If you are a card carrying monotheist who has little remaining interest in the defense of plurality, then Mind and non-duality can be viewed as synonyms. The dream features this as “surrender to the truth,” which, as far as drama goes, is and on and off spectacle. One day you are flat with the fact that right now is what Mind is dreaming, and, just in case you use this to do “smug,” it’s gone and you are back in duck soup as a dreamer still displaying devotion to the fiction that some things exist outside of this dream. Oh yeah?
Like what?
Mind is dreaming this whole remarkable saga, called “reality,” including the full cast of characters and their level of devotion to the fiction they are ‘the real people’ they insist they are. In a very crude sense, since nothing is really that cut and dry, there are those above the line, within “The Spectrum of Creation,” who do “hard time” in the dream because they use time, often exclusively, to defend “The Master Lie,” that ‘this’ is real, and all ‘the people’ are the people they insist they are. They not only dismiss the truth the dream is the context for ‘everything,’ including their contribution to the drama, but they are famous for their level of amnesia. They don’t hear what you are saying. You sound like static to them. They are dreamers who show up determined to prove nothing is content in a dream, and this usually requires high levels of duality to float the fiction the self belongs to a person, of all things.
The Mind-generated drama called “reality” divides the dreamers into those who create drama to prolong the fiction ‘this’ is not a dream, and those with lower levels of amnesia who don’t find the idea this is a dream that amazing, or reason to be alarmed even. Above the line, you can predict that the dream will feature “tragedy” because dreamers court suffering to drag out the fiction “life” is all about ‘real people,’ which may be the oxymoron for all time.
The shift from above the line to below the line is subtle, at least initially, but it picks up speed once the dreamer realizes that Mind is the author of “The Whole Show,” which often replaces “tragedy” with “comedy” because the dreamers are hell bent for leather to use suffering to prove they are the people they insist they are, and the dream is the context for all of this “awfulization.” In this light, is there any duality between “tragedy” and “comedy?” Both reflect where a dreamer is with the truth Mind is dreaming ‘everything,’ including where ‘the dreamers’ are with that fact.
Below the line, “tragedy” is viewed as “comedy” because nothing ‘going on’ has, or ever had, anything to do with people. The dream is the context for both, and both disclose where every dreamer is right now in the dream with the truth that Mind is all there is. Dreamers who use time to drag out the fiction they are ‘real people’ in this dream rely on “tragedy” to maintain the fiction nothing is content in a dream. There would be no “tragedy” in the dream unless dreamers filled the dream with the fiction ‘real people’ are having “tragic lives.”
When a dreamer is delivering this parody, listen, watch, show compassion, and if a moment arises in which you can promote even a little relief from the burden of the lie everything is real, and often “awful,” do it. Otherwise, know Mind features the full panorama of drama, from the good, the bad, the ugly and the very ugly. This is not some simple, two-dimensional dream. It features ’people’ dealing with the full spectrum of possibilities, either stuck way above the line in the world of “tragedy,” or beginning to show signs of reconnecting with the fact nothing exists outside of the dream. The Buddha is smiling that enigmatic smile of knowing Mind is dreaming “The Whole Show,” with no exceptions.
The more a dreamer is stuck above the line, the more amnesia keeps the fiction in place that “tragedy” is people-based. If you view the “comedy” of this moment, keep it to your self, or wait to see if that dreamer is ready to deliver a parody about the parody it is stuck in. Those dreamers who do “hard time” in this dream do so in defense of the fiction “life” is all about people, and it’s a “rough deal.” This is not some artifact: this describes how most dreamers use time in this dream.
In fact, isn’t ‘time’ the venue in which dreamers do “hard time.” How much proof do we require to accept the fact this is “The Main Event” in this dream? How many dreamers do you know who don’t rely on some form of ‘grudge’ to give the invented self a full time job in this dream? Some dreamers are ready to see that, but the majority show up to fill time with ‘grudge’ to defend the fiction duality is real. Without ‘grudge,’ duality is suspect, and without duality, how can a dreamer defend the invented self as if it actually belongs to a person?
It’s a package deal in the dream. Mind already worked it all out.
By: Dr. Gregory Tucker
About "The Recovery Process"
Welcome to “The Recovery Process.” Over twenty years ago I read the works of Wei wu Wei and, as a practicing Clinical Psychologist, it became obvious that his synthesis of Buddhism outlined a very different approach to Psychotherapy. He wrote eight books, all gems, and I decided to synthesize his works into what I now refer to as “The Recovery Process.”
I work with clients over the phone using this process. For reasons that will become apparent, I no longer call myself a Psychologist. I don’t advertise, rent office space or solicit business. Clients refer clients to me because the process works. It works because it recovers the truth which allows you to identify who you are, who you pretend to be, as well as what “reality” actually is.
This approach is 180 degrees out of phase with our traditional views about reality because truth is 180 degrees out of phase with what we refer to as “reality.” There is the truth and, as a context, it includes the sum of the lies we assemble to create and defend our fictitious view of reality.
The Western view holds that everything is real, including what shows up as “reality,” including the self, people, and all the suffering we endure in a lifetime. The Eastern view, espoused by Wei Wu Wei and many others, holds that none of this is true. In a sense, “The Recovery Process” views The Eastern View as closer to the truth than The Western View, and that The Eastern View is the context for The Western View; namely that The Western View represents the sum of the lies we assemble to defend “The Master Lie,” that everything is real, especially the self and the people who argue for the self, often using the creation of suffering as the vehicle to prolong the fiction the self is real.
“The Recovery Process” identifies what the truth is and proceeds to provide the reminders the client requires to recover the truth of who they are in fact, and to use truth to identify the lies the client depends on to prolong the fiction that everything is real, the self in particular.
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