consider the world as a drama
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what you are basically deep deep down
far far in is simply
the fabric and structure of existence
itself
say in hindu mythology they say that the
world
is the drama of god god
is not something in hindu mythology with
the white beard
that sits on the throne and it has royal
prerogatives
god in indian mythology is the self
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which means sat that which is chit that
which is consciousness
that which is under is bliss and in
other words
what exists reality itself is
gorgeous it is the plenum
the fullness of total joy
wow we and all those stars if you look
out in the sky as a firework display
like you see on the 4th of july
which is a great occasion for
celebration the universe is a
celebration it is a fireworks show
to celebrate that existence is
wow we and then they say but however
there's no point just in sustaining
bliss
let's suppose that you were able every
night to dream any dream he wanted to
dream
and that you could for example have the
power
within one night to dream 75 years of
time
or any length of time you wanted to have
and you would
naturally as you began on this adventure
of dreams you would fulfill all your
wishes
you would have every kind of pleasure
see and after several nights of 75 years
of total pleasure each
you would say well that was pretty great
but now let's um
let's have a surprise let's have a dream
which isn't under control
well something is going to happen to me
that i don't know what it's going to be
and uh you you would dig that and come
out of that and say wow that was a
close shave wasn't it then you would get
more and more adventurous and you would
make further and further out gambles as
to what you would dream
and finally you would dream
where you are now you would dream the
dream of living the life that you were
actually living today
that would be within the infinite
multiplicity
of choices you would have so in this
idea then
everybody is fundamentally
the ultimate reality not
god in a politically kingly sense
but god in the sense of being the self
the deep down
basic whatever there is and you're
all that only you're pretending you're
not
so then this means
that you're not victims of a scheme of
things
of a mechanical world or of an
autocratic god
the life you are living is what you put
yourself only you don't admit it
because you want to play the game that
it's happened to you
everything is standing right out in the
open it's just a question of how you
look at it
so you do discover when you realize this
the most extraordinary thing to me that
i never cease to be flabbergasted
whenever it happens to me some people
will use a symbolism
of the relationship of god to the
universe wherein
god is say brilliant light
only somehow veiled hiding underneath
all these forms that you see as you look
around you
so far so good but the truth is funnier
than that
it is that you are looking right at the
brilliant light now
that the experience you are having which
you call ordinary everyday consciousness
pretending you're not it that experience
is exactly the same thing as it there's
no difference at all
and when you find that out you laugh
yourself silly
that's the great discovery in other
words when you really start to see
things
and you look at an old paper cup
and you go into the nature of what it is
to see
what vision is or what smell is or what
touches
you realize that that vision of the
paper cup
is the brilliant light of the cosmos
nothing could be brighter ten thousand
suns couldn't be brighter
you evoke light out of the universe
you