Yesterday = last night's dream
Tomorrow = tonight's dream
Today = a day-dream
Dream-like are sense-pleasures? says the Buddha, the
Awakened One.?Just as one would see in a dream
charming parks, charming forest glades, charming
landscapes and charming water-ponds, but on waking up,
sees not a
trace of them, even so dream-like are
sense-pleasures.? (Potaliya S. M. N .)
The Buddha has awakened from the Samsaric slumber with
its manifold dreams of sense-pleasures. The image of
the dream calls to our minds the illusory nature of
sense pleasures. Life after life we go to sleep in
this or that mother?s womb - in this or that plane of
existence. Our fleshly eye opens at birth - but not
the wisdom-eye. We dream at night and wake up by day.
But our day-dream continues throughout our lives. We
usually wake up on hearing an alarm. When death knocks
at our door we are alarmed. That is our last chance to
wake up. That is not the time to pack-up, but to
let-go. ?From all that is dear and agreeable, there is
a separation, a deprivation, a change to
otherwise-ness? (M.P.S-D.N.) ?All meetings end in
partings?.
In a dream one meets another
But wakes up to see him gone
So it is with the one held dear
When he is dead and gone
- Jara S, Sn. V.807
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