The teaching that the world and the universe are an illusion is thousands of years old, but the Course refines that teaching into the idea that this world is a dream that you will awaken from, and it’s that awakening that is enlightenment. This is what Buddha meant when he said, “I am awake.” Today, most spiritual students think that when Buddha said, “I am awake,” he meant he felt amazingly alert and ready to manifest like hell. Indeed, that’s what passes for enlightenment in most of the spirituality of today.
But Buddha didn’t mean he was more awake IN the dream, he meant he had awakened FROM the dream. And that’s not just a minor distinction. It’s everything. Buddha realized that he was not the dream, but the dreamer. He was not actually in the dream at all. The dream was coming from him, and he was not an effect of it, but the cause of it. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other
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