It was riveting. It felt so real, visceral, vivid…all the people and places in the dream felt very real…my emotions in it certainly felt real, right there in my body…my thoughts were just as they happen in walking life (I’ll explain later why I call it ‘walking’ life)…In fact, when I awoke, I wanted to dwell on that dream, make sure I remembered every bit of it…I was sure it had something to tell me…
Friends, this life that we’re living, this life that we are so certain is ‘real’, this life whose dramas are ongoing, whose actors (our personal/egoic ‘I’ being the main one) are so engaging, this life which feels so real to us, which is so riveting, we can hardly take our minds off it…this life is…
a dream.
One from which we don’t wake up quite as regularly as we do from our nightly dreams…unless…we make it a habit to stay awake…In other words,
to be mindful…to stop engaging and investing in the dramas but, as with the dream that I had, to use all the dramas of this life, all our stories, all our experiences to become more aware of our dream state and our dream habit…
This life, which I call ‘walking life’ is just that…we are sleep walking…except for the few brief moments when we care to be mindful…in those few moments, we are awake.
Ludwig Witgenstein, the philosopher, said:
We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
Well, some of us have come to realize that we are dreaming. Many have not. And even those of us who have come to this realization are prone to forgetfulness, to sleepiness, as we allow the dramas of this world, this ‘mortal hallucination’ (as A Course in Miracles refers to it) to sweep us away in its soporofic currents.
Friends, if you really want to bring an end to your suffering, however small or large it may loom in your life, if you want to relieve the world of its suffering, STAY AWAKE. Make being awake a habit. Make it non-negotiable.
Lovingly 
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