Although they may choose to leap beyond, the lucid dreamer may willingly remain in the dream to assist other dreaming beings until all awaken, leaving none behind. appamatto pamattesu, suttesu bahujāgaro abalassaṃva sīghasso, hitvā yāti sumedhaso Dhammapada v.29https://twitter.com/_Buddha_Quotes/status/1242257952225947648 …
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Replying to @NoaidiX
Thank you. I think you are spot on on one of the main philosophical conundrums of Mahāyāna Buddhism: How can one have compassion towards figures in a dream? Should one? It risks to resemble a līlā more than an act of real compassion (NB: this is only an objection, the one 1/2
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Replying to @elisa_freschi @NoaidiX
I present to my students, I am not saying that there are no way outs).
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It seems our soteriological options will vary depending on the framing of the question, as well as whether one adopts an epistemic or ontological (or alternative) perspective on "idealism" and its implications for solipsism vs. intersubjectivity.
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Replying to @NoaidiX @elisa_freschi
1) Am I the sole dreamer, in which case others are mere figments of my dreams? 2) Is some other being the dreamer, in which case I am the mere figment of their dreams? 3) Do we all, as dreaming beings, intersubjectively co-construct dream worlds?
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There are countless additional variations beyond these few. I lean toward #3, in which case cultivating lucidity within the dream and extending compassion to all would seem to be at least one viable route to collective awakening.
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