The tipping point is something like the moment, perhaps in the midst of a spellbinding movie, when your awareness shifts from the film on the screen to a greater, literally roomier awareness that you are viewing this film inside a theater. In reality this life we lead may be an enthralling, enchanting movie, but it is only a small part of what we are, and as ephemeral as a two hour film.
N.M. says "I am the light in which all dreams appear and disappear. I am both inside and outside the dream [of life]. Just as a man having headache knows the ache and also knows that he is not the ache, so do I know the dream, myself dreaming and myself not dreaming--all at the same time."
Enough to make my head ache, if I had a head. There is a computing organ crunching data endlessly inside its hardened shelter. I can watch the monitor or look away as I please.
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