is nothing more substantial than a mind generated dream. If mind is the dreamer of this dream, then truth is absolute: mind is all there is. There is no other source for reality, and “reality” is what mind is dreaming. Most of the dreamers in this dream fill time 1) defending the lie ‘right now’ is real, and not a dream, and that 2) all the dreamers are ‘the people’ they get to portray in this dream. Since everything can only be content in this dream, the dream is always what ‘right now’ is, including ‘the dreamers defending the fiction truth is false.’ Mind dreams the vast majority of the dreamers in this dream busy defending “The Master Lie”, which includes the sum of what the dreamers do in the dream to dismiss the fact it is a dream so they can defend the fiction they are the people they insist they are.
Mind is the dreamer of this dream, including ‘the dreamers,’ and where they are with the fact truth is absolute, somewhere between awake and deep in trance defending “The Master Lie,” which we can abbreviate as TML. Defending TML is “The Main Event” in this dream. Once you are awake in the dream, you know you are always only in the presence of dreamers, displaying the degree to which they defend TML, from some of the time, to all of the time. This is always transparent, but viewing it accurately comes into focus exactly as fast as you wake up in the dream.
Once you wake up, you get to watch how the dreamers fill time in this dream defending TML. Since no dreamer in this dream is, or can be, a person, you get to witness the intensity they bring to their impersonation. You get to witness how vexed they are because …the option to be a person in a dream is zero. No dreamer in this dream is or can ever be a person. This dream is not about people, it’s about how the dreamers in this dream ‘fill time defending TML,’ especially the lie they are the person they insist they are. You get to observe that some of the dreamers show signs of waking up in the dream, while the vast majority are featured devoted to the fiction that what they do will work to prove they are ‘real people,’ outside the dream mind is dreaming. The problem is, the dream has no outside. We can only be in it, reconnecting with that fact, or doing our level best in the dream to discredit that fact. The dream always displays where all the dreamers in the dream are with the truth. Truth is absolute: ‘right now’ is the dream mind is dreaming.
When I work with a client (dreamer), they display how they fill time defending TML. Amnesia obscures the fact this is what they are doing, but the odds are they are willing to play with “new ideas” because they rely on the creation of regular suffering to defend TML. Because the dream is ‘on,’ and there are no people, only dreamers impersonating people, the ‘client’ is often willing to play with “new ideas” because life in the dream includes too much suffering. Besides, if suffering can’t prove we are people, it is always redundant.
Suffering comes from two sources: there is the suffering that goes with defending TML, as if the lie the dreamer is a person is defensible, and then there is the suffering the dreamer relies on in the dream to play the part of a ‘suffering person.’ When you wake up, you realize why “The Victim Parody” is so widespread: nothing works better to bring credence to the lie the dreamer is a person than regular suffering. This represents “The Original Addiction,” or the prototype for all addictions. The dreamer’s motto in the dream takes the form of “I suffer, therefore I am” (a real person). Each ‘client’ displays 1) the level of its attachment to suffering; 2) the kind of suffering it reiterates in the dream, and 3) how reluctant they are to part with suffering, since nothing makes this dream seem more real than regular suffering.
“The Victim Parody (TVP) occupies center stage in this dream because almost all the dreamers agree that suffering is real because it feels real and, therefore, it can’t be content in a dream, along with everything else. The dream features the dreamers in agreement that what makes life real is suffering. We say, for example, we hate suffering, but on closer inspection, what is missing is the fact dreamers can’t do personhood convincingly in this dream without some form of regular suffering. When you interfere with the dreamer’s ‘style of suffering’ you run head long into massive resistance, indicating that a some unconscious level the dreamer knows that the best defense for TML is regular suffering. Waking up brings ‘the seeing of this’ into focus. We love to hate suffering to reinforce the fiction suffering is something real people endure.
Dreamers display how much (and what kind of suffering) they require in this dream to maintain the fiction ‘a suffering someone can pass for a real someone.’ Once you wake up, and you aware of how you rely on suffering to do personhood believably in this dream, every dreamer you meet becomes immediately transparent. Dreamers, as you already know, compete, in the name of victimhood, to do personhood believably in this dream. As we shall see, our ‘style of suffering’ comes out of early trauma in the dream; a time when we converted events in the dream into events we can use ‘in reality’ to play the part of some kind of a victim. What is clear is that dreamers in this dream can’t do personhood convincingly without some form of regular suffering, which explains why we are covetous about parting with our suffering. Nothing makes ‘reality’ more real than our collective contribution to a high level of suffering, involving a ‘suffering self,’ and inflicting it on ‘other selves.’ This makes suffering the center piece in this dream. It serves as ‘the deal clincher.’
The truth is, because right now can only be a mind generated dream, there is no one to have anything wrong with them, because there is no one at all. Eventually, this fact is embraced with laughter, but for the dreamer featured defending TML in this dream, suffering is required to lock in the idea that what makes the dreamer a person is that it has something wrong with it. Personhood in the dream is played against the fact there is no one to have anything wrong with them. Waking up includes identifying what a dreamer keeps in place to prolong the fiction it has something wrong with it. “The Victim Parody (TVP)” includes the sum of what the dreamer keeps in place as proof that it is a person because it is ‘damaged,’ has ‘flaws,’ and endless ‘short comings,’ and it is always ‘trying to regain its sense of ‘well being.’ While most of us assemble the story ‘something is wrong with us’ in early childhood, we can always embellish our victim parody at any point in the dream. No dreamer wants to know that people don’t exist to have a childhood, if the dream is the context for ‘everything.’ Childhood is kept in place as real by keeping it in place as ‘the origin of our suffering.’ Once a dreamer locks into its story, it lives in its story to defend TML. The dream reflects the parody every dreamer occupies to prolong the fiction it is a real, less than okay person. Mind is dreaming “The Grand Parody” because ‘everything’ is always, only, content in “The Mind Show” (TMS) that is manifesting from one second to the next.
TMS is always ‘on,’ featuring ‘the dreamers;’ where they are with the truth in the dream, and how they fill time in the dream defending TML, mostly relying on regular suffering to maintain the fiction the dreamer is a real, less than okay person. This is “the Main Event” in this dream. It is being dreamed by mind; it doesn’t involve people, it only involves how mind features the dreamers relying on TVP to defend the fiction ‘a suffering someone is a real someone.‘ Since every person can only be a dreamer in this dream, every dreamer is eligible to wake up in this dream. Waking up involves identifying how mind features you relying on some form of regular suffering to defend the fiction you are a real, less than okay person. This is a mind generated parody because this dream can’t include people. Nothing ‘going on’ has, or ever had, anything to do with people. History, for example, is a record of how the dreamers played the part of people in TGP mind is dreaming.
In the next installment, I will focus on some of the ‘mechanics’ of how mind dreams this dream. Change, in the absence of people, has nothing to do with people. There are no people to change. The dreamer ‘changes‘ in the dream exactly as fast as it surrenders to the fact it is a dreamer in this dream, busy using some form of suffering to defend the lie it is a person. Once it is clear not even suffering can prove the dreamer is a person, the dreamer’s view of suffering changes, sometimes dramatically. It is ‘the seeing of this’ that opens the door to “The Recovery Process.”
Well done. Keep at it.