Sweeter dreams
Over and over we look to the experience of the bodymind to check for progress.
This is completely natural.
Where else would I look?
If my life is not becoming easier despite all my reading, listening, and inquiry, then something obviously isn’t working!
So the fact that I still get angry means I’ve not seen it yet.
The endless stream of doubts means I’m not there yet.
That there’s still dissatisfaction proves more is needed.
It’s looking in the wrong direction.
It’s like trying to determine the state of the dreamer by the content of their dreams. We believe that progress must mean sweeter dreams.
It’s almost impossible for a mind (ego, separate self — the mind is the self) to grasp that this is not about it.
The mind is irrelevant to nondual recognition. It has no job to get done, no role to fulfill, no way to gauge progress, and no say. The mind is a dream-mind.
Nonduality is knowing our essential being as the dreaming, and the dream as a dream.
This recognition naturally leads to a loss of obsession with what exactly is going on in the dream, and an end to looking for signs of progress there.
Dreams can be sweet, frustrating, or downright scary — it says nothing about what I AM.
