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Question: To crush the ego is what one would think and feel is necessary to identify more with the 'Greater Source' or 'Universe' How would a student of the dream go about accomplishing this!
Answer: A mirage can only seem problematic when its true nature is not recognized. When the mirage is known for what it is, it does not suddenly disappear, nor does it have to. To know that one cannot fetch water from it is enough. Likewise, the ego illusion is not in its appearance, but in the way it is perceived. When there is the conviction that what we are is limited to the ego, we are under a sort of hypnotic spell. Once it is clear that our thirst for insight and liberation cannot be quenched at the mirage of the ego, the investment lessens. This understanding does not depend on erasing the ego, but simply sees through it to its illusory nature. What is more, attempts to do away with the ego, are now recognized as the ego illusion itself. Ultimately, the personal 'I' and the 'Impersonal Self' are not two. It is the One Universal Self appearing as this 'I'. Self-re-cognition shows that there is no one to accomplish anything, yet everything unfolds presently as this. There is no independent separate character to identify with the 'Greater Source.' There is only the 'Greater Source' regardless of how it appears. Many waves may rise and fall, but they are the expression of a single ocean. There may be a variety of ornaments, all crafted from the single substance of pure gold; there may be many appearances, but there is only One Consciousness. In clarity the student of the dream is recognized as part of the dream, and all studying of the dream is known as nothing but the dream. Obviously the dream character cannot dream her self beyond the dream in which she appears and disappears. THAT -in and to which the whole dream appears- does neither come nor go. IT does not need to wake up as IT is fully awake to the dream. IT appears as you in the dream, and IT is the common ground of all phenomena. This 'singularity' is the True Self, closer than close and presently aware of the reading of these words. THIS Presence/Awareness is the father and mother of all dreams, even the dream of awakening. You, as an assumed, dreamed up individual, cannot become or reach 'the Greater Source', YOU -as Totality- are THAT.
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Stephen: There's just consciousness. If anyone gets that, the whole concept will be burned out -there's no one to get enlightened. There's no enlightenment, and there's no one who's un-enlightened. It's just a story, a concept -it does exist as a concept. There is a concept of enlightenment. But it's only a concept!
Jason: We could ask, does the mind become enlightened? Does the body become enlightened? Is there such a thing as enlightenment? Stephen: Anyone who is caught up in the concepts of enlightenment will have all sorts of expectations- well, you should be loving and kind, and emanate this positive, loving and kind energy-no! Kill the Buddha! If you see the Buddha on the road-if you see the loving and kind, peaceful Buddha on the road, kill him! [laughter] If there are any concepts of how there should be loving and kind behavior all the time, kill it. This is what Huang Po is saying, there is no difference between all the Buddhas and all the sentient beings- they're all One Mind. So if there are any ideas that you should be loving and kind, or emanate any positive energy-kill it. [laughter] I like some of the old Zen masters. They're really direct. It's so refreshing and clear. There are no Enlightened men or ignorant men, and there is no oblivion. Even Enlightenment, the Absolute, Reality, Sudden Attainment-every one of them-are concepts; they have nothing to do with the Buddha-Mind. 
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~ Rabindranath Tagore ~
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Although its light is wide and great, the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide. The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop. ~ Dogen ~
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