Is life just a dream?
The text "Is life only a dream?" appeared on 3.4.2020 on my blog, here it goes to the original click.
Especially to this text I have received many letters, also there are readers (virtual students), who always thematize this text, because it occupies them very much. Now a reader has revised this text and added his own remarks, which is why I publish his copy here (uncommented).
Is life only a dream? (With comments from the reader Deniz U.)
Is life only a dream?
Can Shaolin Rainer be trusted?
Could it be that life is just a dream? Thoughts trapped in darkness.
Could we wake up from the dream? Why do we not realize that we are asleep?
Significant Buddhist texts suggest this. But does it make sense to you?
Important Chan masters repeatedly point to the surreality of thought. The Anatman teaching of Buddha makes sense.
It raises the question, "Who am I"?
Where do I find light?
"Is this my body or am I my body"? Illusory words?
And if it is "my body", where am I? Not in the light, but why not?
Really these questions will understand only people who are "awakened", therefore they blow like the wind.
Because they know the reality, not the dream that we perceive as reality. We need to connect with the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha.
Life is like a "sitcom," a projection of your own mind. Deep inside you know it.
The script and actors are set, episode after episode is shot. Unfortunately, compassion and wisdom are missing.
Love, hate, greed and delusion are the usual ingredients of a good television show. Without the eightfold path, it has no level.
Our life is written, we can do little or nothing about it. Only through Buddha's teaching, so try it and you will be surprised. And later you will enjoy the pathless path.
Many things we can enjoy (like horror movies) because we know they are not real. For the truth we are still unfortunately blind.
We feel the same way with fears, enemy images and worries, until we realize that these are also fake, then finally we are "above it". Therefore, your Bodhisattwa makes vows and you get blessings like the Boddhisattwa brothers.
In my dream I am "everything", basically I see only myself, in every situation. Like action and re-action only an illusion. Only when I wake up from the dream, I experience reality. Truth liberates.
When and how do I know that I am no longer dreaming?
When is enlightenment your purpose?
When you live in the moment and no longer in your own world. Recognize the surreality of the world. When the mind no longer holds you captive, when the thought is released from the "thought carousel" and when your consciousness no longer wanders in the labyrinth. Worries and things that keep us under stress fall away from us, then I have arrived in reality, then I have accepted my Buddha nature. Finally see behind the scenes. Please learn the Shaolin knowledge.
So there are no enemies outside of me, what I experience as an enemy image is the projection of my own mind. But remember, it is not simple.

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