The Light That I Am
The dream analogy has always appealed to me as a meaningful explanation of this so-called ‘life’ of mine. Of course, as far as pointing towards one’s true nature, there is nothing like actually pointing and looking, but the dream analogy confirms what I see when I See, and helps break the ties to deeply conditioned beliefs.
It goes something like this : When I dream I experience a world that is ‘real’ to my dream personage. In this dream world there appears a myriad of phenomena – houses, cars, people, animals, mountains, lakes, clouds – in a seemingly infinite variety of scenes, many of them arising randomly, but some involving a dream past and a dream future, not to mention frequent examples of bizarre (but believed !) dream reasoning.
I experience desire and fear, joy and sadness, pride and guilt. I see, hear, small, touch, and taste in a dream as I would in the waking state.
And yet when I awaken I know it was ‘all a dream’ – I know that every object and every event occurred only in my ‘mind’, that somehow during the night I had created an amazingly credible world of space and time containing all manner of phenomena. And I have no idea how I did it.
Perhaps an even better analogy was that proffered by the great Indian sage Ramana Maharshi. When asked to describe the nature of reality, the Maharshi likened it to a motion picture show. The Self (Awareness) is like the screen, he said, ‘life’ is the show.
You watch the show and see it as real, and yet when it ends you know it was ‘just a show’. No matter how many bullets fly, regardless of the dilemmas and tragedies and all the drama of the film, the background on which it appears remains unscathed – there are no bullet holes in the
screen. (continued …)
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