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The dream self is the movement of mental and emotional energy in avoidance of death. Awareness identifies with thought and emotion in some attempt to create and maintain a self out of past and future. This self seeks permanency. But there is no permanency in time. Time is finite. Time is mind. It is thought. Thought, by its very nature, arises and falls.

Enlightenment is the falling away of the story of “me” living in past and future. In that falling away, what is left is timelessness—the infinite, the eternal. In that falling away, liberation and unconditional love arise. Jesus said, “If you want to find your life, you must lose it.” He was not referring to physical death or encouraging martyrdom. He was pointing to the fact that this dream self (which he called sin) is an obstacle to enlightenment or Oneness (which he called God).

When the dream self is seen to be nothing but an illusion, physical death is no longer feared. The fear of death arises only because the dream self believes it is a real entity totally separate from the rest of life—an entity that can die. But your real identity is beyond the cycle of physical birth and death. When the fear of death dies, the fear of living goes with it. That is non-dual freedom.



Kiloby, Scott. Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment