Waking Up

Waking Up To What?

Are we waking up to what is happening in the world, or waking up to what is happening in the mind, diverting conscious awareness?
It is consciousness that wakes up when it realises it has been lulled into a dream state.

Lull: Latin lallare ‘sing to sleep’.

If we are merely waking up to worldly deception and reacting, this is still the dream state, as we argue about the different sides, when it’s one huge theatrical show. Everything is being turned upside down for us to actually see deception; we’re being shown us the deceit, so that we become involved. This is not waking up.

Mara is a deceptive mind,
wanting us all to ‘sing from the same hymn sheet’.

Mara is very clever, too clever for its own boots.
We wake up when we stop believing Mara.