There are three basic views of life.

1. Life is a burden.
2. Life is a dream.
3. Life is a supreme gift.

The first is, if you scratch the surface, what most people think and feel. And it turns out to be incorrect.

The second is a thorn to remove the erroneous first view. To view life as a dream “unhooks” the stakes implied by the alleged burden character of existence. One is happily standing as the witness while dream images play themselves out.

Keep going! The last–beyond the dream metaphor–is what is deeply and directly experienceable. It’s inherent bountifulness, inherent love, inherent sweetness.