5 posts tagged “dream”

One must be ambitious in order to be successful. Existence becomes meaningless otherwise. But being equipped for something you deserve is important. Once you’re sure that you are physically, mentally or intellectually equipped to deserve what you aim for, go ahead and motivate yourself. You have to lead yourself to your destiny before it comes to you. Success might not come easy to you; not every one gets a breakthrough very early in their lives. Every one has to struggle for some time before you made it. But please don’t get compromise on what you wanted.

       Focus and determination come within the orbit of motivation. But the strengths of self confidence and optimism have to come from within you. Being positive is very important. I wanted to live on a very positive note. But for my positive attitude, I'd cease to be. Life is full of depressing moments. I know, its tough not to be affected by them, since we are all human. But i guess, there's a possibility, if we maintain an optimisitic temperament. Don't let the world judge you..how would others know what you are capable of ? Failure or criticisms don't bog me down. You might fall, but that doesn't mean you don't deserve to be successful. 

 Failure is not forever. And Criticism is nothing but an individual's opinion among millions of other opinions.

   ENLIGHTENMENT has often been compared with waking from an illusion of false reality and realising that what we perceive as fact is, in fact, a blend of game, role playing, deception and shuffling around in half slumber. It is of arising out of maya, a phenomenal world which arbitrarily separates objects and people and creates for us the misapprehension that what we perceive is the only and final reality. Maya does not, of course, deny the everyday reality of the physical world; it simply means that absolute reality is so much more real that everyday reality seems like mere fabrication in comparison. Also, there is always the danger that appearances could blind us to something more sublime within everything. Something that could, if pursued, lead to perhaps a more transcendent reality.
   A good analogy is dreaming. Like in life, almost no one questions the integrity or the actual authenticity of the contents of a dream where everything is taken for granted. It’s only when people wake out of one that they wonder in retrospect how they could possibly have been duped by patently absurd facades, dramatis personae and situations — all functioning in a matrix of unadulterated ill logic. However, not everyone is fooled. There are people who have what are called “lucid dreams”. These are dreams where the dreamer realises during the course of a dream that it’s indeed a dream and that, indeed, one is actually lying in bed and is asleep. It’s like suddenly becoming more aroused and taking less for granted. Perhaps even a little like being enlightened. Or as George Santayana put it: “Waking life is a dream controlled.”
   That the road to true enlightenment is one fraught with snares and endless pitfalls which can trick even advanced adepts, is something quite generally acknowledged — thanks to lesser spiritual guides who mislead their clientele into phoney awakenings.
   Lucid dreamers also sometimes fall for this trap when they dream that they’ve woken up! Such people then genuinely believe they’re back in normal waking life — only till such time as when small details which don’t gel with reality makes them realise that they’re still dreaming. That’s because reality is not so much about what’s real as what’s not. Interestingly, psychologists call the phenomenon a “false awakening”. For a lot of us it can be said that we go through our lives, at best, as a permanent false awakening from where there’s neither the power to dream nor the will to wake.