WAKING SLEEP

WAKING SLEEP! 

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"Of course we live in one world. Only I see it as it is, while you don’t. You see yourself in the world, while I see the world in myself. To you, you are born and die, while to me, the world appears and disappears. Our world is real, but your view of it, is not.” -- Nisargadatta maharaj.

Is the dream real? In the dream... Whatever you have done is yours? Can you claim that all? Will you be punished for that all?

...As long as we keep dreaming everything will be 'as real'. But the moment we are awake it becomes 'as though real' -The trees, moon, spouse, police, vehicles, you, me, he, she, they, our beloved...all get vanished! Everything appeared, gave the experience and disappeared! We may call as..all got destructed or we may call as... all, including we, are dead!

Are we really dead? 

-NO! We are awake! 

...And therefore, The insight is -- we don't really exist -- we are not born -- it is not real -- it is 'as though real' -- it is the appearance -- it is transformative!

~Everything in this world is as movie or dream. So.. live simply..flow naturally...move humbly and love unconditionally. In order to move forward and be free to love unconditionally, we must let go of pain from the past and forgive those who caused it (including ourselves)."

~Every sleep is a 'as though death' and every waking is a 'as though birth'. Life renews itself everyday but we are so stuck in routine that we don't notice it. One for whom a new day brings no fresh life has not truly awakened. And thus, his/her life is nothing but a 'waking sleep'. The body is false, And so are its fears, Heaven and hell, freedom and bondage...It is all invention. What can they matter to us? We think we need more knowledge when in reality, what we need is to implement the knowledge that we already possess.

We don't lack the knowledge of what to do but we lack the WILL to do it. The spiritual teacher can give us all the knowledge but it will be useless, unless we have the WILL to implement them. The spiritual teacher cannot transfer WILL, they can only transmit knowledge. Serious self development is possible only if we, ourselves want it. External motivation becomes insufficient and difficult as long as our Internal motivation is lacking. And so, if we have internally strong, unshakable, unwavering WILL, then, we can easily be truly awakened from the 'waking sleep'.