Isnt this world a dream/illusion? How does one wake up?

Answer 1

Only with help of yourself.

You need to calm the mind which is running you now. Once you have done that you need to find yourself inside the temple that is your body.

Visit this inner temple everyday. and once you find your true home inside you will wake up.

people who learn to die on command now this and we call it enlightenment, the temple the books refer to is your body, you have the path within you, only we ignore it.

Answer 2

Its actually the opposite this world is an absolute necessity otherwise it would not exist. The illusion is that our religious leaders, scientists and philosophers all lay claim to something that is so far from primitive human understanding it does not matter. Human subjectivity and abstractions are not illusions they are as real as anything elese otherwise we would not have subjective sensory experiences. Reality comes in layers of connectivity however stupefied scientist and philosophers label subjective experience delusional or illusory yet in the future subjective experience, through an interface with virtual reality and artificial intelligence, will become more real and more valuable than objective space. The degrees of freedom in subjective space are vastly greater than objective reality. If we start to explore the infinite textures of self and universe whole new domains of possibility and potenatiality will open up. Some perceptions of reality will become less important while others will come into focus however they are all real in their own context. we will come to see that every knowledge system is radically incomplete yet every moment is a perfect reflection of the Absolute Necessity of every moment in time. Intuitive understanding Absolute Infinty will lead to intuitive comprehension of Absolute Love and the non-dual nature of insight. We will come to see that no-thing is born and no-thing will die.

Answer 3

No, it isn't. Rather your experience of reality is 'delusional' because of your own conditioned illusions about self/others limitations. Waking is a gradual process of giving up your suffering through a growing awareness of the cause and effect relationship between one's beliefs and the patterned experience of reality. Reality changes as you change your beliefs - which control perception, feelings, thoughts and reactions. The failsafe system is your experience of suffering which provokes the internal question, "Why is this happening to me?"

When there is no value to you in a particular pattern of suffering it will simply disappear. However, conditioned ego fear and attachments are sometimes tangled and difficult to transcend/discard.

Answer 4

This World is a dream
an illusion
to keep us asleep

to awaken
we need to "sleep"
the slumber deep
conscious with embrace
conscious as before...
not in this world
but for this world

and realms of awakenings
shall open up
and this dream shall break
and bathe you in
a conscious flow
of enlightenment
an awakening
in fresh glow
a glow which is not
an illusion

Answer 5

You only realize that you are in a dream when you wake up. To wake up, you must finish sleeping.
So keep dreaming and live like it's you last day to dream- and when you finally wake up, you will know that your dream was the best you could make it.

Answer 6

The world is a miserable illusion we can wake up only by abandoning it and getting attached to GOD that is the only reality, only through attachment to GOD can our miseries be reduced and we can attain the ultimate aim of liberation from the bodily exile.

Answer 7

Life is an illusion which one cannot be woken up from. Either one ignores this and lives on or one realizes this and leaves everything and becomes a hermit.
I am currently ignoring this.

Answer 8

.It is said of Chuang Tzu:

One day in the morning he started crying and weeping. His disciples gathered and they said, "Master, what are you doing? What has happened to you?"

Chuang Tzu said, "I am in a fix. Last night I dreamed that I had become a butterfly."

The disciples said, "But what is there to weep and cry and be so sad about? Everybody dreams of many things! Nothing is wrong in being a butterfly in a dream."

Chuang Tzu said, "That is not the problem. Now I am worried, now a doubt has arisen and I don't know now how to reach a conclusion. In the night Chuang Tzu dreamed that he had become a butterfly. Now the doubt has come: it may be now the butterfly is dreaming that she has become a Chuang,Tzu."

And who is to decide, and how? If a Chuang Tzu can become a butterfly in the dream, then why not the other way -- a butterfly sitting on a flower may be dreaming that she has become a Buddha.

There is no problem, the thing is simple. Chuang Tzu has raised a beautiful and basic problem: how can you be certain of the outside, that it is not a dream? There have been many philosophies which tried to prove that the whole world is a dream. Nobody believes in those philosophies, but nobody has been able to refute them either.

Berkeley, in the West, has proved that the whole existence is a dream. Nobody believes in him, not even he himself really believes in it, because his whole life shows that he doesn't believe it is a dream. If you insult him he gets angry. If you throw a stone at him he tries to avoid. If you hit him he runs to the doctor because blood flows out of him.

This is how Dr. Johnson tried to refute Berkeley's theory:

They were friends, and walking one day Berkeley said, "Now I have proved it, that the whole life is a dream, and I feel that nobody can disprove it."

