— “Living a life with no fear and recognizing that death is an illusion, makes it worth it.”
The nature of ultimate reality can only be understood when looking from its own viewpoint. That is to say, one’s conditioned perspective of reality must be put aside.
The simplest explanation is to consider that one’s life in the world and universe has the characterization of a dream. Into this dream, each dreamer is born. To the dreamer, the world and universe have the appearance of being real. The dreamer takes himself to be real, and therefore the world and universe this person is “in” to be real. The dreamer “knows” that he has “come into” this life, therefore at some point he will “go out” of life. The dreamer “knows” that although he will die, the world and universe and fellow dreamers will persists after his death; that the dream will continue when the dreamer no longer exists.
None of this is so. When the dreamer ceases to be, the dream ceases to be. Only within the dream is it a legitimate question to ask, “How then can life and the world and universe be?” Any answer would entail the processes of time, space and cause—and—effect. Such processes occur only within the dream itself. Therefore, any answer will be an answer within the unreal dream.
The point is that all that is apparent to the dreamer is simply that: an illusory appearance. What appears to be real or actual is not the same thing as what is real or actual. What is actual, is ultimate reality. Ultimate reality can be characterized as empty; no-thing or nothingness.
Valeria Teles interviews Robert Wolfe — the author of “Emptiness: Robert Wolfe On The Ultimate Teaching Of Ajata/Sunyata.”
Robert Wolfe, 85, lives in Ojai, California. He has been teaching Self-realization for more than 30 years. He is the author of: Living Nonduality, Abiding in Nondual Awareness, Awakening to Infinite Presence, Always–Only–One, Ramana Maharshi: The Teachings of Self-Realization, One Essence, Science of the Sages and The Enlightenment Teachings of Jesus: The Gospel of Thomas.
To learn more about Robert Wolfe and his work, please visit: https://www.livingnonduality.org/ and https://ajatasunyata.com/
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