Posts Tagged ‘Suffering’

« Older Entries

The Art of Personhood

August 15th, 2010

The dream features TAG, or all the ways mind features the dreamers creating duality to pretend they can prove nothing is content in the dream mind is dreaming. This is “The Grand Parody” because mind is dreaming the dreamers feigning defection from mind with the fiction duality is real. If mind is all there is, then there is no duality, only mind including this in “The Grand Parody” to feature how the dreamers fill time in the dream defending the fiction they are ‘real people’ having ‘real lives’ outside the dream mind is dreaming.

When waking up happens in the dream, it is clear right now is the dream mind is dreaming, and that it features how the dreamers create duality to prove mind doesn’t exist, and right now is hardly what mind is dreaming. This is what makes this a parody: no dreamer in the dream is, or can prove it is, any kind of a person, no matter how much it feigns defection from mind. ‘Feigning defection from mind is “The Main Event” in this dream.

Truth becomes transparently obvious once you wake up in the dream. Every dreamer in this dream displays how much duality it creates to defend the fiction it is a real person and not a dreamer in the dream featured ‘trying to prove truth is false.’ Because right now is the dream mind is dreaming, “the option to prove truth is false is zero.” Every dreamer relies on the fiction its brand of duality will work to prove truth is false. Mind includes ‘amnesia’ in the dream so the dreamers can pretend they forgot truth is absolute. How could a dreamer in a dream ever hope to prove it is a person? That’s why time provides the venue for this parody. » Read more: The Art of Personhood

No comments »

Posted in Article Series

Tags:

The Grand Parody Revisited

July 11th, 2010

If mind is the dreamer of this dream, then ‘everything’ can only be content in this dream, including the flow of ‘events’ that manifest in the dream. Form is void if ‘everything’ is nothing more substantial than the flow of events in the “The Grand Parody” mind is dreaming. Mind reveals the architecture of this dream, or how it works, over time. It features ‘physicists’ and other ’scientists’ whose job in the dream is to roll back another layer of how mind dreams ‘everything’ including ‘the expanding universe.’

Mind seems to reveal its ’secrets’ in an orderly way over time. Time is the carrier for the dream mind is dreaming. Two new ‘insights’ arouse the suspicion that “truth” isn’t what we think it is. No one knows how much time will pass before mind discloses how it dreams this dream, and what it takes for the dream to cohere and manifest as apparent ‘objects.’ For centuries, Buddhists in the dream reminded us that ‘waking up’ includes seeing ‘objects’ as content in the dream mind is dreaming, and not ‘things.’ The shift from the lie ‘objects’ are ‘things’ to the truth ‘things’ are ‘objects’ in the dream mind is dreaming can happen in the blink of an eye, but as a rule amnesia works in the dream to regulate the rate at which dreamers retrieve the truth about ‘things.’
» Read more: The Grand Parody Revisited

No comments »

Posted in Article Series

Tags:

The Big Picture

April 26th, 2010

If, as Wei Wu Wei says, right now is the dream mind is dreaming, and that is true, then “history” is what mind is dreaming in the context called ‘time,’ which, allegedly, began with “The Big Bang” some fifteen billion years ago. Mind hatched this dream with “The Big Bang,” featuring ‘the unfolding universe’ as the center piece in this dream. Without the creation of time, there is no space in which ‘events’ could unfold as “history.”

“The Recovery Process” is a dreamer to dreamer encounter in this dream. One of the two must be awake in the dream, or awake enough to discuss the dream objectively, in order to assist the “client” to identify how it treated events in the dream as if they were real events outside of the dream. If the dream is always what right now is, then the dream included the events the dreamer in the dream kept in place as not only ‘real events,’ but the events that damaged a real person. If “history” is the dream mind is dreaming, then the dream included those events, the dreamer in the dream, and the dreamer in the dream using those events in the dream to dismiss truth by pretending it can be replaced with the fiction a real person was damaged by real events.

