Let's talk about last night's dream.
There were three scenes in the dream. I would say the first of them. In my dream, I was playing tennis with a group of people in a corridor. The tennis ball rolled downstairs to the basement. When I went to pick it up, I suddenly remembered that someone had once told me that the dark place underground, to avoid the past, was strange inside. Then fear arose in my heart. In an instant, the people in the original corridor were gone, the lights were all dimmed, I was anxious to go downstairs, and the elevator had no electricity. Turn around to find a room with a light on. Pushing open the door, there were four figures inside. I shouted, and the four of them turned slowly, without any expression on their faces. In consciousness these are four ghosts. I held my foot against the door and wouldn't let them out. When we are anxious, we suddenly ask ourselves: Why should I be afraid? At this thought, the lights in the corridor were all on again, and the original people who had played together appeared again.
The last two scenes of the dream are not related to this.
In the past ten years, I have dreamed of these four ghosts three times before and after. The first two times were vague images, only this time, it was very clear in front of you. When I woke up in the morning and thought about this dream, I understood that everything was created by the state of mind. In the dream, there are ghosts. The heart is not afraid, everything is business as usual.
Dreams don't just happen at night. Everything during the day is like a dream.
What we see, hear, and feel is neither real nor illusory, like a dream. We hear all kinds of sounds in our ears. These sounds come, either near or far. We know that there is a speed limit to the propagation of sound. Then, the sound that the ear receives at the same time is not happening in the moment, but a sound created at different times. Just as at night, when we look up at the sky, the light from those stars falls into our eyes years ago. Some light has gone for tens of thousands of years, and some have gone for hundreds of millions of years. The stars in the night are all stars of different years, and some of them are no longer in their current state, or even disappeared. So, like a dream, it is not true, it is real.
In this dream-like scenario, we cannot be fooled by these illusory things. We should be clear about our state of mind. Holding your heart, you hold yourself. Instead of handing yourself over to the outside world. Therefore, if you are afraid of ghosts, ghosts will appear. Not afraid of ghosts, pinch and disappear without a trace.
Life is like a dream.
If the heart is not afraid, there is no difficulty; if the heart is firm, it can reach the goal; the heart is full of happiness, and life is full of flowers; the heart is focused on the present, and life is simple and rich.
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