you would not try to improve yourself, improve your affairs.
You would not even react to anything.
Because there's nothing to improve, because you're not that at all.
The dream is like the images on the chalkboard,
they can be erased and new images put on
and erased and new images put on.
The dream is like bubbles in the ocean, the bubbles come,
the bubbles go, but the ocean remains the same.
The dream is like the water in the mirage.
It doesn't exist but it seems real. And so it is with you.
You appear to be real. Everything appears to be real to you,
but it's not.
And again I say, do not believe what I say.
Find out for yourself. Prove it to yourself.
The only way you can prove it to yourself,
is by practicing sadhana, spiritual disciplines.
If you do nothing, you get nothing.
You just go through life like a leaf in the wind
and your life will end and you'll appear again somewhere else.
Because you continue to dream.
In that dream there is reincarnation, there's karma, there's God.
There's all kinds of things happening in the dream.
But also remember, the dream came out of you originally
to begin with. It emanated from you,
where else would it come from?
There's no one to cause the dream but you.
Who caused the dream that you dream at night?
You may dream about God.
You may dream about karma and reincarnation.
You could dream that you're an angel.
You may dream that you go to heavenly planes.
You hear blissful music.
What's causing this to happen? You! There's only you.
You are the cause of everything that takes place. Everything!
Again, to prove this you go into sleep,
into deep sleep and you don't dream,
there's no dream taking place. You're in dreamless sleep.
The universe is gone, the world is gone, your body is gone,
God is gone, your troubles are gone, everything is gone!
This is why when you awaken,
you say, "I feel refreshed. I slept good."
Because you were without the world and its manifestation.
You must become the witness to this dream also, not the doer,
but the witness.
There's quite a difference.
The doer believes the body and the mind are real.
So they have to take action and make things happen,
get involved in the world.
But the witness really just imagines that everything's okay,
even though they have not had a realization yet,
but they try to witness everything to the best of their ability.
They become the seer, the witness of all the happenings
on this earth. But there's no reaction.
And if there's no reaction, the mind becomes weaker and
weaker and weaker, for it has nothing to do anymore.
Until the mind is slowly transcended
and you become free and liberated.
-Robert Adams - T.231 - Witness The Dream -14th March, 1993
but it's not.
And again I say, do not believe what I say.
Find out for yourself. Prove it to yourself.
The only way you can prove it to yourself,
is by practicing sadhana, spiritual disciplines.
If you do nothing, you get nothing.
You just go through life like a leaf in the wind
and your life will end and you'll appear again somewhere else.
Because you continue to dream.
In that dream there is reincarnation, there's karma, there's God.
There's all kinds of things happening in the dream.
But also remember, the dream came out of you originally
to begin with. It emanated from you,
where else would it come from?
There's no one to cause the dream but you.
Who caused the dream that you dream at night?
You may dream about God.
You may dream about karma and reincarnation.
You could dream that you're an angel.
You may dream that you go to heavenly planes.
You hear blissful music.
What's causing this to happen? You! There's only you.
You are the cause of everything that takes place. Everything!
Again, to prove this you go into sleep,
into deep sleep and you don't dream,
there's no dream taking place. You're in dreamless sleep.
The universe is gone, the world is gone, your body is gone,
God is gone, your troubles are gone, everything is gone!
This is why when you awaken,
you say, "I feel refreshed. I slept good."
Because you were without the world and its manifestation.
You must become the witness to this dream also, not the doer,
but the witness.
There's quite a difference.
The doer believes the body and the mind are real.
So they have to take action and make things happen,
get involved in the world.
But the witness really just imagines that everything's okay,
even though they have not had a realization yet,
but they try to witness everything to the best of their ability.
They become the seer, the witness of all the happenings
on this earth. But there's no reaction.
And if there's no reaction, the mind becomes weaker and
weaker and weaker, for it has nothing to do anymore.
Until the mind is slowly transcended
and you become free and liberated.
-Robert Adams - T.231 - Witness The Dream -14th March, 1993
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