What's the game about?

This life is a game. What's the game about?

The essence of the game is about believing everything to be real....especially the action figure moving across the board. Everything is seen from his particular point of view. For example, from this particular perspective, lettuce is good and slugs are bad. This is one of an infinite number of examples of good and bad. The world is rarely seen from the perspective of the whole.

The game is about believing that you have your own independent existence with a future, past, and present. The action figure believes that he has his own independent conscious mind. The action figure really imagines that he is making decisions. In other words, he believes that he has autonomy and some control. Decisions have consequences so it better choose correctly!!

At the beginning of the game, the goal is survival. Once these needs have been met the action figure will seek happiness until the body expires. The actual expiry date is a mystery. The action figure will be encouraged to get a career, purchase a house, and raise a family as some kind of recipe for finding peace and happiness.

The game is incredibly detailed and refined. It has zip codes and driver's license numbers. It comes complete with (seemingly) inescapable family dramas. Misery is all but guaranteed for the action figure and there will always be a sense of doom lurking somewhere in the background knowing that it's complete annihilation is inevitable. Even the sun is destined to explode!

Why would anyone choose to play such a game? We need to see that we play this game because we love it. We love playing the game of ignorance. In other words, God/Reality loves it.

For some reason my action figure got interested in awakening. I now understand that it was always God/Reality seeking itself. I am going to stop imagining that Scott had anything to do with it. Scott doesn't exist. He is a thought that is believed to be true (along with a series of bodily sensations). Scott is an illusion. He does not have his own independent mind and, therefore, does not have free will.

I'm not a crusader for the truth and the world does not need to be fixed!! Reality is always free to choose ignorance.

Further, I don't want to be the guy ruining a movie by constantly reminding the person beside me that, 'it's just a movie.' That is annoying. As Bono said, "Am I bugging you? I didn't mean to bug ya...Ok Edge, play the blues!"

In fact, the point of the game is to believe we are something we are not. (That's how dreams work.) Ignorance is never a problem. It's always God's choice and believing to be a person is a wild, wild trip (is it not?). Believing myself to be Scott is just one of an infinite number of possibilities within Consciousness. Lasting peace comes from this understanding of reality. Pure knowing is capable of experiences that are beyond the limits of our imagination.

That said, the imagined game of life is intense. It's life and death. Kill or be killed. It's a zero sum game. Other action figures must lose so that I can win (at least this is what the action figure usually believes). For some, death is preferred over a life of poverty or believing to be a failure.

Perhaps this game is a little too intense for some of us, (myself included). For some people, ending the game prematurely is the only way that they can find the peace that they seek. This makes complete sense to me since happiness is simply the removal of fear and suffering.

It is important to understand that phycological suffering is always optional. We always have the option of waking up from this dream (before the body expires). If we care enough to investigate, and are prepared to trust our intelligence, we all have the ability to wake up.

I am certain that I would never have been liberated from my anxiety if I had not discovered the truth...so I'm always grateful and happy to share with anyone interested. I needed to deeply understand that there is no flesh*. This understanding is the kind of liberation that is beyond the reach of therapy or self improvement. This blog is not about improving the self.

In other words, Consciousness was here first, which is what I believe some really smart physicists have been saying for about a hundred years! Obviously paradigm shifts take time. This is just a personal observation, but it feels like society is moving further away from truth. Despite our technical prowess, the lack of wisdom in our society is incredible.

I can't say exactly what I imagined awakening to be but this* was definitely not what I was expecting. It was a surprise.

The truth isn't for everyone, and everything is always perfect the way it is. As I said, I'm not a crusader. I'm just a bird on a branch singing a song if anyone wishes to wake up.

Awakening is about understanding reality. In other words, what's real and what's not real. It is understanding that the reality of everything is Consciousness. There is only Consciousness. It is impossible to experience anything other than Consciousness.

Discovering our true identity is the only purpose in life. I don't have to worry about jumping into reality since I'm already swimming in it. As always, understanding is everything. With love, S.