And yes, he was right. Up to now nobody has been able to refute it -- it is impossible to refute! How to refute it?

Dr. Johnson bent down, took a stone and threw the stone on Berkeley's feet. He screamed. Dr. Johnson said, "This stone is real."

Berkeley laughed and he said, "That cannot refute my philosophy, because my scream may be just a dream you have dreamed. This blood flowing out of my leg -- how can you prove this is real and not a dream?"

Because in dream also, if you are hit blood will come out. And in dream also you have screamed many times. In dream also, when there is a nightmare, you perspire and you tremble and your heartbeat goes fast and crazy, and even if the dream is broken it takes a few minutes to settle. You know the dream is broken, you have become awake, and you know it was a dream, but still the heart goes on throbbing and the fear still lingers and the perspiration on the forehead is there.

It can happen in a dream, there is no way to disprove it. Outside, at the most, we can say there are appearances. The thing in itself cannot be known that way.

There is only one reality of which you can be absolutely certain and that is the reality within. You can move within. You can be certain only of yourself, nothing else. But once you penetrate this certainty that you are...

Remember, even in a dream you are. You may have become a butterfly, but you are. Even for a dream to exist, at least YOU are needed. Everything may be dream but you are not, because without you even a dream cannot exist. Consciousness is needed even to dream.

You can prove everything is a dream, but you cannot prove that the dreamer is a dream -- because the dreamer has to be real, otherwise dreams cannot exist. Only one thing is certain and that is you. Only one thing is absolutely certain and that is your reality within. Conversion means moving from an uncertain world, the world of the appearances, to the world of the reality.

And once you know that inner certainty and you are grounded, once you know that you are, then from THAT certainty the vision changes, the quality changes. Then you look at the outside world and a different world is revealed -- that world is God.

When you are rooted in a certain reality, absolutely certain, then your look has a different quality: then there is trust. Now you can look... and the whole world changes. Then there are no appearances, but the reality, that which is really real.
What is that which is really real? It is not these forms. Forms change, but that which moves through the forms is unchanging.

You were a child, then you were young, then you have become old -- the form has been continuously changing. Every moment your body is changing, the form is changing; but if you look within, you have remained the same.

You were a small, atomic cell in your mother's womb, not even visible to the naked eye; then a small child; then a young man filled with many dreams, desires; and then, frustrated, dejected, a failure; an old man. But if you look within, everything has remained the same. The consciousness never changes.

If you look within you will be surprised: you cannot feel how old you are, because there is no age to consciousness. If you close your eyes you cannot say you are twenty or forty or sixty, because the age belongs to the body, to the shell. Your reality is ageless; it has never been born and it is not going to die.

Once you are centered in this eternal, non-changing, unmoving absolute, then your quality changes. Then you can look, then you have become a mirror. In that mirror the reality is mirrored. But first you have to become a mirror. You are waving, shaking so much you cannot mirror anything -- you distort. Mind distorts the reality and consciousness reveals it.

Man is asleep. Even while he is awake, he is not awake. This waking state is just a kind of subtle sleep -- dreams Continue. Even while you are awake there is a substratum of dreams, a continuum. This is not true awakening. The true awakening is when there is no thought in the mind, no dream in the mind, no desire in the mind... when the mind is utterly empty of all content and there is only pure consciousness, when the sky is utterly empty of all the clouds. That is true awakening: consciousness without content. That's the goal of all meditations, and that's the search of all the religions: now to come to a metaphysical awakening.

We are living in a metaphysical sleep. People are sleep-walkers, somnambulists. They are born, they love, they hate, they make war, they kill each other, they commit suicide, they go mad, they die, but all in dream. It is very rare for ordinary people to have a few moments of awakening in their whole lives. Gurdjieff used to say that even if for seven single seconds man can be alert in his whole life, that is a miracle. But this is what we think life is. This is not life. The real life begins only when you start becoming more and more aware, alert, watchful.

This word "watch" contains all that is essential in all the religions. Jesus uses it again and again: "Watch." Buddha uses it again and again: "Be mindful. Gurdjieff, again and again: "Remember." Sufis call it jikr -- don't forget!

When this effort succeeds, that state is called "sambuddha". One has come home, one is awakened.

Start it!

Answer 9

For all those who identify with the false ego the world is indeed Maya. The only way to experience this beautiful world, as it is, is to drop the ego and wakening happens on its own accord. Find a master!

Answer 10

I see it like an illusion sometimes