Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that the ultimate goal of dreaming is to achieve true freedom rather than just making existing conditions better.
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche emphasizes that while many people strive to enhance their current circumstances, the deeper purpose of dreaming is about liberation from all limitations and attachments. Itβs a call for individuals to seek a profound transformation that transcends mere improvement, aiming for a state where they are unbound by relative conditions and societal constraints.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire a group of students.
All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and lucid experience...Genuine integration of this point produces a profound change in the individual's response to the world. Grasping and aversion is greatly diminished, and the emotional tangles that once seemed so compelling are experienced as the tug of dream stories, and no more.
We enter the bardo, the intermediate state after #β death , just as we enter dream after falling asleep. If our experience of #β dream lacks clarity and is of confused emotional states and habitual reactivity, we will have trained ourselves to experience the processes of death in the same way.
The natural purity of our mind is of no use to us if we are not aware of it, _x000D_ _x000D_ and if we do not integrate it with our moving mind. _x000D_ _x000D_ If we realize our innate purity, but only integrate with it from time to time, we are not totally awakened._x000D_ _x000D_ Being in total integration all the time is final realization
Dream, rather than let yourself be dreamt
From the body of the unborn essence arises the sphere of light, and from that sphere of light arises wisdom. From the wisdom arises the seed syllable and from the seed syllable arises the complete Mandala, the deity and the retinue.
No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress. It is also a first step in our attempt to find the principles implicit in familiar observational notions.
I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or convention which logic one adopts. I disagree with this view.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.
Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.
We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.
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