If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white
Self implies other
Life implies death
Or shall I say death implies life
You can feel yourself not as a stranger in the world
Not as something here on probation
Not as something that has arrived here by fluke
But you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental
I'm not trying to sell you on this idea in the sense of converting you to it
I want you to play with it
I want you to think of its possibilities
I'm not trying to prove it
I'm just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about
So then
Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you 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 you've seen
And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each
You would say
Well, that was pretty great
But now let's have a surprise
Let's have a dream which isn't under control
Where something is going to happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be
And 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 are actually living today
That would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have
Of playing that you weren't God
Because the whole nature of the Godhead
According to this idea
Is to play that he's not
So in this idea
Then everybody is fundamentally God
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.
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If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white
Self implies other
Life implies death
Or shall I say death implies life
You can feel yourself not as a stranger in the world
Not as something here on probation
Not as something that has arrived here by fluke
But you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental
I'm not trying to sell you on this idea in the sense of converting you to it
I want you to play with it
I want you to think of its possibilities
I'm not trying to prove it
I'm just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about
So then
Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you 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 you've seen
And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each
You would say
Well, that was pretty great
But now let's have a surprise
Let's have a dream which isn't under control
Where something is going to happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be
And 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 are actually living today
That would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have
Of playing that you weren't God
Because the whole nature of the Godhead
According to this idea
Is to play that he's not
So in this idea
Then everybody is fundamentally God
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.
Self implies other
Life implies death
Or shall I say death implies life
You can feel yourself not as a stranger in the world
Not as something here on probation
Not as something that has arrived here by fluke
But you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental
I'm not trying to sell you on this idea in the sense of converting you to it
I want you to play with it
I want you to think of its possibilities
I'm not trying to prove it
I'm just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about
So then
Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you 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 you've seen
And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each
You would say
Well, that was pretty great
But now let's have a surprise
Let's have a dream which isn't under control
Where something is going to happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be
And 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 are actually living today
That would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have
Of playing that you weren't God
Because the whole nature of the Godhead
According to this idea
Is to play that he's not
So in this idea
Then everybody is fundamentally God
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.
Writer: Alan Watts
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