Question:

Ektaji, is this understanding correct? Time and cause-and-effect will continue to be used by the body-mind (e.g., the body-mind apologizing for being late), but I am fully aware that this is role-play of the dream character, and I remain aware of the Reality of nothingness and nobodyness.

 

Answer:

One who walks the spiritual path with earnestness soon arrives at the direct seeing that:

• • The Waking World and the Waker cannot be separated. In fact, they both are actually a single Waking screen.
  • When he assumes to be the Waker, he becomes attached to the Waking-world. When he stands at a distance from the Waker and witnesses, then it all appears like a dream, an imagination; it is actually a Waking-dream.
  • When he assumes the stand of the body-mind, he jumps into the screen. He pretends to be the Waking-dream character. Then story creation follows. The ideas of time and cause-and-effect are assumed to be real. The body-mind [waking dream character] does not know anything outside of the waking dream world; it cannot comprehend that there can be something beyond the Waking time & cause-and-effect.
  • When he stands as the Witness, he realizes that time and cause-and-effect stories belong inside the screen, not outside it. He recognizes that outside the Waking screen, a new truth is revealed; there is no time, no cause-and-effect.
  • The Waking single screen is a mental picture mistakenly called the NOW. In the NOW imagination, the body-mind person addressed as ‘I’ is a mental image. The family members are mental images. The situation of arriving late is mental. The mental images enter and exit the mental picture of the NOW. There is actually nothing happening in reality. The entire scenario is nothing but thought.

It is all simply thought! Everything is simply images arising and disappearing in the mental picture NOW!

 

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