16 Oct You can see humans suffering over something that is not important, that is not even real (DON MIGUEL RUIZ)
You can see humans suffering over something that is not
important, that is not even real
From the Toltec perspective, everything we believe about ourselves, and everything we know about
our world, is a dream. If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society,
the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a place of war and violence, a place
of judgment and no justice, a place of punishment that never ends. There are humans versus
humans in a jungle of predators; humans full of judgment, full of blame, full of guilt, full of emotional
poison – envy, anger, hate, sadness, suffering. We create all these little demons in our mind because
we have learned to dream hell in our own life.
Each of us creates a personal dream for our own self, but the humans before us created a big
outside dream, the dream of human society. The outside Dream, or the Dream of the Planet, is the
collective Dream of billions of dreamers. The big Dream includes all the rules of society, its laws, its
religions, its different cultures, and ways to be. All of this information stored inside our mind is like a
thousand voices talking to us at once. The Toltecs call this the mitote.
The real us is pure love; we are Life. The real us has nothing to do with the Dream, but the mitote
keeps us from seeing what we really are. When you see the Dream from this perspective, and if you
have the awareness of what you are, you see the nonsense behavior of humans, and it becomes
amusing. What for everyone else is a big drama, for you becomes a comedy. You can see humans
suffering over something that is not important, that is not even real. But we have no choice. We are
born in this society, we grow up in this society, and we learn to be like everyone else, playing
nonsense all the time, competing with mere nonsense.
Imagine that you could visit a planet where everyone has a different kind of emotional mind. The way
they relate to each other is always in happiness, always in love, always in peace. Now imagine that
one day you awake on this planet, and you no longer have wounds in your emotional body. You are
no longer afraid to be who you are. Whatever someone says about you, whatever they do, you don’t
take it personally, and it doesn’t hurt anymore. You no longer need to protect yourself. You are not
afraid to love, to share, to open your heart. But no one else is like you. How can you relate with
people who are emotionally wounded and sick with fear?
The Mastery of Love
DON MIGUEL RUIZ
