Ever thought about all the roles required to write a good drama?
Dramas always have victims. I’ll call this role of victim Poor Penelope.
Poor Penelope has to be victimized by some villian, otherwise Poor Penelope wouldn’t be Poor Penelope. So I’ll call the role of villain Snidley Wiplash.
And like all good dramas, I must write in a hero, to save Poor Penelope from Snidley. I’ll call this hero, Dudley DoRight.
Victim, villain and hero are all roles that can only come into existence with each other. None are stand on their own roles.
Now, how many of us imagine ourselves to be victims?
How many of us imagine we’d like to be heros?
NOW you know, The Play of Consciousness and how reality comes into being.
It’s a co-operative Play.
The Greatest Show on Earth!
One rubberband may appear to have two ends that oppose each other, however, they are parts of the same rubber band.
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August 18th, 2007 - 5:32 pm
I think that what you have said here stands Sue, but I have a question which I haven’t been able to identify up until now, in regard to this line of thought:
are you saying at the core of it, that everyone essentially exists, and that is all that they do, or do you mean to say that by identifying ourselves as a member of the play, we actually exit from our own ability to truly experience reality fully?
I ask this, with a vague notion of role, in mind. Surely in life, if we as enlightened people do not intend to place ourselves in some specific role, we will not just exist; there will still be a something which we are supposed to do, and though it could be said that this something is a role that we’re filling, if it comes naturally, in the flow of things, it can’t be considered wrong to naturally do what we are supposed to do.
This is a complex and complicated idea; it is part of a complex notion, that of role, of ‘are’, in terms of ‘what are I?’. What we are is a definition of what we do. The question is, the doing makes us what?
We can’t escape the state of being something. I think for some reason I may be misunderstanding your meaning in speaking about this, or I may have a different notion on this, but I think that ultimately it is not true that a fully enlightened person “doesn’t have an are”. If anything, their are is fully realized, and they are what they are.
It is interesting to see, if we explore into past history, of what individuals have done when they attained full enlightenment, that pretty much every time, their way of life changes drastically upon reaching full enlightenment.
This is a side note, but you will know what I mean. If a person’s ‘are’ is to be heroic in some way, it can’t be considered wrong, only because of the nature of the path.
A person can be heroic, without considering those who they help to be victims. The play evaporates, and everyone involved ‘are’ filling their roles, though in all clarity, it is not a play at all.
I hope this has made sense, I felt that this was the place to go into this line of thought; I’m probably missing some element of what you mean in this parable, but I might not be, I don’t know for sure.
Peace,
Joe
August 18th, 2007 - 6:24 pm
“What we are is a definition of what we do.”
rofl
WHO told you that?
Someone who wanted to exalt themselves over others beause of some dexterity of skill? Some faculty of mental or physical dexterity?
Reality is a state of Being.
What are I being today?
Being Understanding?
Being Compassionate?
Being Tolerant?
Being Accepting?
A state of being verb is different then an action verb. They’re suppose to teach us that in grade school.
Every state of being verb relates to different tenses of “I Am”. Be. Been. Is. Was. Has been.
Here I go, a am-ing a way.
To be or not to be isn’t the question. If any can say or write “I am”, then we be. We exist. The only way to argue with that one, would be to shut our mouths, expound no therories and die.
We exist. We live. We are Life, expressing itself. Through our Be-ing.
Reality is a Play of Consciousness.
There are no ‘ends’ to a rubber band.
Oil and water do mix. They mix just as we imagine they do.
August 19th, 2007 - 7:20 am
What I imagine from this description is the tug of war game that is played with a rope and a flag in the middle. Whatever side that can get the flag over the line in the middle wins, but before the game even starts everything seems to be in balance. It is the side with the more stronger people on it that usually wins. It is a form of co-operative play like you describe with two sides, but it is a line, and I wonder what would happen if the line was joined to form a circle, it would not be the same game I think.
August 19th, 2007 - 7:35 am
maybe we are all just part of a broken rubber band sometimes?
August 19th, 2007 - 8:45 am
{{tumel}} You’ve got the idea! ‘Cept the rubberband is not broken. We just don;t realize we’re all part of the same rubber band.
