Is life a dream?

[Aturban]

If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself – not as a stranger in the world, not as something here on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.

[VeganAwake]

Are you asking a question?

[Aturban]

@VeganAwake Yes

[Aturban]

@Tim Ho Interesting  

[James123]

5 hours ago, Aturban said:

If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself – not as a stranger in the world, not as something here on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.

THere is no life, world nor death. Your birth and universe is just a process of thoughts.  Every so called knowledge comes from so called “I”, including word of “knowledge “. Just putting meaning, naming and labeling the words and thoughts (inculuding saying words to”words”, thoughts to “thoughts “) creates so called “separation “. Forget everything that “you” have learned (including “yourself”). Whatever left is your true self, as before so called “birth”. 

[Aturban]

@James123 Words. Adjectives. Pronouns. Adverbs.....Run on and on and on

[seeking_brilliance]

@Aturban maybe 'implies' is the dream, and the rest are breathed into life around that. 

[Aturban]

@seeking_brilliance It's all one collective dream

[seeking_brilliance]

@Aturban hehe yeah

[VeganAwake]

It's dream like in the sense that all the meaning purpose and value casted onto reality by the separate sense of self is ultimately illusory and when the body/mind dies there will not be even the slightest remembrance of existence. 

Only nobody can know this ❤

[Fadl]

Life is a dream, you wake up when you die. 

[Valwyndir]

Dream is a relative term arising dependently with the concept of reality. You can't have one without the other. For a "dream" to exist there must be a "realer" experience to compare it with. 

Reality is completely non dual. It's neither a dream nor not a dream. So what's the best way to view it? The opposite of how you view it now. If you think its a dream, try to examine its realness. If you think its real, try to examine its illusoriness. 

The issue is that most people believe the structure of dreams are WAY different than reality. That's simply not true. The context behind both is the same. Both dreams and reality are simply the imagination of you as God. Relative to the materialist paradigm, both reality and dreams are mind at their core, not matter (although relative to the idealist paradigm, reality and dreams are matter at their core, not mind). 

The point is that the structure is essentially the same. The only difference between a very realistic dream and reality is that reality is a continuous dream whereas dreams at night stand alone. You can think of reality as the main movie and your dreams at night as commercials within the movie.  

[Moksha]

There is no black without white. No joy without suffering. No love without hate. Do you choose duality, with its inevitable transience, or changeless, ultimate reality? Whether or not you understand it, You do.

[Breakingthewall]

it is a dream in the sense that there is no i, it is a fantasy created by the collective thought system. When you wake up from that dream, reality is left without identity, you are the perceiver and the perceived. in another deeper sense, it could be said that the material universe is a dream of the absolute, of infinite consciousness, that it really is nothing if you contrast it with the infinite, which is empty, without content

[abrakamowse]

Row row row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily...

TA DA!!!!