Free Will | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Originally Posted by Still_Waters

As in a lucid dream, why can't one simply enjoy the play of consciousness without introducing concepts?

For me it's beyond concept, however in this venue that's all we have. I can't plug anyone into my subjective experience, so I just express in language the concepts that most accurately point to that subjective experience. The only other option is silence and that isn't exactly fruitful for this forum.

[Miss Hepburn]

Hi there -ha I found the best most trusting little cat around my house at
10 below freezing, crying. Saved it, put up signs...
she's mine now, all grown up 6 months later.

'' Are we confusing 'unreal' with 'impermanent'?"
I'm not. I've seen too much. At 8, I was shown, (and other times later), "Why...th-th-this is all a Dream!'' Looking around in awe. 1960.
Later, I used the words ...''made of Dreamstuff''.
It could be Mt. Everest here millions of years ...all made of Dreamstuff. :)
Ha, and what I was shown at FIVE!

[Still_Waters]

QUOTE 31 EXCERPT:

Originally Posted by JustASimpleGuy

The only other option is silence and that isn't exactly fruitful for this forum.

As you duly noted, "silence ... isn't exactly fruitful for this forum".

I will leave it at that as silence is becoming more and more compelling.

[Still_Waters]

QUOTE 32 EXCERPT:

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

'' Are we confusing 'unreal' with 'impermanent'?"
I'm not........"Why...th-th-this is all a Dream!'' Looking around in awe. 1960.
Later, I used the words ...''made of Dreamstuff''.

I actually came to the same conclusion many years ago that the Universe is dream-like in nature. The only point I am making is that this dream-like manifestation is neither an "illusion" nor "real" nor "unreal". There are implications with those words. This is simply the nature of the Reality.

My sense is that we are in complete agreement with only some terminology differences.

The dream-like nature of the manifestation became clear to me many years ago and that is why I gravitated to the Tibetan Yogi Milarepa's focus on mundane dreams at first and then, from there, proceeded further in accordance with the "as above so below" principle. I studied the three states of man (deep sleep, the dream process from start to finish, and the so-called "waking state") as well as the transitions as a prelude to the next level.

My sense is that we are essentially in agreement.

The only thing I know so far is that I thought I used my free will card but it took me the same way, now I go with the flow, accept what has been, what is now, what is to come, thinking I am meant to get it all one day the what and the why :) the good and the bad

[Still_Waters]

quotE 31 EXCERPT:

Originally Posted by JustASimpleGuy

The only other option is silence and that isn't exactly fruitful for this forum.

Sometimes, the best option for some...even on this forum...might indeed be silence.