Dream

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

What you are basically
Deep, deep down, far, far in
Is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself
So, say in Hindu mythology
They say that the world is the drama of God
God is not something in Hindu mythology with a white beard
That sits on a throne and that has royal prerogatives

God in Indian mythology is the self
Satcitananda, which means
Sat, that which is
Cit, that which is consciousness
That which is ananda is bliss
And in other words
What exists, reality itself, is gorgeous

It is the plenum, the fullness of total joy
Wow-wee
And all those stars if you look out in the sky
A firework display like you see on the Fourth of July
Which is a great occasion for celebration
The universe is a celebration
It's a firework show to celebrate that existence is

Wow-wee
And then they say, but, however
There's no point just sustaining bliss
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 could conceive
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
Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's gonna be
And you would dig that and would come out of that and you would 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 is not

The first thing he says to himself is, "Man, get lost"
Because he gives himself away
The nature of love is self-abandonment
Not clinging to one's self
Throwing yourself out, as in for example in basketball
You're always getting rid of the ball
You say to the other fellow, "Have a ball"
See, and uh, that-that keeps things moving
That's the nature of life

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