Once one has awakened to the truth of what they really are, not a this being or a that being, not a this thing or a that thing, pain and pleasure, grief and joy are experienced, witnessed in bliss and peace, even though the body and mind they imagined themselves as seem racked with agony or ecstasy, suffering or addiction, for now with absolute awareness awake they are no longer the character or even observer of story, illusion, but rather the author, the creator, the dreamer, the supreme source of all stories, of all dreams, LOVE…