Awakening by Means of the Dream Can Only Be Dreaming that We Are Awake
Understanding can be approached from 'above' or from 'below', that is, via the I-subject direct or via the me-object, from the non-dual or via duality.
The approaches via the subject are based on the Diamond Sutra, Advaita, the Ch'an of the T'ang Masters, or the teaching of Padma Sambhava. All these are brief and concise, and were in general regarded as 'secret' doctrines because accessible only to the few who were capable of understanding at that level, also perhaps because they would necessarily appear meaningless and even absurd to the simple-minded. All the other approaches of which I have cognisance are via the object. How could they possibly succeed? What could they achieve beyond a conditioning of the psyche?
To seek to dispose of an illusory object by means of itself is surely a sheer impossibility.
Note:'I' alone am the subject. 'That which does' is an object. 'I' is ultimately pure unconditioned Subject, non-dual; subject conditioned by object is dual. (The term 'unconditioned subject', as such, is self-contradictory, but it is used to imply subject and object united in a unicity that cannot be given any possible name.)
