Perception is the 'Theatre Screen'. So, what are you watching?
“Grab an orange soda and Junior Mints, then head into the ‘Theatre’ where perception’s the screen of duality.
Once you’re seated, create your realities... and remember to include sublime plots and dramas so other Wills will want to play.”
Reach beneath your theatre seat to access the glossary. Here you will find the path to a clear view of the following metaphors: Theatre, Duality, Human, Movie, Productions
“Here, come with me...”
“We’re walking through the murmurs of people talking, excited about the feature to be unveiled for our experience. As we turn off our devices, our bodies squirm until snuggly ensconced in the waiting seat.
We sit, wanting to feel the adventure, yet know that ‘perception’ itself is the theatre screen of duality. ‘It’s just an act’ we say, but are nervous because it sometimes spills into the audience. Thinking ourselves clever, we sit away from the screen, so the occasional intrusions into the first few rows don’t spoil our ability to enjoy the movie.”
Here in our seat, perception is the theatre screen. In this image, the character ‘X’Tzu’ from ‘11:11 El Luchador Gauntlet’ is waiting for the theater doors to open.
The screen of duality is entertaining, as long as we know that’s what it is.
“I’m sitting next to you… curious how ‘humans’ are found only in the theatre.
Outside, there’s no human, only the intention of a human experience.
Inside, the actor being may be any character cast, or it may not express apparent complexity, instead showing its ‘human self’ as one of the elementals such as air, curtains, popcorn, fire, isle lights, candy, or earth.”
“We laugh and cry.
We go to the depths of despair and are catapulted to new heights.
Here, perception is the theatre screen.
Our fear and dread vibrate in intensity as disbelief plummets. Sometimes we’re not sure if each other are really there, squeezing each others hand for reassurance. Still, our deepness feels this silver screen experience as a cut within the movie-like productions we produce.”
If we’re experiencing, any-thing, with any sense, or having any sensation, then we are wearing the ‘hat of mind’ and the ‘glasses of perception’. In this place,‘Courage’ is sacrificing your suspension of disbelief to save the integrity of a movie, and the act of ‘selflessness’ knowing you’re also an observer in imaginations theater.
*see ‘Considerations’ below
“When we get uncomfortable enough, or during intermission, we ask ourselves, ‘What are we producing?’ Our soul opens and bursts into expansiveness, wondering and yearning to create movies so epic, full of emotion, pain, pleasure, tears, and laughter that others will want to sneak into a sequel.”
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if your ‘face’ is showing, nor if it’s remembered. For every face that’s hidden by time is also a mask of transient value. Our ‘hats, glasses, faces’ are mere eddies of light, windows into experiences where the Absolute-self parties in-ten-sely.
Considerations
The ‘small-self’ is also an observer. From this vantage (no right or wrong) we sometimes perceive that we have more choice than what our original agreement provided.
'we' can influence the perception and state of the segregated transient soul. However, knowing the glory AND limitations of choice also is emancipating. In that 'playground vantage’ of having one 'foot in the relative (where mutually arising dualistic perceptions arise) and one foot out (Absolute) we choose to influence or not, persuade or not, convince or not. Sometimes we just do for doings sake. All out of joy we express, with no requirement for reciprocation or acknowledgement.