Moksha

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.

@Breakingthewall If there is no outside of you to look for love, why are you still looking? Desire is seeing a difference where there is none.

@Breakingthewall You are looking for love, without realizing that you are already depthless love. Every desire, even the desire for love, is a misidentification with the cosmos. Desires and fears comprise the meteor field of the mind. The absolute creates this field to imagine moving through relative reality, but it is not actual. Freedom is when the absolute realizes itself directly by letting go of desires and fears, so only its true essence remains to be clearly seen.

Before concerning yourself with letting go of identity, first realize who you actually are. You won't be ready for it otherwise, and without the grounding of direct realization it could do more harm than good. You need to be anchored in the absolute. Make sure the kite is intact and the grip on the string is sure, before releasing it into the wind.

Instead of asking how to know if someone is awake, ask whether what they teach helps you along the inner path to the absolute. Rather than asking how to make others know you are awake, ask whether what you teach reflects your inner path to the absolute. There's truth to the maxim that "by their fruits ye shall know them", but the fruit still grows on other trees. Produce good fruit yourself, and you won't be distracted by whether others do or don't.

Imprisonment = Form identification and gratification Freedom = Form dissolution and love I suppose you could call love selfless desire, or the unconditional expression of the absolute, but that isn't what most people mean by desire.