Dream, rather than let yourself be dreamt
Interpretation
Take control of your dreams and aspirations, rather than being a passive participant in life.
This quote suggests the importance of being proactive in pursuing one's own dreams and goals. It encourages individuals to actively shape their destiny instead of allowing fate or external circumstances to dictate their journey.
In practice
In a motivational speech urging young people to pursue their dreams.
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.
Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.
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
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.
Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?
We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.
I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. And each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that.
There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
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