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Originally posted by Shanti
Well, the shift that has happened is that now, I am the movie screen and the drama of life is passing over this screen.
Hi Shanti,
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What a perfect analogy .... thank you!!
This is the exact sense of what I've been trying to convey in the
Wayne Wirs: Newly Minted Enlightened Guy thread .... but without having this simple and elegant analogy .... I ended up being less clear ..... and using many, many, many, many more words.
This screen analogy, combined with your Harmony poem (which is awesome, by the way; poignant and powerful and beautiful; thank you for it, as well!!) provides two very, very powerful analogies concerning what the experiencing of true nature is actually like.
And so, I found myself "combining" them, in mind, and imaging a painting that's like a movie ... the canvas is both space (the area of the painting's canvas ... or screen) ... and time ... where the specific painting lasts only a moment, and dissolves into the arising of a new, equally beautiful, just different painting ... arising from the same palette, yet utterly unique, which dissolves again after a moment ....
Being the screen, I have nothing to do with specific display being displayed on "me" (awareness/consciousness ... the screen I AM) ... and I experience the complete work of art, every moment ... instead of mistakenly identifying with a tiny slice of the painting that felt like "me" (even though the painting/display is actually different, every moment, anyway ..... no wonder the "dream of me" is perpetually confused!!
)
It’s not that we’re not the paint or the colors (the display on the screen) … if the raw materials of the colors and display weren’t part of consciousness, there would be “screen only” … and no perceiving of anything at all.
It’s that we’re not the specific configuration of the paint or colors; there may be a few moments of intense red being the main color displayed, but I (the screen) experience the display/painting (the moment) more as a whole, rather than feeling attached to a specific, minor aspect (the minor aspect I used to think of as “me”) … but then the display blends into some soothing cool blues … and other vibrant hues … and not only are the “intense red” hues (or black, or brown, or gray or whatever … I’m “analogizing”, here, regarding intense emotions and such in the human experience … those emotions and experiences that the ego tries to avoid and/or minimize) not remembered or regretted or whatever …..
... they’re literally gone …. their configuration in the last moment actually dissolved, to arise as the display of the next moment, and the next, ever alive, ever new, now … just as the entire ocean never “waves” the exact same way, twice.Experiencing this, consciously being the screen, I (all of us, each of us) can experience that the only pertinent display, in any way,
is this one, this moment …
but it too is utterly gone in just a moment … the palette of colors is ever-freshly liberated to display as the specific blend of this moment, now … and now.
And there could never be a more beautiful piece of art than this moment, living unbound.
Being the screen, we can fully enjoy the living spontaneity of our own art/life expressing itself, unhindered by the dream of needing to "make" the painting/display be a certain way; unhindered by regretting the "bad" moment-displays; unhindered by the (incorrect) dream of an actual "me" who is/was part of that moment-display ... and somehow (dreaming I am that "me") ... causing this naturally-perfect work of art (this moment) to be less than complete, less than perfect.
One of the biggest challenges in this sharing the simple freedom and enjoyment of "En
ScreenEnment"
... is in simply and clearly communicating what it's like, and what the difference is, from other expansions of consciousness, along the yogic path.
.... and these two illustrations (the "I am the screen" analogy, and your wonderful Harmony poem) .... help to easily clarify what's going on, what's possible, and why the experience of living changes (upon experiencing self as the screen, and not as any part of the display, specifically) in the exact ways that it does, upon realizing we actually are the screen, all along .... more simply and clearly than any I've ever seen before.
Thank You.
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Wholeheartedly,
Kirtanman