Lets suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream. And you would naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have EVERY kind of pleasure you see… and after several nights you would say, “wow well that was pretty great!” Now lets, lets um, lets have a surprise. Lets have a dream which isn’t under control. Where something is going to happen to me that I don’t know what it’s going to be. Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you were dreaming. And finally you would dream… where you are now….
If you awaken from this allusion and you understand black implies white, self implies other, life implies death, you can FEEL yourself not as a stranger in the world, not as something here on probation, not as something that has arrived here as a fluke. But you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely amendful. What you are facing deep deep down, far far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.