Beyond dreaming
There’s something that lies beyond the threshold of a dream. Beyond the threshold of a dream is waking, eternal waking, which is the superconscious. The superconscious awareness is beyond dreaming and sleeping, in deep sleep, beyond what we would call normal waking. It’s a state of eternal, timeless consciousness, in which there’s no sense of form or self as we’ve grown to know it. And with no self, there are no dreams. Perfect peace, perfect light, the awareness of your own immortality, beyond discussion. All dreams come forth from the superconscious and all dreams return to the superconscious. The art of dreaming is a pathway to enlightenment, one of the many.
“Who is dreaming all of this? That is who you want to get to. Whom you wish to find.”
– Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz
That I will suggest, if you’re really interested in our special catalog, which we keep under the counter, then there’s something else. Of course, in the special catalog there are no dreams listed. It’s an empty catalog. But that’s only for particular customers who have been with us for a long time. We show them that catalog. It’s the dreamless catalog.
So then, if you attain enlightenment, what that means is that you are dreamless. Or, you can come in and out of dreams if you choose to. But you’ll always remember that they’re dreams.
Our special catalog is under the counter. But first you have to become a good customer. After you’ve rented all our best videos–and we’ll be glad to–and you’ve seen them and viewed them and you can do that at will, once you can change all the levels of attention, then we’ll show you our special catalog.
Each dream is a world in itself. The state of awareness that you are in is a dream. Now, when you’re in the dream, you don’t necessarily see that. It’s only upon stepping outside of the dream that we become aware that we were in a dream.
Quotes by Dr. Frederick Lenz, Rama, reprinted or included here with permission from The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism