Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Buddhist awareness as a dream, yoga dream theology on reality?

My question is a simple one. As far as the principles of buddhist theology and yoga, how does one place awareness in the perspective of the view point of life being a dream. My fundamental proplem is that lucid dreams tell us that awareness is singular and consciousness resides in everything else. It tells us that we are alone and that everything else is under our control at some level. In this perspective, the only one that has awareness is "me" while everyone else is an illusion brought on by the mirror of consciousness. "I" believe others have awareness so they do....Is this incorrect? I understand that awareness is not bound by time but even when at the most awaken state, when experience organizes it, you alone experience it. So in the theology of yoga practices and buddhist invovling the "life is a dream" scenerio, do others have awareness or am "I" the only one. The answer should be apparent however it seems paradoxical do to the illusion of time however at the basic level of a dreamed life it is fundamentally impossible for awareness to survive even a subconscious depiction do to the dualistic nature. In Buddhist and yoga, if I am then I am is the only truth and all else is not, like "neither this nor that." Wouldn't it be a greater illusion to add awareness to others since in a lucid dream it is a misnomer of sorts?

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