Moksha

@Breakingthewall I have no desire to argue with you If you choose to spend your life sailing across the surface of creation, of course I wish you the best. It is a great adventure. All I'm saying is that if you find yourself lost at sea, the anchor is always within if you need it. Ship ahoy! ?

This is a key insight for you to explore. Imagination is as unlimited as it is unreal. What is imagining, and what is being imagined?

If you are referring to absolute love, it is beyond dualities. God is seamless. The devils are the imaginary details.

Every hero's journey is effortlessly written, no story is the same, and the hero always comes home in the end. Enjoy the epic adventure ⚔️

This belief is what holds you back. As long as you identify as change, you are unable to directly realize the changeless absolute within. When you do, it will be like waking up from a dream. You will see with absolute clarity that existence is all just forms arising and dissolving within the imagination of time and space. You have to realize the absolute before you are able to see the cosmos for what it is. Concepts, memories, and desires are distractions from this realization. You don't have to realize all of the absolute to wake up. The tiniest particle of it will set you free. Enjoy the dream as long as you like. There are so many great adventures. Just don't expect enduring fulfillment from any of them. When you are ready for the anchor of the absolute, you will realize that it is always here.

When you dream at night, a movie plays upon the screen and you believe that it is real. When you wake up in the morning, a movie plays upon the screen and you believe that it is real. When you awaken, a movie plays upon the screen and you directly realize that it is not real.

If you believe that whatever happens in your mind is absolute reality, you are ensnared in imagination. The cosmos is imagination, but reality is beyond the cosmos. The absolute is love without experience, light without reflection, and silence without echo.

There is only uncreated reality. Creation is imagination. It isn't real. There is no beginning, no change, and no ending in the absolute. When you dreamed last night, you probably believed your dream to be real. Now that you are awake, it's obvious that the dream wasn't real. Just because you dreamed it doesn't make it real. It only seemed real at the time. When you directly realize the absolute, you will see that the waking state is no more real than the dreaming state. The person having a dream is itself being dreamed.

Exactly.

You see it differently than me ? What is happening is not real. The absolute doesn't happen to anything, nor does anything happen to it. It is changeless, seamless, and beyond experience.

Every dream form is a conduit for the absolute, but differs in capacity and vibrational frequency.

The absolute is sometimes referred to as the absolute state, but I see it as beyond all states. It is white (all colors, the cosmos), it is black (absence of colors, the void), and it is beyond both. It's a good example of why the absolute is called a mystery, beyond logic and names. The human mind can't comprehend truth beyond paradox.

The essence of phenomena, which is the absolute, doesn't change. All states are illusion. Even the states of hiding from and realizing itself are not actually real. It is all the imagination of the absolute, which is fine, as long it is seen as such. It can still enjoy the dream, without apparent desires and fears obscuring its true nature.

Instead of relying on memory (which isn't real), realize pure bliss, peace, love, and silence, which is what you absolutely are. The absolute allows glimpses of this, where it stops identifying as a person bound by space and time, but then returns to entanglement with the dream. Mind-habits have to be let go of entirely. It only seems scary, because you are identified with the ego, which isn't real. In pure bliss, peace, love, and silence there is nothing to be scared of. How to let go? Hear truth, contemplate without conceptualizing it, and be it. Easier said than done, but still possible, especially when aided by the severing blade of suffering.

It is the seamless essence of the witness and the witnessed, appearing to be what it is not.

Your instinct about the illusory nature of subject > object is correct. The absolute is beyond witness and witnessed. Awareness doesn't require an object, any more than intelligence or love or freedom. These are unconditional facets of the absolute, not attributes, seamless like an infinite diamond.

Happy birthday, @Leo Gura! ? So many protostars within the cosmos, and I'm glad we crossed orbits within this little system of the infinite.

All states are imaginary. In their essence, they are still the absolute, but appearing as what they are not.

From the materialist (or relative) perspective, it isn't necessary to destroy your life, only to disidentify from it. Not only can you lucidly adventure through the dream, but doing so rooted in absolute love allows you to experience the cosmos without being consumed by it.

You can't destroy what doesn't exist. The absolute is. The appearance of forgetting and remembering itself is imagination.

@UnbornTao The absolute has been called a state, but I see it as beyond states, all of which imply change. Direct realization is a state because it is the intersection of absolute and relative reality. It is the appearance of awakening, but ultimately there is nothing to awaken. Remove the appearance of the relative, and states dissolve along with it.

Aka awakening within the dream ?

Direct realization is still a state of consciousness, but closer to letting go of all states. If you want to watch the movie, you have to pay the price of admission, even if the cost is the lowest denomination of imagination.

@playdoh You got this ?

@Breakingthewall Yes, it is all the absolute. The idea of "inner" vs. "outer" is a deception. You can directly realize this, even within the apparent separation of the dream. When you do, every phenomenal experience is filtered by absolute love. There is no desire to find love, because you already unconditionally are.