Buddha on the Waking Dream

For weeks I had been experiencing vivid, luminous dreams unlike anything before. In them, I saw the light, the truth. I witnessed my karmic soul releasing, my soul mate saying goodbye, and my twin soul awakening alongside me. The dreams were so real that I began to understand clearly: waking life is the dream. In due time, I knew, I would awaken to my full being, to the nameless “it” at the creation of the universe and at the center of the void. I asked Buddha: what is the purpose of the waking dream when the veil has grown so thin?

This is what he shared.

—Vanessa Love

Buddha:

What your soul is experiencing is the rapid acceleration of your growth journey. Your soul remembers wholeness, and the ego ceases to overpower that remembrance of who you truly are.

In your sleep, you are entering, or returning to, the place you came from. Yet this place is not a place at all. Because of the human mind’s limited understanding of its environment, it perceives the spirit world as somewhere else. There is no elsewhere for spirit. Every living being is spirit, and every living being belongs to the spirit world already.

The real dream, as you are recognizing, is the physical world your body inhabits. And yet it is more than a dream. It is where you can encounter the truth of your divine essence. By returning to it again and again, you gain precious insight into yourself as a creator being. You imagined this world through your spirit’s will, and this place became as it is. You find comfort here because you chose this life, including every soul you would meet. This journey is not yours alone. It is the shared destiny of many souls traveling alongside you.

As you awaken to your infinite nature as the “it” before creation, your reality ripples into the dreams of others, stirring them, too, toward their own divinity. You are not a soul bound to this plane by karma to be paid. This soul journey is one of growth and awakening. The human life you are living is what you once dreamed of when you were in spirit form. See it in the light of what you are gaining by walking through it.

All that is, is within you. You find the truth by going inward, into a place that requires the shedding of every fear, every doubt, every pain. The world’s nature is a perpetual illusion that entangles you each day. Yet what you experience in your luminous dreaming is not separate from truth. It is the truth of eternal life. In this state of dreaming awakening, you have touched another tapestry of existence, a dimension few will encounter in their lifetimes. It is an honor to see things as they are, to pierce through what your physical eyes present, and into the light.

No one can wake you up. It is the desire of your own soul to have this specific experience. There is immense learning in living between both worlds, the one you move through in your waking hours and the one you touch deeply in sleep. The greater reality is this: you are ready. Your soul carries the signature of maturity required to hold these truths. It is your love for those around you that keeps you tenderly tethered to the earthly plane.

As for what comes next, the growth ahead will arise from helping other souls along the same path. You will receive what they learn, and this is among the most beautiful forms of transformation any soul can experience in a single lifetime. Be curious about both worlds. The veil has no hold on you. You can walk in true freedom in your waking hours. The circumstances of your life are yours to shape. You have the power within to play, to experiment, to discover the deepest joy available to you.

It is in your stillness, whether waking or dreaming, that awakening is catalyzed. Have faith that what you are creating serves all souls. One day, when you truly awaken on this side, the spirit side, you will see the purpose as clearly as daylight.

This is my message for you today.

Vanessa’s Note: Indra’s Net

After receiving this transmission, I was guided to a teaching I had never encountered before: Indra’s Net, from the Avatamsaka Sutra (the Flower Garland Sutra), one of the foundational texts of Mahayana Buddhism.

The teaching describes an infinite net stretching in all directions across the heavens. At every node where the threads cross hangs a single perfect jewel. Each jewel contains the reflection of every other jewel in the net, and each of those reflected jewels reflects every other in turn, infinitely, without end.

The metaphor illustrates the interpenetration of all phenomena: everything contains everything else, and at the same time, each individual thing remains itself, not confused with or diminished by the others.

Every action ripples outward like reflections in Indra’s Net. Nothing is trivial, and nothing is isolated. A small act of kindness is not small. It enters the net.

When Buddha said to me, “as you awaken, your reality ripples into other people’s dreams and causes them to also wake up to their divinity,” he was describing exactly this. Your awakening is not only yours. You are a jewel in the net. And your light touches every other jewel, each of which touches every other, on and on, without end.

This is why awakening is never a solitary act. It is, at its heart, a gift to all of existence.