How to Wake Up from this Dream
Written by Jafree
Ozwald
"When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom.
When I look outside and see that I am everything, that is love.
And between these two, my life turns." ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Most of us are
living our daily lives in a dream. It's either a fantasy, a nightmare or
something in between the two. The mind gets wrapped up in creating scenarios
and memories about your past and your future, and you're unknowingly pulled away
from being here in the now. It happens more often than you may realize. If you
have an important appointment a few hours in the future, the mind starts
projecting all sorts of hopes, fears and assumptions about how the experience
will be. The mind is constantly living in a fabricated version of reality that
is generated by an overly active creative imagination.
I want every
spiritual seeker to know that there is nothing
wrong with this experience. It is a natural and necessary step in the awakening
process. In order to have a global spiritual awakening we all have to be deeply
asleep. The purpose of becoming unconscious that we are over identified with
our thoughts, is so that we can experience the freedom of being conscious of
them again. As the dreamer shifts its perspective it makes reality become soooo
amazing and real! Without living in darkness we cannot truly know what its like
to live in the light, and once your mind stops believing its inner picture show
is real, then you will know without a doubt what it means to be awake.
So how will you
know you've truly "awakened from the dream"? There will come a time where you
won't have to try to step back from the dream. You will constantly be living as
the awareness, the presence, the conscious essence that sees the play between
the dream, the dreamer, and the awareness watching the dream. It will be
natural, easy and effortless and feel like you're always bathing in the Light of
your Being. There will no longer be any worry, struggle, or effort to make
reality different than what it is. You've let go of buying into the mind's
ideas about right and wrong, good and bad, and you're simply in love with life
being right here, right now. You are immersed in the simplicity of what is.
There's no thinking machine churning to get ahead of the game, or covering it
with fancy adornments to make it better than what it is. You are submerged in
the essence of pure Being, simply here feeling at peace with what shows up
exactly as it is.
To unravel
oneself from a lifetime of being caught in the web of the mind, the first step
is being aware of the mind's habit of dreaming about the past and future.
Without judgment or emotion, watch how the mind continuously returns to buying
into the illusions it creates. The dreaming machine is much stronger than you
think it is, yet not as powerful as you are. You'll want to get a firm grip on
the mind, and this is done best through practicing meditation. Sitting silent
and still as if you were a crystal statue, bring the mind to a place of deep
inner calm.
Watch the
thoughts pass through the mind, like clouds flying through the vast blue
infinite sky, and you'll begin to realize all those super important thoughts
aren't important at all. The thoughts seem very real, and you've believed them
to be real your entire life, yet where are they really? They are just electrons
flying through your brain, synapses firing electrical impulses in that massive
space in between your ears. Once you are aware
that this is what's happening, you start to pay more attention to what is
real. Once you are able
to still long enough you'll be deeply enjoying the experience of basking in the
glorious love and light of your own being. It can take up to 48 minutes of still
silent sitting before the mind quiets completely. This inner quietness is the
main necessary step towards a massive awakening experience.
As you explore
yourself deeper on this inner awakening journey you may begin to wonder "what is
real"? Are the sensations of your taste buds firing good and bad flavors more
real than these imaginary ideas about the past and future? Is your body's sense
of touch, sight and smell and hearing more real because they allow you to
interface with the physical world? We could invent all sorts of brilliant
definitions about what is real and what is imagined, and make a varied list of
degrees between these two worlds. Yet, for practical reasons in this spiritual
awakening experiment, lets stick to the understanding that what is real is
that which does not change.
This Universe is a
vast ordered chaos of quarks, atoms and molecules flying every which direction,
yet what is it that does not move and is the very center of this outrageous
cyclone. You may know what the answer is intellectually, and have known this
understanding for years yet find yourself still lost in the dream. It is only
when you devote your entire heart and being 100% to the grounded experience of
what does not change that a full spiritual awakening will occur. When
you stop to ponder this thought, and dive into this understanding with deep
inquiry and investigation all day long, something profound occurs. You are
bound to wake up from lifetimes of dreaming. When your mind becomes obsessed
and addicted to diving into the mystery of knowing that which does not
change 24 hours a day, the veil begins to lift on its own accord.
The problem for
most people is that they think they don't have time for this inner exploration.
They feel its not practical or possible given their busy lives of children,
work, bills, mortgages and traffic jams. The truth is you can continue doing the
same actions you are doing, yet from a more enlightened perspective. You will
show up at work and in your relationships with more lightness, smiling and a
genuine peaceful interest in what their experience of life is. When you wake up
from the dream, life is completely effortless no matter if you're trading
millions of dollars on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. You realize a
deeper enlightened truth inside, and do not allow anything to compromise the
peace in brings.
It is never
healthy to try and force yourself to
be dedicated to something you feel you "should" do. If you want real long
lasting results, there needs to be the utmost curiosity and wonder that comes
naturally from within. For anyone to have a full spiritual awakening
experience, they must be 100% committed to total inner freedom and be willing to
experience a deep level of transmutation. When you devote your life to something
50% you can at best expect 50% success. A true spiritual awakening is no small
matter for nothing in your life will be the same after it has occurred. Of
course you could continue to hold the same job, family and lifestyle as before,
yet the quality of each of these experiences will be is like the difference
between driving a 69 VW bug and a 2012 Ferrari. Your life will be completely
transformed when you're fully surrendered to living as the awareness of what is
real and does not change.
My best advice
to you on this profound walk
through the enlightening forest of self discovery is to be gentle with
yourself. Don't expect too much change in too little time. Often when progress
is steady and slow, the final change is more permanent. Slow and steady wins
the race, as each subtle shift creates a deeper embedded pattern making it
harder for the mind to slip back into it's old unconscious habit. And if you
start to hit a wall, relax, rest and be ordinary. A simple walk though the
forest can become the pathway of profound realization. The ordinary things in life become
absolutely extraordinary when
there is nowhere to go and nothing to attain.
Now is the time to
take this life changing journey into the source of self-realization. You have
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