The Drama of the Lie (con’t.): Yesterday, visitors were invited to consider why they might not want to enter into the drama and take it seriously. Watching a play can be amusing, but watching the same play day after day can interrupt the natural flow of the energy. Identifying with the characters and actions in the play can be traumatizing and can result in emotional intoxication. Assuming a role in the play can be even more trying. Attempts to direct, control, and finance the play can be downright draining. Being lost in the play can prevent persons from meeting responsibilities in the relative existence. Paying the price of admission for those to whom a person is attached can be debilitating. It often requires a fulltime job, or a second job, or even a third job in order to be “The Provider” (which automatically becomes “the Super Provider” as soon as that ego-state is assumed to be real). Does that mean that no one can really enjoy a play, ever? Any play can be enjoyed when witnessed from a position of neutrality. Knowing that “it’s just a play” will prohibit loss of energy, traumatization, emotional intoxication, being trapped in efforts to control and manipulate, and being caught up in the drama and in the role-playing (which always—in the relative—exacts a heavy toll mentally, emotionally, financially, and physically on persons caught up in the “Drama of the Lie.” Often, some become so caught up in the drama that when their roles are threatened, they strike out and kill any person they take to be a threat to their false identities).
What drives persons to take illusions and appearances to be real? Enculturation, programming and conditioning which are used to pass on the learned ignorance that sets persons up to assume that lies are truth and that play-acting is real. In the cultures that assume the most roles and in which the majority are playing out their roles as if they are real, the elders in the “Drama” model the lie to the young. The young play the roles and participate in the Drama of the Lie into adulthood and thereby model for the next generation the same lies. The process leaves entire populations within such cultures in a state of believing that the play is real, that their bodies define who they are, and that the lines being spoken by persons who are immersed in the drama are truth when they are actually lies. To find the truth when among persons, seek the opposite of every thought or belief expressed until you reach the no-thought and no-belief and no-concept level of beingness.
Does any of the above suggest that one must abandon the play and never enjoy the feelings that can be felt during the play? Of course not. The Realize feel; they simply do not emote. Satisfied with less, the Realized do not try to buy the theater and the theatrical company and gain control of all aspects of the production. The Realized can witness, can enjoy the play, and can feel if they feel. But they are free of all the drawbacks that persons suffer if they take the false to be the real. They are freed of the efforts exerted by persons to use every instant either to "create" an image" or to "build" an image or to "reconstruct" an image that has been exposed as false. Persons absorbed in the play and their roles cannot relax and take it easy. While the reasons not to become lost in the drama and the roles are clear, persons will ignore the reasons and will continue to stay absorbed in their play, in their roles, and in their sleep. Few there are that want to be awakened. So it is. Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
UPCOMING: For now, that’s plenty for you and any other newcomers to process. For those who have been sending in questions during the time required to post the glossary entries, your inquiries have not been lost. Tomorrow, responses to all the questions will begin, including one on “Death,” one on “Memories,” and one asking “Why Advaita?”
What drives persons to take illusions and appearances to be real? Enculturation, programming and conditioning which are used to pass on the learned ignorance that sets persons up to assume that lies are truth and that play-acting is real. In the cultures that assume the most roles and in which the majority are playing out their roles as if they are real, the elders in the “Drama” model the lie to the young. The young play the roles and participate in the Drama of the Lie into adulthood and thereby model for the next generation the same lies. The process leaves entire populations within such cultures in a state of believing that the play is real, that their bodies define who they are, and that the lines being spoken by persons who are immersed in the drama are truth when they are actually lies. To find the truth when among persons, seek the opposite of every thought or belief expressed until you reach the no-thought and no-belief and no-concept level of beingness.
Does any of the above suggest that one must abandon the play and never enjoy the feelings that can be felt during the play? Of course not. The Realize feel; they simply do not emote. Satisfied with less, the Realized do not try to buy the theater and the theatrical company and gain control of all aspects of the production. The Realized can witness, can enjoy the play, and can feel if they feel. But they are free of all the drawbacks that persons suffer if they take the false to be the real. They are freed of the efforts exerted by persons to use every instant either to "create" an image" or to "build" an image or to "reconstruct" an image that has been exposed as false. Persons absorbed in the play and their roles cannot relax and take it easy. While the reasons not to become lost in the drama and the roles are clear, persons will ignore the reasons and will continue to stay absorbed in their play, in their roles, and in their sleep. Few there are that want to be awakened. So it is. Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
UPCOMING: For now, that’s plenty for you and any other newcomers to process. For those who have been sending in questions during the time required to post the glossary entries, your inquiries have not been lost. Tomorrow, responses to all the questions will begin, including one on “Death,” one on “Memories,” and one asking “Why Advaita?”
