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.
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.
Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in poetry, there was certainly no poetry in money, and so it was all even.
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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