Aotearoa. It roughly translates to “the land of the long white cloud,” a translation from which this video gets its name; it is the widely accepted Māori name for the entire country of New Zealand.
As anyone having visited New Zealand knows, the name makes sense, invoking an ethereal beauty of breathtaking expanse, and the country offers such beauty in spades.
Anyway, hiker Tim Eddy spent a week hiking this land, “from the glowing blue glaciers, through dense ancient forests and crystal clear turquoise rivers.” And what he came across was as beautiful as any land he might have envisioned in his dreams.
You see, for Tim, this life is even better than his dreams. He believes that life is what you make of it. If you want exhilarating, find exhilarating and put yourself there.
Basically, dream on, but don’t forget that any dream worth dreaming is a dream worth living.
And thus, “The Dream of Life” by Alan Watts, as heard in the video:
So then, if you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself – not as a stranger in the world, not as something that has arrived here by fluke
Let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream, and that you could for example have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time, or any length of time you wanted to have.
And you would, naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure during your sleep. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each you would say, “Well, that was pretty great.”
But now let’s have a surprise, let’s have a dream which isn’t under control, where something is gonna happen to me that I don’t know what it’s gonna be. Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further- and further-out gambles what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now.
