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Is life just a dream?


The text "Is life only a dream?" appeared on 3.4.2020 on my blog,
here it goes to the original click.


Especially to this text I have received many letters, also there
are readers (virtual students), who always thematize this text,
because it occupies them very much. Now a reader has revised this
text and added his own remarks, which is why I publish his copy
here (uncommented).


Is life only a dream? (With comments from the reader Deniz U.)


Is life only a dream?


Can Shaolin Rainer be trusted?


Could it be that life is just a dream? Thoughts trapped in
darkness.


Could we wake up from the dream? Why do we not realize that we
are asleep?


Significant Buddhist texts suggest this. But does it make sense
to you?


Important Chan masters repeatedly point to the surreality of
thought. The Anatman teaching of Buddha makes sense.


It raises the question, "Who am I"?


Where do I find light?


"Is this my body or am I my body"? Illusory words?


And if it is "my body", where am I? Not in the light, but why
not?


Really these questions will understand only people who are
"awakened", therefore they blow like the wind.


Because they know the reality, not the dream that we perceive as
reality. We need to connect with the Buddha, the Dharma and the
Sangha.


Life is like a "sitcom," a projection of your own mind. Deep
inside you know it.


The script and actors are set, episode after episode is shot.
Unfortunately, compassion and wisdom are missing.


Love, hate, greed and delusion are the usual ingredients of a
good television show. Without the eightfold path, it has no
level.


Our life is written, we can do little or nothing about it. Only
through Buddha's teaching, so try it and you will be surprised.
And later you will enjoy the pathless path.


Many things we can enjoy (like horror movies) because we know
they are not real. For the truth we are still unfortunately
blind.


We feel the same way with fears, enemy images and worries, until
we realize that these are also fake, then finally we are "above
it". Therefore, your Bodhisattwa makes vows and you get blessings
like the Boddhisattwa brothers.


In my dream I am "everything", basically I see only myself, in
every situation. Like action and re-action only an illusion. Only
when I wake up from the dream, I experience reality. Truth
liberates.


When and how do I know that I am no longer dreaming?


When is enlightenment your purpose?


When you live in the moment and no longer in your own world.
Recognize the surreality of the world. When the mind no longer
holds you captive, when the thought is released from the "thought
carousel" and when your consciousness no longer wanders in the
labyrinth. Worries and things that keep us under stress fall away
from us, then I have arrived in reality, then I have accepted my
Buddha nature. Finally see behind the scenes. Please learn the
Shaolin knowledge.


So there are no enemies outside of me, what I experience as an
enemy image is the projection of my own mind. But remember, it is
not simple.





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