For the Being-In-Between

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> * Am I awake or am I asleep?

> (I am neither awake nor asleep).

 

"There is no such 'thing' as a dream (or a mirage, an illusion, an

hallucination), the dream as a thing-in-itself is not such.

 

There is phenomenon, an apparent dream-ing, just as there are ten thousand

phenomena due to appparent see-ing, apparent hear-ing, feel-ing, smell-ing,

taste-ing, apparent know-ing, but the objects apparently perceived by the

senses are not entities at all. There is only a perceiv-ing of apparent

objects mov-ing in apparent space in the apparent seriality of time.

 

In daily 'life' the apparently 'other' sentient beings who sensorially

perceive the same phemonena that we perceive, synchronized in the same

apparent time, are themselves also phenomena, mutually perceived or mutually

not perceived, but there is nothing but the perceiv-ing, as in a dream there

is nothing but the dream-ing. If the dreamer awakes the dreaming ends, and

there is no question regarding the 'beings' or other phenomena in the dream,

as to whether 'they' are still pursuing their dream activities or are awake

also. So in liv-ing, the awakened does not consider whether his fellows in

the 'living'-dream', for now he knows that neither these nor that one of

them which appeared to be himself was anything but phenomenal object of the

supposed dreamer.

 

In both cases the apparent reality of the event dreamed has disappeared

forever.

 

Where second-degree dreaming is concerned this is obvious to all of us, for

we were the supposed dreamer and we are now awake, but in the first-degree

or 'living'-dream, which is essentially identical, we have difficulty seeing

it, for we are still participants in our dream, and as such, we are unaware

that we are being dreamed.

 

However, in our 'living'-dream we have the possibility of becoming aware of

this, and then each of us who does so can recognize that he is not the

apparent entity in his particular dream that he believed himself to be, but

the apparent dreamer of his own dream. That recognition too is called

'Awakening', but he cannot awaken the 'others' in his dream -for they were

only his objects and were not entities in their own right any more than he

was in the dream.

 

Therefore, each dreamer can only awaken from his own dream, from the dream

in which he himself participated as 'himself', for even if his 'liv-ing'

friends appeared in his dream they did so only as his objects-which is as he

happened to visalize them. 'Others', therefore, are nothing but our

objects; as we know them they are not entities in their own right, and they

only appear to be such as dream of his own dream, that is subjectively.

 

Awakened, however, each dreamer finds that he was the apparent subject of

all the objects in his late dream of 'living', but now is still not an

entity - for he no longer exists as an object except in the 'living' -dream

of 'others'. He is the pure unconditioned subjectivity by means of which he

was dreamed, as all other apparently sentient beings are dreamed, and whose

apparent sentiency is nothing but that.

 

When the dreamed awakened from his sleeping-dream he was never the dreamer

but was himself still being dreamed. There has never been a dream-er at

all; there is just a phenomenon of dream-ing.

 

That, then, is what the 'living'-dream is, i.e. an objectivization in Mind

in which apparent entities are not such, and whose dreamer has never existed

as an object and can never be an object in his own right - for there can

never be any such 'thing'.

>From "All Else Is Bondage" Non Volitional Living - Wei Wu Wei