Thread by @inertiahere

When you’re ready to wake up, you’re going to wake up, and if you’re not ready, you’re going to stay pretending that you’re just a poor little me. And since you’re all here and engaged in this sort of inquiry and listening to this sort of lecture, I assume that you're all on the

process of waking up. Or else, you’re teasing yourselves, with some kind of flirtation with waking up; which you’re not serious about. But i assume here maybe you are not serious, but sincere, that you are ready to wake up.

So then when you are in the way of waking up and finding out who you really are, what you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call here and now.

You are something the whole universe is doing, in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet, which life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

So then when you die, you’re not going to have to put up with everlasting non-existence because that's not an experience. A lot of people are afraid that when they die they're going to be locked up in a dark room forever, and sort of undergo that.

But one of the most interesting things in the world, this is the yoaga - this is a way of realization, try and imagine what it would be like to go to sleep and never wake up. Think about that – children think about it.

Its one of the great wonders of life, what will it be like to go to sleep and never wake up. And if you think long enough about that, something will happen. You will find out, among other things, that it will pose the next question to you -

– what was it like to wake up after never having gone to sleep?

That was when you were born.

You see, you can’t have an experience of nothing – nature abhors a vacuum. So after you’re dead the only thing that can happen is the same experience, or the same sort of experience, as when you were born.

In other words we all know very well that after people die, other people are born - and they’re all you. Only you could only experience it one at a time.

Everybody is I, you all know you’re you, and wheresoever beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn’t make any difference – you are all of them. And when they come into being, that's you coming into being, you know that very well.

Only you don’t have to remember the past, in the same way you dont have to think about how you work your thyroid gland or whatever else it is in your organism.

You don’t have to know how to shine the sun, you just do it, like you breathe.

Doesn’t it really astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing, and that you’re doing all this and never had any education in how to do it?

The Real You - Alan Watts