LIFE IS NOT REAL. IT’S JUST A RIDE AT THE CARNIVAL.
Life is not of God. Life is something outside of God. It doesn’t matter what one does in life because life is not of God. Life is a dream. By its very essence, it is ephemeral. It is transitory. Perhaps more importantly, it is essentially meaningless. Life, the world, one’s sense of self importance, all are as nothing because they are nothing. And the reason for this is as stated before—it is not of God.
I have heard from the masters themselves that they along with other masters realize that one’s vocation in the world is unimportant. In fact it is a historical fact that many masters ‘do nothing’ from the perspective of the common people. Masters have been known to sit in meditation for 20 hours a day, sleep little and then do it all over again, only rarely entertaining visitors who are always sincere, devoted spiritual seekers deserving of the presence of such a reclusive spiritual giant.
It may certainly seem unfair to most of us unenlightened that spiritual giants don’t ‘work’ like the rest of us. But the reason for this is that masters realize that life is just a dream and what they do whilst in a body is essentially unimportant because of the very unreal nature of the universe itself. Therefore they know it doesn’t matter if they actively teach using all available media or if they keep to themselves and let sincere students find their way to the master’s door thru fate, destiny, desire to meet a teacher, etc.
Think of life thru this weird analogy. Suppose someone walked up to you and gave you a million dollars and told you to spend it any way you wanted, but there was only one catch—when the money is all gone, no matter how you have spent it, it will come to nothing in the end. This is because you are not allowed to keep anything you purchased, no one will be able to keep any gifts you purchased for them, and nothing you do with the money (no matter how charitable) will make you or anyone happy in the end, no expenditure will change anything or make a better world or change the way things are done or remove the evil from the world or magically make everyone super intelligent or compassionate or totally loving. Essentially, no matter how you spend the money it won’t change a goddamned thing about the world. Why? Because the world and all that is in it is a dream—and dreams have no reality.
Now…would you still think that the money was important?
Think of it another way. Instead of money, think ‘time’. Or think ‘work’. In other words, if how you spent your time or what work you did while alive really didn’t amount to anything upon death, basically leaving the world unchanged, then what would you do? Better yet, would you even care about what you do, how you occupy your time, or what job you have, or what career you pursue, or…anything at all? Would you place any importance upon a damned thing you do? If you answer ‘no’ then you can understand why some spiritual masters don’t ‘work’ like the rest of us.
Or think of it this way. Do you worry over or place any importance upon what you do while dreaming at night? Do you behave the same way in a dream as you do when you are awake? Does your dream persist upon awakening? Of course not. Worldly life will not persist upon death. Death will be an awakening of another sort in which you awaken to the fact that your worldly life in a human body was just a dream and all the things you did and the self-importance you placed on everything you did was for really for nothing because it was just a dream. And it all was a laughable and pitiable waste of time and effort to fret over how you spent your time or what job you worked or who you dated or what awards you won, etc. All was for nothing. And to take is seriously or treat it as ‘something’ is to make an ass of yourself.
Life is an entertainment. Don’t take it seriously. Do what you wish and don’t regret it. Live life NOW. For tomorrow may not be. One day will come when tomorrow will not be. One day you WILL DIE. So why worry over what you do? Just do what comes naturally. Life will be at least an amusing carnival ride. But just remember this…
All carnivals close down at some point. Everyone goes home in the end. God is that Home. God is where we go in the end. And we are all part of God. All the parts of God go back to God in the end. Only God is. And there IS nothing else.
When you were a kid on a carnival ride, did you take it…seriously? Or did you just enjoy it for what it was?
Then that is how to live life.
“It’s just a ride.”—Bill Hicks
