THE DREAM AND REALITY
JOHN MCINTOSH
Anything that has a beginning and an ending, from a soap bubble to a universe … is an illusion … a dream. Reality simply IS and does NOT change. This makes it relatively easy to identify what is NOT Real without the endless and fruitless attempts to describe what it IS since a frame cannot be placed around INFINITY.
Nevertheless, the mind [the false self] is easily seduced into these endless explanations and revels in the phenomena that generates so many ‘oohs and aahs’ on the roller coaster of happiness and sorrow that underpins the dream-world, which is founded on opposites, the offspring of the delusional belief in separation.
Whether it is science or metaphysics the plethora of levels of mixtures and combinations and connections that bring about the manifestation of things and circumstances from the design of a single cell to a human body to a galaxy, there is no shortage of exciting theories and fantastic descriptions of how the ‘dream-world’ works. Entire lifetimes are spent studying a single discipline whether exoteric or esoteric but none of them touch the pristine simplicity of Reality.
For example, it seems possible to express in the dream-world - Love, a facet in the diamond of Reality. But anything that emanates ‘from’ the mind is ‘less-than’ Reality, no matter how sincerely it is expressed. The one who stands in Truth [the full Awareness of the ONE SELF They Really Are] does not ‘express’ Love as the mind does. Love expresses IT SELF without thought or effort or selection or design.
IT simply occurs.
The same with Beauty, Peace and Joy … there ‘is’ no causation … THEY simply show up. A musician who for a moment loses themselves in a piece of beautiful music is ‘out-of-the-way’ mentally as an illusory body-mind expression and the Joy that is a facet of Reality is simply ‘revealed’ as ever-Present … not somehow created as something new.
Reality is NOT therefore ‘complicated’ … IT is simple, easy and never NOT Present, only the removal of the dream is required for IT to become instantly obvious.
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Books by John McIntosh
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