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Shanti
USA
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 Posted - Nov 21 2009 : 09:28:15 AM
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For years I have heard about the "us being a screen and life projecting it's movie on us" analogy. I have used it many times. It is so perfect. Really, watch the screen, it is not touched by what is going on in the movie. This screen is the silence on which the colors of life project and make the movie.
Well, over a bit more than a month there has been a shift. I did not have words to explain what this shift felt like, but it came to me this morning.
So far when I give the movie screen analogy, I am looking at a movie screen and how the movie with all its drama is passing over it without touching it. Well, the shift that has happened is that now, I am the movie screen and the drama of life is passing over this screen.
Read the next few lines from the perspective of "I am a screen" and not "what the screen out there is experiencing". Like when in school, they made us write autobiography of inanimate objects, like a book... you become the book and say what the book is experiencing... like that read the rest of the lines in this post as tho it is the screen talking and not me talking for the screen.
When I say I am the screen, I am not talking about this body mind, I am talking about something that cannot be expressed in words, not a witness, not something separate from me... more like a solid (and yet made of air, completely transparent and hollow) wall of silence (the canvas of silence) on which things are happening.
The body mind reacts to things going on around me... there is laughing and crying and happiness and anger and singing and loving and hugging and being silly.
The difference, when I am the screen, I don't experience the movie... so the body mind which seems like a part of the movie right now... reacts to external stimuli, however being the screen I don't get to partake in any of it since it is all being projected on me. Like, unless you stand in front of a mirror you cannot see yourself, so if people have painted your face and put some silly clothes on you and put signs all over you, you would have no clue what was happening and you can happily go about your day without knowing what has happened to you... unless you look in a mirror you don't see things on you. Like that the screen has no idea what is going on on it.
When the scene being projected changes, the previous scene is gone without leavening a mark and the next scene is enjoyed. There is no evaluation of what is happening and hence there is no attachment or aversion to the previous moment or current or future.
Since the projection is happening on me, I don't see the reds and blues and yellows and greens... since I don't see them I don't label them red, blue, yellow and green, there is no evaluation, the reds and blues and greens and yellows all become a part of the same picture and blend in perfect harmony.
Then there is no wishing for anything different since every scene, every color has a part in the movie, no part is more or less intense to the movie screen.
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Originally posted by Shanti
Harmony
The Blues and Reds and Yellows and Blacks and Whites all merge to make a beautiful painting.
You may love the color red
but dislike the color blue.
And yet
When they are together in a painting,
You see the beauty in the harmony of all the colors...
not individual ones.
Life is like that.
There is laughing and crying and joy and sorrow...
There is praising and scolding and accepting and blaming...
There is loving and rejecting and hugging and brushing aside.
But together they make a beautiful painting on the canvas of silence.
If you just look at only the red color in the painting because you are attracted to it
and ignore the blue...
You don't see the harmony of the painting
If you look for only the good in life and ignore the bad
you miss the beauty of the painting of life.
All of it is present in perfect harmony,
Unless we decide we prefer one color over the other.
http://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic....OPIC_ID=6724
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miguel
Spain
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Posted - Nov 21 2009 : 10:26:16 AM
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No words... 
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When the scene being projected changes, the previous scene is gone without leavening a mark and the next scene is enjoyed.
 yeah....
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all become a part of the same picture and blend in perfect harmony.
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Edited by - miguel on Nov 21 2009 10:31:52 AM |
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Kirtanman
USA
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Posted - Nov 21 2009 : 11:35:11 AM
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quote:
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,
_/\_
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 "EnScreenEnment"  ... 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.
_/\_
Wholeheartedly,
Kirtanman
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Edited by - Kirtanman on Nov 21 2009 11:37:47 AM |
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Shanti
USA
4854 Posts |
Posted - Nov 21 2009 : 12:34:22 PM
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Originally posted by Kirtanman
..... and using many, many, many, many more words.
...may I had a few more "manys" to that. 
Thanks Miguel and Kirtanman. |
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Etherfish
USA
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Posted - Nov 21 2009 : 12:42:36 PM
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Yes, a few days ago I was in a group of people I like, and I think a few of them were making fun of me. A long time ago I would have been hurt. Then more recently I would recognize what they were doing, and make some witty remark to let them know I wasn't hurt and they were stupid. Then after that I would recognize it and join in, exagerating what they were making fun of.
But this time I didn't care enough to even look and see if that was what they were doing! |
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emc
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Posted - Nov 21 2009 : 2:35:11 PM
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| That's wonderful, Shanti! May it be a permanent shift!!! |
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Shanti
USA
4854 Posts |
Posted - Nov 21 2009 : 3:02:12 PM
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Yes Ether... it feels wonderful does it not to be free from the movie?
Thanks emc. That would be nice. |
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BellaMente
USA
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Posted - Nov 21 2009 : 3:49:13 PM
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| Beautiful |
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djey308
USA
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Posted - Jan 17 2010 : 10:18:05 PM
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| after reading your poem, Shanti, i fell into a deep happy meditation over the phrase "All of it is present in perfect harmony." very nicely done. |
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