By way of introduction let me state that Agent M is half asleep. A sleeping sentient, a sleep writer. Who wishes to wake up. Who like many has realised a kind of lucid dreaming quality to living reality. When you become aware that you are dreaming, the dream doesn't end, you just know its a dream, but then some new possibilities arise. Something is aware that if its only a dream there is another reality called AWAKE! Something stirs . Now you can stay in the dream and get lost in it , and I do all the time, or you can dream the dream and watch it at the same time. A kind of eyes wide shut meditation, difficult to maintain, or you can wake up, even more difficult.....still waking up is what this blog is about.
Waking up to what?
Well that is unanswerable. Words are not going to do it .The most enlightened mystics , the most inspired poets, crazy wisdom teachers down through the ages have done their best, far more eloquent than i, they can they only point to AWAKE. The Buddha did about the best job with the pointing out instructions, but he refrained from talking too much about what its like after you wake up. So waking up to the WHAT is not what this blog is about.
To the degree that we have awoken from this world we can compare notes, we all exist in one form or another and we all share the same present, but its not about waking up to
It is about waking up FROM............
And the from i would like to address here is
suffering . The Buddha nailed it in one.
The dream wouldn't be so bad if when we were dreaming it we didn't suffer, but we all do to varying degrees, all sentients , througout time , everywhere.
Another word for the dream is the Illusion. We are living in the illusion of a reality.Waking up means seeing throught the illusion of things as they seem to be, and seeing things as they really are.
By seeing i mean realising , knowing, not believing in something.
What is so experiential about the Buddhas approach to waking up is that he starts wilh varifiable facts, that you yourself can know directly,he is not asking you to believe in something outside of your current experience, like Nivarna. He is not prosletising about a heaven that awaits you or promising something that he will do for you. You have to wake up to yourself, to your true nature, and you can begin to do just that exactly where you find yourself, right here right now. Sleeping.......
Samsara, this everyday ordinary world, IS the very place you wake up, with all its seeming distractions and with all of our attachments and aversions to them.
We all need some training in waking up , or at least I know I do, and i suspect that if you are reading this you already are practicing some kind of approach to realising Truth. My current primary source of wake up training is what I understand of Buddhas insights, but I got here by a long and circuitous path of teachings and of teachers, crazy and serious , experiences and experiments, and like you from simply being curious about the world around me.
Form Follows Emptiness is a precursor , a primer , a pointer , to a deeper more profound absolute truth and that is FORM IS EMPTYNESS - EMPTYNESS IS FORM which of course is the big wake up call of the HEART SUTRA.
Wake up to that one and you will know what waking up to the WHAT really is ....
