The awareness of a single thought, the awareness of mind, are very important. In the beginning, you may not know what is what; everything feels unclear, but when awareness is present for a while, it forms a moment of sudden clarity—an instant insight.
Yet at the beginning, you will definitely feel confused: “What am I supposed to do? What does this mean?” You will have many doubts. No matter what, just keep watching, keep noticing, keep observing. One day there comes the point when you will naturally understand.
And this kind of understanding is what gives you the power to be free. No one can teach it to you. You must see it for yourself—pay attention, observe. Only then does true safety arise. Most people don’t care about this; they don’t understand it and hope to quickly get what they want or what solves their problems. Because of that, they constantly miss this insight. This is the essential point.
And so they continue to cycle through suffering. This cycle doesn’t need to wait until the afterlife. We repeat the same painful cycle over and over in this life. There is already a sense of safety within you, but your mindset keeps you from experiencing it. It is like searching for something inside a dream. You want safety, but no matter how hard you search, you can’t find it.
Why? Because in the dream, you don’t know you are dreaming. Only when you wake up do you realize it was all a dream. You were scared in the dream, not because you truly lacked safety. Now—even though your eyes are open—do you know that you may still be dreaming? When you sleep, you know you are dreaming only after you wake. But in this waking state, you don’t yet realize that what you’re experiencing is also a dream.
The moment you “wake up;” the moment you truly understand everything we’ve been talking about, just one insight—one shift—and you immediately awaken. And at that moment, you no longer need safety. That awakening is safety. And this safety cannot be taken from you, destroyed, or broken by anything. That is real safety.
When your mind is clear and aware, everything you experience becomes like a dream. I rarely dream, but on the occasions when I do, I know that I’m dreaming, and I can see the dream playing out. If you know you’re dreaming, what happens? You naturally have distance from your troubles. You don’t get trapped in them. You don’t suffer because of them. This is very important.
The difference between knowing you’re dreaming and not knowing is profound. If you don’t know, you believe your thoughts are facts. You identify with your suffering as something real, something that must be resisted or eliminated. Because you believe it is real, you fight it. But when you know you’re dreaming, you no longer identify with it. You see that it is illusory.
If it doesn’t truly exist, why fight it? This is the difference. Believing your thoughts are real keeps you inside the dream. Seeing them as illusions frees you from the dream. They are merely creations of the mind. When you stop identifying with them, their power naturally fades.
If you keep believing—for example, “I feel guilty, so I must seek forgiveness”—that energy grows stronger. It won’t disappear; it will shift into different forms, but behind every mask is still guilt. Your perspective and identification continuously create the next layers of suffering.
We think the pain is real, and so we think we must fight, eliminate, or solve it. This creates more suffering, but when you recognize it is merely an illusion—a fabrication of the mind—why fight it?
When you stop fighting, it naturally dissolves like clouds disappearing into the sky. This is effortless freedom. This is ease.
By Suzhen Liu
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