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LAUGH AT THE DREAM

It seems to me that the people we see in the media (entertainers in particular) are selling dreams, impossible dreams for the most part.  Everything we see on TV, every Hollywood movie is some phantasmagoria dreamed up by some artist (and sometimes not even that).  They invite us to suspend our disbelief in what we are seeing and play along with the story being told.

By contrast, spiritual masters are selling (‘offering’ may be the more appropriate word) not dreams, but the Truth.  They tell us that life itself is a phantasmagoria dreamed up by ourselves.  They also teach that we unconsciously choose to suspend disbelief that we created all that we see in favor of just rolling along with the story we ourselves are unknowingly making up as we go along.  This is understandably a bit difficult for most people to accept, so they simply keep unconsciously dreaming and then reacting to that dream as though it were real, not realizing that it is anything but real and that its cause is found within themselves.

The reason the world is in this current sad state of affairs arises from the simple fact that most people are interested in dreams and fantasies instead of facing their own reality or truth—the truth that what we think is real (our life) is also a dream, and that the dream weavers are in fact—us.

Yogis and masters are adepts in the practice of stopping the dream, of waking up from the hellish unconscious process of forever dreaming.  But also they are masters at the delicate art of consciously choosing to dream along with the rest of us if they so wish, all the while consciously remembering that it is all a dream and therefore not taking too seriously anything they experience.  Such masters are known for having a wonderful sense of humor, always ready for a good laugh.

And as such it should be.  Life should not be taken too seriously by anyone.  If that alone happened, I doubt there would be very many people in the world who would want to cause strife, conflict, or war not to mention trying to cause terror which is just an overly amped-up version of sticking your nose in other people’s affairs or bullying others around.  Despots, harsh dictators and the like are really just adult versions of the schoolyard bully.  Question…if everyone in the world did nothing more than laugh at a despot when he expressed his desire to invade a country or makes a case for fighting or going to war and therefore requiring the help of all under his rule,…what would be the result?  Certainly not war, that is for sure.  If everyone else was busy enjoying life and laughing at those who demand that we fight against ourselves when there is no legitimate reason for it, then the world would never experience any kind of grand conflict for the simple fact that the dream the despot was selling was just too absurd for anyone to take seriously—and so they laugh at him.

The ancients described Laughter as the Great Neutralizer because it causes us to come back to center, to retrieve our balance with ourselves and our surrounding.

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