Is Chögyal Namkhai Norbu correct when he says our life is unreal and that Buddha taught that life is just like a dream?
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In this video clip you can see renowned Tibetan master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu saying that life is unreal and that the Buddha taught it is just like a dream. Is he correct? I've transcribed below:
> Sometimes we have very nice dream. Fantastic dream... And we enjoy. We
> are very happy. We are dreaming, for example... ...I'm looking and
> someone is selling... lottery ticket. Very, very big lottery. I am
> taking and buying from someone and I am returning home. And I am
> seeing the television. And when I am looking at my number... The
> television is saying that number! Then I feel very happy. "Oh, what do
> I do now?" All this money. I am really happy and then I wake up. When
> I wake up, I discovered that is a dream, unfortunately. I am not
> happy. Or sometimes... very, very bad dream. There are many people
> that want to kill me. They are arriving in my house. Then they are
> starting to kill me. I feel very afraid. That moment I wake up. And I
> discover, "Oh, that is only a dream!" I am very happy. **You see, good
> or bad. Even good or bad. A dream is a dream. Unreal. So Buddha is
> saying, our life is just like a dream. Big dream.** Dream of night is a
> very small dream, but... Our life's dream, it has many day and night,
> day and night etcetera. When we discover that... Dreams, we discover
> when we wake up. But big dreams, we discover... When we are dying and
> being in a state of Bardo (transitional state).
Emphasis mine.
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