Take any polarity issue and, try to see it as a rubber band. Like rich/poor.
This year, the polarities are growing more accented. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Once the rubber band reaches full extension, it snaps and both ends rush to meet each other. In the collision, the energy, the stress and the strain of seperation is released.
Or the topic of abuse. There is much in the way of emotionally abusive patterns that is not being admitted. Many of us women have cried about being abused but have not recgnized exactly how abusive our emotionally self indulgent behaviour is and has been upon others.
August 19th, 2007 - 10:12 am
I’m just going to thrown in here, that many of us do not understand ‘Power’. We do not know what it is. We do not know how it works. And what we do know and call ‘power’, is actually an indication, an expression of, living in denial of our real Power.
Many of us set upon the path in search of power. It is quite natural for us to do so. We feel power-less, so we go to find some. As we set forth, we imagine this power along the lines of something superhuman, a ‘hero’.
All the while clueless and made gullible by, our ignorance that ‘immortal’ is a lot different then ‘eternal’. And ‘in control’ is a lot different then ‘at Peace with’.
The difference being the same as between a silk purse and a sow’s ear. That difference being substance. The inner substance of character, of qualities easily accessible that can be expressed at any moment’s notice, being vastly different. One inner substance is focused in fear, at gut level. The other inner substance is focused in Love, at Heart level. One is an action, the other a response.
In the househood I was raised in, it was called ‘character’. My daughter tells me I am old fashioned, for I still speak of it and, as she says, nobody else does.
Honor is not determined by our goals.
Honor is determined by the means we use to pursue those goals.
Don’t tell me the value is Love for Life, when any means of negating lives, is being used in pursuit of that goal. I’m not in the market for used oats today.
August 19th, 2007 - 2:08 pm
I’m thoroughly confused when thinking about these ideas, I must admit. I can’t see what the rubber band represents.
I understand about letting dualities go, and I recognize that one day we will be free of dualities, as a people, but I think that my scope/scale of thought is different in regarding these ideas, and so I can’t wrap my mind around the totality of it. Something is missing.
I know how to love my fellow humanity, and I do not in any way attempt to make something more of myself than I am. But everyone’s path is unique, and asking myself “am I being tolerant/compassionate/accepting enough?” doesn’t cut the mustard. There has to be something more to it, for me to understand what you are saying here Sue. I am all of those things, but shoes are shoes, and we all wear them, and I can’t seem to be able to figure out how to put mine on.
Speaking about heros, victims, and villains: someone once told me that if we do not embrace conflict, in the sense that we will face it head on and address it with love, then ultimately we will not grow as people. Being loving/caring/accepting is a form of embracing conflict, but so is getting ready for it so that you can protect those who need it.
It’s easy to say that life will be all roses, but it can only be roses if you keep a watch on the weeds, sometimes, and protect those roses.. am I wrong to believe this? If we just sit back and tell everyone that everything will be fine, but we can see something in the future which they will need to be careful of, telling them everything will be roses will only end them up stuck on a thorn.
These are the shoes that I myself am in, but I’m not sure that it’s possible to go down that road without at least some people giving me encouragement. You spoke about this dudley/penelope/snidley thing to me in the blog I was running before, and honestly it feels like a snub to me to see it again, when all I want to do is help people to see what I’ve seen in the past, about the future.
It’s not all going to be roses, and I don’t want people to end up stuck on thorns. If I don’t fill the shoes, I will not be doing my job. You’ve helped me with things in the past, but right now I sort of feel like I’m alone again, trying to address this. We’re all just trying to make it, when it comes down to it.
Anyway, this is where I’m coming from, and I’ve said this from the heart. I’ve enjoyed our email correspondence, and I know you’ve seen the purity of spirit with which we have conversed. I do not believe that this comment or my last email is outside of that purity of spirit. I may be misreading this, but I’m being true to my true Spirit, not the little me, in speaking to you about this here.
That’s pretty much all that I have to say on this, Peace, I hope to speak with you later.
August 19th, 2007 - 3:18 pm
I can feel the genuine intensity of your heart’s passion. Without a doubt.
