Life is a Series of Still Pictures

You cannot accept something when you indulge in the story—when you animate the character.

If you could watch an entire two-hour movie—ideally a movie that's really exciting and exhilarating and draws you in—and feel your own presence and see the movie purely as a series of neutral phenomena—still pictures—then you would have mastered the ability to not indulge. You would know the state of true acceptance. Blissful, awake, space-like, meaning-free acceptance. This is the state of non-indulgence.

Try it out. Try to watch an entire two-hour movie without seeing the storyline—focus only on letting the pictures be pictures, without subjectively attributing story or meaning…

Notice how the movie (or your mind rather) will tempt you to indulge in perspectives and emotions—to identify with the story. I'm not saying this is always the best way to enjoy a movie, but for the purpose of this exercise you would have to be willing to sacrifice the partial joys and thrills you get from following the trail of meaning which the movie was designed to evoke; you’d have to have the will to not indulge the incessant addiction to feeling emotion, gratification, validation and identification.

So for practice sake, see if you can watch an entire movie with nothing but a blissful sense of awareness of the whole thing without any need for meaning, to the point where you don't feel the story you just see your own presence. Even when something scary or beautiful happens, don’t enter it and don't register it; just see a neutral picture, and the bliss and the ease will stay the same. This can show you true “suchness” or equanimity.

Absolutely all of you can do this for two to five seconds, but very few will succeed perfectly for two hours straight. Somewhere within that margin is your level of enlightenment at the moment. Some are closer to the two hour mark; others are closer to the two to five second mark. But somewhere in between these two markers is your current level of will, courage, faith, confidence, conviction, concentration, and knowing yourself as the Creator.

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Видео Life is a Series of Still Pictures канала Bentinho Massaro