The Movie Of Time and Space
The hidden belief of being a separate self shows up in the mind and body in the form of fearful misidentification, feeling separate and thoughts of lack and personal desire that indicate separateness. The contracted energy of the mind and body drives us towards a perfectionism of having to be something and have something, in particular, to be happy. It sets us apart from the environment, which we see as the source of our happiness, and yet antagonistic to it.
Waking up to realise we are not the mind but the undefinable reality, reading these words, perfect as it is, and letting go of the false identification with the mind and body liberates us from this. The experience on the mind and body of realising the freedom from them and glimpsing the reality beyond the mind can be truly astounding. To recognise the true nature of what we are is a beautiful thing indeed. Glimpsing it may be sudden or gradual, but that does not matter. Over time, quite naturally, following it, the mind loses its power to define existence. Instead of being the only lens through which to see existence, it is downgraded to being a useful tool that says nothing about what we are.
As it becomes so, the raw beauty and vibrancy of existence, as it is, in all its super-ordinary glory, becomes apparent. What we perceive is loved as it is recognised as an appearance of the conscious reality we are. Not separate from it or antagonistic to it, but an expression of it. We finally recognise the perfection of what is and surrender to the creative flow of this conscious reality that every moment manifests a Universe in stillness, but what the mind recognises is a Universe of forms in a movie it calls 'Time and Space and Cause and Effect.'
Finally, we can enjoy watching and taking part in the movie without losing our identity in it, as we know we are the causeless reality not bound by it. We never forget it is only a movie we call 'Time and Space and Cause and Effect,' and recognise that it is only when we forget that and become so entranced with the movie that the notion that all we are is a separate character in it and nothing more is born. In that instant, we become a victim of this belief and suffer, and then, as is the nature of the movie of 'Time and Space and Cause And Effect,' our strategy becomes to try and control the plot of the movie against the backdrop of feeling inadequate to the task. We experience the 'Movie Script of Separateness' flowing through the mind in a plethora of judgements, criticisms, comparisons, and catastrophisations.
Waking up from seeing ourselves as a character in the movie 'Time and Space and Cause and Effect,' we liberate ourselves from the 'Movie Script of Separateness,' and can once again laugh and cry with the flow of the movie, sometimes stumbling on the stage, sometimes forgetting our lines, sometimes needing a prompt from a voice off stage to help us but never forgetting that this movie is not reality.
Remembering all this, a 'Movie Script of Oneness' becomes apparent in the mind, and we realise the plot of this movie of 'Time and Space and Cause and Effect' is being written in the moment, spontaneously, and there is no author. It's self-generating. The very fact that this movie exists is the real miracle and not the content of the movie, and we can trust that whatever it is that has the power to make this movie of 'Time and Space and Cause and Effect' is what we are, and our existence is safe in that knowledge. We can let go of thinking we have to write the script and allow the script to emerge without fear. Furthermore, in this allowing openness, the character we occupy, now relieved of any false identification, can be purified of its defensive habits that hampered its performance. The character can draw on its underlying authenticity and bring to its performance power and aliveness it may have previously lacked.
Love,
Freyja
