Everyone wants to enjoy their dreaming. They have no interest in awakening from their dreaming.
Carl Jung: 'Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens'.
Thank you for a truly great article. What you have written is absolutely true, even though it won't get you many claps as most people prefer to enjoy trivial nonsense.
Another great post. I find many of your posts extremely helpful. Many thanks Joe.
A great article Graham, extremely clearly written. Here are few quotes for you. Neils Bohr: 'Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real'. Max Plank: 'I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness'. Carl Jung; 'Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens'. The Buddha; 'We are what we think All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world' (collapse the wave function ?). I read and loved Capra and Zukav over 40 yeas ago.
This scenario reminds me of Vietnam. How could a mighty country like America possibly lose a war against a tinpot country like Vietnam ? but they obviously did, and lost about 40,00 men and a couple of trillion dollars. Huge conceit versus an extremely determined enemy.
This post reminds me of Nisargadatta Maharj 'I am That' " In reality there is only consciousness. All life is conscious, all consciousness alive'
Consciousness plays many roles. And then believes it IS the roles it plays. Until it eventually Awakens, and realizes it is the one consciousness playing all the many roles. God-realization is the realization that one is one's consciousness or inner, rather than one's outer or form, the self.
A mother's love for her children is not selfless love. Her children are an extension of her. And with true love there is no loss of self-control, like there is when we 'fall in love'. When you truly find your heart love becomes automatic and effortless. You see everyone as your brother or sister, even if they hate you and want to kill you. These are not just nice words but a truth that I have lived. But even though I see everyone as my family doesn't imply that I should like everyone. To find your heart does not mean that you automatically become a moron, which tends to happen when you 'fall in love'.
