The dream called Maya

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Advaita tells us that Reality is a “not-two” called the Self.

Advaita also tell us that since the Self is Reality the mind is nothing more than its thoughts. The mind is what it thinks.

The collection of thoughts called a mind cannot control the thoughts that it is because “control” is just one of its thought.

A mind that thinks it can control its thoughts can be called an ego. Because an ego thinks it can control its thoughts it has to play a game. This game is called karma.

Karma is the chaos that thoughts or egos create when they think they control thoughts that are uncontrollable.

There are no limits to this game called karma. If an ego thinks it can control its thoughts well enough then it might think and act with wealth, learning or success. And should an ego think it can control its thoughts even better than wealth and success need, then it might think it is a king, or even emperor.

And should an ego think that it can control its thoughts better than can kings and emperors then it will have to think and act like some sort of god.

And should an ego think it can control its thoughts even better than can gods, then it can take its thinking and acting one step further and play the supreme-role.

In this supreme-role an ego plays everything, all names and forms – the whole universe, and everything in it.

To be the universe an ego will have to play the role of the Self.

There is just one problem with playing the role of the Self – there is no role to play.

You cannot play the role of the Self because You are the Self. You can think and pretend to be anything you want but you cannot think or pretend to be the Self. This is because You have eternally been the Self. No matter what role you think you are playing you are still the Self, only thoughts can think otherwise.

If you cannot imagine that you are the Self then pretend you are dreaming. If you can pretend that your dreaming well enough then you might just realize that -- FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YOUR LIFE -- you are not pretending because you are the Self.

In a dream the dreamer, You, the Self, are/is the “dreaming” and You are also playing all the roles of all the names and forms in the dream.

The moment you can accept that you are dreaming the chaos of karma turns into the Joy of Maya, dreaming, the Self.

There are no limits to this Joy of Maya, this dream. There is even laughter.

To understand how dreams are this Joy, and laughter, let us take a dream and call it Maya.

Except for a very rare mirror-image all the characters in this dream will be egos. A mirror-image is a character that is also aware that it is dreaming, just like You, the Self. Your mirror-image will not entertain you very much.

Other than for this rare mirror-image all the characters in this dream called Maya will be just a collection of thoughts called egos. These egos create all the karma that keeps Your dream, this Maya, entertaining.

All these egos are just the thoughts they need to think they are doers. But in dreams there are no doers only different thoughts, names and forms, that think they are doers, when in fact they are just You, the Self, playing all the imaginary roles of egos and their names and forms.

As long as you are aware that you are dreaming everything that can happen in your dream can only be this pure Joy and laughter called Maya.

Let us take, for example, a scenario where an ego comes up to You, in your dream called Maya, and insults You and calls you a fool and a jerk.

If You are aware that you are dreaming then You will have to laugh because this ego is just You, the Self, telling You that You are a fool and a jerk. And should you be even more aware then You will laugh even harder when You accept that not only are You a fool and jerk but You are all the fools and all the jerks… and also all the idiots and pricks, and also dirt and garbage … and then You will have to laugh even harder when You accept that You are every word, all the names and forms, in the dictionary; and also all the words that are not allowed in the dictionary, or on

TV …. and everything else that is imaginable, and also unimaginable.

And only when You accept that You are the dictionary, and every word in it, can You be aware of just how Joyful this dream called Maya can be.

And should this dream called Maya lose its laughter and Joy then it is just the karma this Maya needs to be more entertaining. And the more thoughts cloud your acceptance of Being the Dreamer, called the Self, the more You will have to laugh when You finally awake to Realize that the only reason You lost the Joy and laughter – that YOU ARE -- was because You were pretending to play the role of some imaginary-doer, ego, like perhaps a king, emperor or even a god.

And this game or chaos called karma is not only funny but the Supreme Comedy but only because thoughts cannot be controlled.

And should an ego get the thought “I-cannot-control-my-thoughts” then it is only because it is a part of this dream called Maya. And the instant this thought is accepted the ego dies with its chaos and karma to be the Joy and laughter of Maya, the Dreamer called the Self.alias geepee