Asleep at the Wheel

Most of us are asleep at the wheel, living in our private subjective Dreamland.

Dreamland is where suffering can happen. Good dreams, bad dreams, no matter– It is all just dreams, just thoughts, feelings, and images in our mind. Mind movies, mind stories.

In Dreamland, life is a matter of luck. Good luck? We feel good. Bad luck? We feel bad.

To escape Dreamland, waking up is all that is required. How do you escape a nightmare in which you are battling a demon? How does a good dream vanish? We simply wake up.

To get out of Dreamland, we just wake up, that’s all. It is just a different state of awareness.

To end our personal suffering we do not need to do anything special or overcome anything- we do not need to become a saint, or perfect, or heroic, or anything at all.

Sometimes it seems fun to become heroic things, but, honestly, nothing special is required to end our suffering. All the suffering, all the remorse, all the glory, all the stories– it all ends when awakening happens, just like the end of a dream.

Awakening is finding out who and what we are not, and thus finding out who and what we are.

Start now.