Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eagle!data.nas.nasa.gov!news From: adobe!!news@decwrl.dec.com (Usenet News) Newsgroups: soc.religion.eastern Subject: Re: Awakening from the Dream of Experience Message-ID: <1991Jun13.223700.10984@nas.nasa.gov> Date: 13 Jun 91 22:37:00 GMT Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View Lines: 15 Approved: prabhu@amelia.nas.nasa.gov | If what I call my "waking" world is also a dream, does enlightenment | mean awakening from that world into yet another one? I don't think so. -Tom Simmonds Me neither. P.D. Ouspensky said about this kind of thinking: "You may be having a higher type of dream, but you are still sleeping in the same bed." | ...The idea of awakening itself can be the very thing that stands in | the way of enlightenment. My point exactly! -Alan