This post is a continuation of the prior post...
"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."
But, again, why?
Through our limited perception that this five senses level of reality is “it”, we have lost all context as to what life actually is. In fact, we think it is actually possible to lose our life. As in, “that will cost you your life.” Not so. You cannot lose your life. You can lose the use of your body, yes. So, someone could say, “That will cost you the use of your body.” And that is a big deal. But no one has the power to take your life, not even you. You can be The Programmer of your code, you can be The Magician that is capable of doing what Christ was able to do (‘all of this I have done you can do and more’). But you are not, and will never be, The Architect.
How’s that for being clear about what’s in and what’s out of your job description?
Wondering what your life purpose is? Simple. It is to become The Programmer and The Magician. How you do that doesn't matter. Do it. Now, preferably.
So are you going to co-operate with that JD or will you insist on continuing to resist it?
Here’s the kicker (or pisser). Having lost that context of what life is and our JD within life—most of our action is simply folly. It is folly because it is a reaction to a frame of reference that isn’t even real. We are fighting for stakes that are not real, and fighting for meaning which isn’t real.
Besides that, well, bull’s eye. Right on the mark, mate. Go ahead, fire away.
I have to chuckle at myself from time to time. I can imagine my soul looking at me, when I have got myself all wrapped around my own axle defending my fragile little sense of self from some onslaught from another carbon-based unit, thinking it all really matters—that it is a matter of life and death, yessiree. And my soul thinking, “Otis has totally lost it. E.T., please phone home.” But I don’t phone home, I take flail about re-enacting old BS that makes my soul cringe, and my soul up there is shaking its head thinking that I am a spiritual epileptic having a spiritual seizure.
Trouble is, in that moment, I am that. But I am capable of much, much more than that.
Sound familiar to you?
Making It Practical:
1. So what are you making a big deal about, as if it is a matter of dying if you do it or don't do it?
2. Can you see how much your mind is making it good or bad, but that the situation itself is neither?
See if you can disassociate your mind labeling the situation from the situation itself. In that gap, you will begin working with your own perception. And the moment you begin working with it, you start freeing yourself from the ghost in the machine. You start waking up in the dream. You start Programming. You pull the rabbit out of the hat. And, fearless leader, it is only then that you can actually exert any control over the dream.
You cannot wake up from the dream. You'd die. But you can wake up in the dream, cooperate with it and exert control over it. And since that is all you can do, and all you need to do, will you do it? P.S. It's in your JD!
