LIFE IS A DREAM, WE ARE IMAGINATION OF OURSELVES
It has been said that life is a dream. Perhaps life is nothing more than a Memory.
Perhaps life is not something that is currently happening so much as it is a thing that already happened. Or stated more universally, life is a Thing-That-Is-Not-A-Thing, because since it is/was an ephemeral dream and therefore not eternal. Therefore Life may be correctly viewed as a remembered dream.
But Life may also be viewed as God dreaming that it was some-thing that thought it wasn’t God, separated from God. And this thing wondered and wondered about God, the nature of God, how to find God, wondering if it would ever find God, all during the imaginary time frame in which the thing-no-thing thought itself was really alive.
If God is dreaming all this, they why should the thing question all the junk that goes on around it in the first place? The thing should just enjoy it, for when God exhausts its imagination on this thing, then the thing will disappear. After all, it never really was real in the first place.
Masters know these above statements to be true. They in turn usually stick around on earth for the benefit of others, to help them. They live a life in compassionate service to others. That is the kind of memory they choose to download from God—or is God choosing to upload the memory to them?
If life is a dream, just a remembering of a memory, then it is absolutely ludicrous to judge anything that seems to go on out there, for not only is it a dream, but it is not even necessarily a dream happening for the very first time in this moment of NOW. It could just be like a movie one watches in a theater. And it is OK to be engaged in the movie, to enjoy it.
But remember that the movie is not real, and you therefore need not let it affect you seriously, as though the characters were any more real than the patterns of light that projected their image on the silver screen. Nevertheless ‘hardcore fans’ of certain movies act as if their favorite stories were real, missing the point of the story, overlooking the lessons offered by the movie’s plot.
Judging things experienced as happening “out there” is as silly as being one of those hardcore fans. Remember, it could just all be a set of memories being played out for your entertainment and/or observation only.
Therefore learn from it, laugh at it, be ready to move out of it permanently (death-enlightenment), but don’t take it seriously (don’t be a fan of it) because that will keep you here for a long, long time.
Paramahansa Yogananda used to tell his students that life is like a movie…don’t take it seriously.