As Wei Wu Wei says, repeatedly, it’s an all or nothing proposition: either the dream is always what right now is, and ‘everything’ is content in the dream, or nothing is content in a dream. Waking up features the dreamer in the dream retrieving how it keeps old, usually negative, events in the dream real to use reiterated suffering to anchor the fiction a real someone has a real self, and reiterated suffering is sufficient to prolong this fiction in the dream. The so-called “pain body” is what a dreamer in this dream relies on to defend the fiction a real person is ‘damaged.’ If right now is only a mind generated dream, then there is no one to be anything, including ‘damaged.’ The lie the self is real depends on the lie reiterated ‘bad feelings’ are sufficient to prove someone has a ‘damaged self.’ If this is a dream, and there are no people, only dreamers featured defending the fiction they are people, usually with reiterated suffering, then waking up can occur when a dreamer identifies how it converted “negative events” in the dream into the story it occupies that it was damaged by real events in reality.
» Read more: The Big Picture

2 comments »

Posted in Article Series

Tags:

The Dynamics of Suffering

February 21st, 2010

According to Wei Wu Wei, understanding begins and ends with the realization that mind is all there is. There isn’t mind and a thousand other things to understand: there is only mind. Even if you doubt this, the utter simplicity of this ‘assumption’ is attractive. Instead of exploring plurality, or the many, you get to explore the workings of mind, including how it fills time with the fiction called “plurality.”

According to Wei Wu Wei, all roads take us to mind as the ultimate subject of all phenomena. There is no two, no duality, only mind, the one, filling time with a fantasy featuring the concept of two, or mind and ‘not mind,’ as if ‘not mind’ isn’t mind in disguise. Mind is always mind, and mind fills time with a drama we can refer to as ‘not mind,’ which identifies how mind features us as the agent for the ‘not mind’ parody. The goal of ‘waking up’ includes the shift from the fiction of ‘twoness’ (duality) back to the truth of oneness, and how mind features us as the vehicle for the ‘not mind’ parody. The progression is from mind as the source of everything, to how mind features us engaged in the ‘not mind’ parody, and back to the truth that mind is the source of everything.

“The Recovery Process” begins, therefore, with mind, since mind is the author of the ‘not mind’ parody. The question is, how does the absolute, or mind, feature us creating duality to engage in “The Defection Parody (TDP),” which is what the ‘not mind’ parody is all about. How does mind feature us pretending defection from it is possible, when it is all there is?
» Read more: The Dynamics of Suffering

No comments »

Posted in Article Series

Tags:

The Shift

December 30th, 2009

If you read Wei Wu Wei’s books, sooner or later you ask the question, which is stranger, his synthesis of the Buddhist view of reality, or how we fill reality defending the lie truth is false? It is no accident that we are firmly entrenched in our defense of what we insist reality is. Amnesia successfully shields us from the possibility that what we defend as “the truth” is false, and that what amnesia keeps out of mind, successfully, is the truth. What comes into focus is the growing awareness that the defense of what we refer to “the truth” is “The Main Event.” As long as your own amnesia works to obscure what the truth might be, you can’t see that you are part of a vast team devoted to proving truth is false, or doesn’t exist. This is what we do. Time is the venue for TAG, or “The Anti-truth Game.” As truth comes into focus, you identify that TAG is an index of the degree to which someone defends the lie truth is false, from some of the time, to all of the time. The more this becomes transparent, the faster you identify the connection between our ‘mental health’ and where we are with the truth.

If time is the venue for the game of TAG, or the sum and intensity of what we do to pretend we can prove truth is false, then it should follow that those whose presentation indicates they are in sync with truth should display what we refer to as “good mental health.” In fact, low TAG individuals, who don’t fill time ‘at war with truth,’ come across as objective (awake), rational, non delusional and appropriate. Conversely, the high TAG individuals display increasing ‘mental instability,’ the more they fill time defending the fiction it’s possible to prove truth is false.
» Read more: The Shift

1 comment »

Posted in Article Series

Tags: