dreams on dreams on dreams
If I am where my attention is, then I should really be involved with (or aware of or conscious of, etc; whichever phrasing works for you) everything that I do.
One thing that hampers this is my tendency to day dream. If we use the metaphor of life itself to be a dream, then this is just dreaming within the dream; it makes the situation more wispy and blurred.
When someone things a lot or day dreams, we say that “their head is in the cloud.” I think that this is the wrong metaphor directionally. In fact, it is those who have their feet on the ground who are “higher” energetically and consciously. A Course in Miracles and Conversations With God - Walsch are very clear on the point that our mind is our power; reality is whatever we think it is. A Course in Miracles is also very emphatic that we let our mind wander too much, thus giving reality to that which is not real. A practice to getting the mind in control is to, whenever you become aware of it, stop day dream. Cut off the thread.
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[Another place I’m taking this is in the realm of action. When we’re taking any action (singing, reading, doing work, etc.), we’re not actually engaging with the feeling of doing the work (cf hearing is the organ of wisdom). We’re only engaging with the picture in our mind which is an idealized abstraction of reality. Either we’re building that image off of an imaged future or extrapolating from our past. To truly engage with the act itself, we have to let go of this mentation. We have to put all this extra energy wasting mechanism down. In the moment of interacting with reality, we necessarily have to let go of causation (i.e., this is because of x past thing and will cause y future thing). It has to stand on its own (cf If there is no causation…). So, don’t even day dream when taking action. Go back as much as you can to ground reality.]
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[For context, this note was inspired by my realization today (September 15th, 2026) that I am on the verge of something, some breakthrough in the art of life in multiple areas (e.g., music, learning, reading, etc.) but am blocked somewhere. I can very clearly feel that I am at a doorway that I just have to pass through; I’m on the verge of some realization that, once beheld, will change everything. I don’t know if this is a series of realizations, one for each area I’m exploring, or one big one, but it’s there. I can feel the ocean beyond, tides rising.]
[In seeing this, I realized that if the realization is just out of my reach, that means that what I currently know and do is not sufficient to have it; if this were not the cause, I would have already had the realization. I intuited that I’m not spending enough time with the actual actions of what I’m doing and instead am working with abstractions. I mean, I’ve come to this realization multiple times over the last nine or so months that the time spend actually or truly doing something brings about an avalanche of realizations and revelations (cf how to get revelations). This is the true meaning of sangat.]
A few notes that I want to write related to this one: