The Supreme Comedy

[Guest guest]

If there is one message Advaita gives us then it is that Reality is literally Everything. Advaita tells us that Reality has no “second.” Reality is thus Advaita’s “not-two.”

This Reality is not only beyond all dualities but also beyond name and form. The comedy is that even thought Reality is beyond name and form we keep giving it some sort of name and form like Self, Atman, Samadhi and even Kundalini. The only name that has some sort of relative meaning for this nameless and formless Reality is “dreamless-sleep.”

Other than this Reality called Self everything is the illusion of names and forms called maya. Maya is nothing but thoughts. Life is just like a dream because it is nothing but thoughts.

Life is a comedy because the more serious we take it the funnier it has to be when we Realize that it is nothing but thoughts.

A thought is nothing but a thought. The thought called Mickey Mouse is no more or less a thought than is the word Buddha, or Jesus, or even dirt. The comedy is Supreme because only thoughts separate the likes of an imaginary mouse from the thought called Buddha, and dirt.

Another side to this Supreme Comedy is that the mind is always dreaming that it is awake. The same EXACT thoughts that convinces the mind that it is awake in its sleep-dreams convince it that it is also awake for maya, our living, life.

We might want to argue that bleeding-bodies and broken-bones cannot be thoughts but then that is exactly what the mind thinks in its sleep-dreams in which even bodies, blood and bones have to be thoughts.

The more we examine how maya works with its illusions, thoughts, the more comical it gets.

When the mind takes its illusions, thoughts, seriously then this seriousness adds futility to this comical illusion called maya. This futility makes maya entertaining. The Hindus called this futility karma.

Futility: wanting to wake up when We – the Self – is eternally Awake; only thoughts can think otherwise.

Just like thoughts there are no limits to this/their futility.

Futility superimposed on futility: when “I” want to wake “others” up when there are no others because there is not even a doer called “I” -- because “I” is just like “you” and thus nothing but a thought.

 

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