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The View That Must Be
Tested
The waking world is not a ” place,”
a fixed shape, but a sizeless realm, an undefinable
dimension just as the condition or region into which you
enter in dreams is an undefinable realm. The world of our
experience is not fixed, like a moon or any object, but it
is fluid, like space or light. It is operative as a play of
possibility, rather than fixed mechanical destiny. And its
conditions in every moment arise not merely according to
physical laws, but according to psycho-physical laws. The
universe in which Earth appears is a psycho-physical system
(psycho-spatial and psycho-temporal), not a mere physical or
material one. The same world or realm, in other of its
aspects, is seen in dreams and sleeping. This view is
ancient and must be tested. It is native to man and makes
him wonder, fear, seek, and hide.
Every human individual represents
only a limited realization of the psycho-physical scheme of
appearances. The more psychic or conscious he becomes, the
more he sees the world as a Psychic or Conscious Process. It
is not only the man who is a psycho-physical process. His
world is also. Free life begins only when we begin to
operate from this profound premise. This thesis is itself
the most significant consideration of Man. To enter into the
Truth of our condition we must enter into psychic, heart
felt relationship with the world. Then we see not only the
body of the world, but its mind also, its subjective or
subtle places, and its degrees of self.
But when even this soulful knowing
shows itself to be suffering, then Enjoyment is awake, prior
to the birth of worlds, and beings, and you that
contemplates the Mystery. The waking world is a
psycho-physical realm. Everything appears, then, as in
dreams, in correspondence with the tendencies, high and low,
which are the individual. When this becomes clear one ceases
to identify with preferences, judgments, perceptions,
reactions, experiences, forms of knowing, or the pursuit of
strategies, high or low, since it is all illusory, changing,
and held in place by these very actions. When you awaken,
you are no longer concerned about the dream world, since it
is all phantoms, created in a moment by tendencies that are
the real creators of every circumstance of dream. Just so,
when this waking world is seen truly, it becomes clear that
the phantoms of its appearance are endless, appearing out of
a formless depth, and that true responsibility is relative
to the forces of one’s own apparent psycho-physical
activity, which creates the theatre and calls up all that is
good or bad. The realm itself is not to valued or rejected
in terms of any of its content. The realm cannot even be
defined. Where do you dream? Where is a place? Rather, one’
own action, one’s very self must be seen as a contraction
from the Condition of Radiance, or Love, in which the very
world is floating. There must be awakening to that Condition
which is prior to the play. Such is the only real
responsibility. The rest is the destiny of complication.
When the true Condition is realized, the reality of all
distractions, of self, of action, of world, of God apart, is
undone. There is one necessity to the dream, but there is
apparent persistence of the ”dream.” See it truly and abide
in the Presence and Radiance that is Real. That Communion is
truly awake, even as the dream conventions remain, since it
notices nothing, but abides as itself, whatever
arises.
We appear in this waking world by
the very same process by which we appear in dreams. And the
solid waking world is, when seen in Truth, no more real,
necessary, fixed, significant, or true than any random dream
place. When this begins to become even a little obvious, a
process of awakening has begun, similar to waking in the
morning from your dreams. When you begin to suspect yourself
a little, then you begin to become distracted by another and
formless dimension, much as the sleeper begins to sense his
bed cloth, his solid body, and his room. At that point, one
may become sensitive to the Spiritual Master, the Presence
of the Condition of things, one who is already awake, the
paradoxical man. He is, in person, that dimension which is
Truth. He calls you constantly and roughens your feet. He
intensifies the sunlight in your room. He roes not awaken
you to another place or dream, as if your mother shakes you
awake to play in rooms protected or threatened by your
father. Rather, he serves an awakening in which there is no
realm, complication, and no adventure. He does not awaken
you to another place. He awakens you in place, so that even
while the dream of living survives, the destiny or even
noticing of all effects escapes you.
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