11. EVERYTHING IS LIKE A DREAM
We human beings think that what happens when we are awake is real, but what happens in a dream is only a dream. It is an illusion. If you borrow my car from me in my dream, when I wake up, I will not come to you and ask you to return my car. That would be silly of me! It happened in my dream. But if you borrowed my car when I was awake, then I would come to you and ask you to return it.
What we don't realize is that while a dream is just a dream, what happens in this world is also nothing more than a dream. It seems to be real as long as we are alive. But in the end, when it is time to go, everything seems to be transient just like a dream.
Somehow, we have been conditioned to believe that dreams are illusions, but our waking life is true. But this is not the Truth. Life is like a game of monopoly. We fight when we play as we try to take over hotels and properties, but in the end when the game is over, we put everything back into the box. It was only a game!
Life too is just a game. When will we realize this Truth? We come with nothing and go with nothing. But throughout life, we imagine our possessions to belong to us just as we consider our relationships to be real. We must realize the Truth that everything that happens in life is like a drama, a show. Nothing is real, we come and we go.