Here’s an exercise. It may help. Go get a rubber band. Grasp two ends, one is each hand. Put one hand right in front of your belly and, the other, right in front of that one.
Now re-read your comment above and for every experience in life you have qualified as negative, move one hand forward. For every mention of conflicting with conflict. For every judgement upon life that you have made.
Now when that rubber band snaps, it’s you who have made all those negative qualifications on it, that it’s going to bounce back and hurt.
You see love as only embracing ‘positive’. You do not know how to embrace ‘negative’. You do not know how to Love it and release that life energy from the charge in which you have imprisoned it.
It’s the same pattern of thought we have all been taught. It’s the pattern of love upon condition. Where LOve is extended only upon the condition that it’s something pleasant. Love only ‘good’, not ‘bad’.
This is the internal conflict.
For every sinlge one of us is the sum total of all the experiences in life we have had. Seen. Heard of. And so long as there are experiences in life we have qualified as ‘bad’, that we resent, that we haven’t been able to forgive others for, indicates in how many ways we have yet to accept ourselves. How much we resent ourselves and how much we haven’t forgiven ourselves for.
Every single one of these aspects of ourselves we haven’t embraced, these ‘demons’ of ours, we always project upon the world. And the world always shows up delivering them in our faces, until such time as we claim our own demons.
Being able to extend Compassion and seek understanding to only the ‘good’ is a limitation in inner substance and quality of character. It expresses polarity, not Unity awareness.
A rose is a rose, thorns and all. What you seek but don’t realize you are seeking, is to save peole from the very things that build a spiritual body of momentum.
‘Virtue” means strength. Inner strength.
Emotional versatilty. Emotional flexibility. Emotional resilence.
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coping skills
And it isn’t much of a stretch to Tolerate the tolerable, nor Accept the acceptable, nor understand the understood. Big deal.
Now embrace the dark side.
Take down that conditional gate across your heart and let Love and Light flow through all realms, not just the ones you happen to like.
If we want to heal our wounds, we have to love them, no matter how we got them or from whom.
August 19th, 2007 - 4:35 pm
I understand. I’ve been told “you have to love yourself before you can love others” many times in my life, only now have I completely understood how this works in the world.
I’m very much already on the way to being able to do so, but you’ve put the pieces of the key together in my mind/heart, and now I just need to let the key serve its purpose.
I’m glad that you’re just as stubborn as I am Sue, sometimes I’m the anvil, sometimes I’m the hammer, and vice versa, but every time each one of us is “hard-headed” enough to do the shaping
A lot of people would have thrown up their hands by now at someone as “set in their ways” as me, but you have a tenacious spirit.
The beauty part is that after awhile, the hard work becomes a joy, the difficulties in life become the most welcomed experiences, because we know that life will become more of a joy because of the experience.
If someone derides me, or kicks me, or calls me some bad thing, I can only thank them for being open with me about things. If there’s anything that truth brings out in people, it is honesty, and only honesty can change people.
So I guess the bad, if it is repressed, only ends up being held in, but if the bad is expressed, it can be transformed. So the bad and good are no different, even if one is preferred over the other.
My life is complicated on an inner level, in a way that I think few people probably have experienced. Lao Tzu spoke about “untangling the knot”, to find peace, I think that was a knot that’s been hankering to be untangled for some time now.
I don’t know what else to add, so I’ll just stop here. Thanks again Sue.
August 19th, 2007 - 5:11 pm
You are welcome to all I can share Joe. I can sense your genuine desire. And as you are so insightful in bringing things up and communicating them, I can also spot where you arein the forest, lost among trees.
Boy do I know what’s it’s like being in that forest. I know what’s it’s like yearning and sensing the answer is right on the ‘tip of your tongue’ and being unable to get a handle on it. And usually it’s us, that are in our own way.
There really isn’t that much any of us need to learn. As much as UN-learn.
I’ll tell you a story about an old bull and a young bull. The two are on a hill and down in the valley below is a herd of cows.
The young bulls says: Let’s run down the hill and make love to a couple of cows.
The old bull replies: Let’s walk down the hill and make love to them all.
The story is about momentum and saving it for when it can be the most effective.
Grinning.
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