In a dream Mulla Nasrudin saw himself being counted out coins and when there were nine silver pieces in his hand the invisible donor stopped giving them.
Nasrudin shouted: I MUST HAVE TEN! So loudly that he woke himself up.
Finding that all the money had disappeared he closed his eyes again and murmured,
All right then give them back - I will take the nine!
Life is a dream so enjoy it; but do not ask for more because then you only disturb the dream and get nothing except a disturbed night. Be a witness to the dreaming mind and then there is transcendence: then you go beyond dreaming and beyond mind itself. And know well that there is an awakening BELOW the dreaming mind which is nothing but just a disturbed dream. One can get to this below-dreaming state of awakening through asking for more, desiring more - as ordinarily we all do.
There is also an awakening above the dreaming mind - the real awakening. in comparison to which man ordinarily is asleep. One can get to this awakening through witnessing the dreaming mind - and unless one gets to it one is not really alive.
Nasrudin shouted: I MUST HAVE TEN! So loudly that he woke himself up.
Finding that all the money had disappeared he closed his eyes again and murmured,
All right then give them back - I will take the nine!
Life is a dream so enjoy it; but do not ask for more because then you only disturb the dream and get nothing except a disturbed night. Be a witness to the dreaming mind and then there is transcendence: then you go beyond dreaming and beyond mind itself. And know well that there is an awakening BELOW the dreaming mind which is nothing but just a disturbed dream. One can get to this below-dreaming state of awakening through asking for more, desiring more - as ordinarily we all do.
There is also an awakening above the dreaming mind - the real awakening. in comparison to which man ordinarily is asleep. One can get to this awakening through witnessing the dreaming mind - and unless one gets to it one is not really alive.
