To: K-list
Recieved: 2001/03/17 17:21
Subject: [K-list] All the world's a stage
From: Christopher Wynter
On 2001/03/17 17:21, Christopher Wynter posted thus to the K-list:
"All the worlds a stage ..
and all the men and women, merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
and each one in their time plays many parts."
So wrote William Shakespeare 400 odd years ago
in "As you like it"
When I go to the theatre to enjoy a play, I can sit back and
watch the scene unravel before me .. I see an overall picture
as presented by the director .. the interwoven matrix of
personalities that go up to make the complete story ..
parts of me resonate with the story line, parts of me identify
momentarily with different characters. The props and the
scenery add a dimension to the overall impact.
The director of the play steps back from the written word
and takes a "higher perspective" .. seeing this weft and
warp of the weave .. the tantra existing in the moment as
each player contributes to the whole.
As I sit in the audience, swept up in this detachment, I
experience the emotions, the highs and the lows .. yet
time does not stand still.
But what would happen if I jumped up on the stage and
tried to take over the role of one of the actors because I
thought I knew the lines better .. or because I knew my
training in acting was better than someone else's?
What then would happen to the tantra set in motion by the
director around the individual facets of the tools he had to
work with at the time .. actors individually honed and
polished .. not for individual performance, but for the
overall presentation.
What happens when I sit in the audience and focus on
the part played by one particular actor or actress .. how
many of the nuances of the interplays will pass unnoticed ..
How much of Life will I miss ..
We, each of us, is a living tantra ..
Who is our unconscious inner Director ..
and how many times do we even hear this director
let alone heed what we hear ..
Do we allow the play to unfold ..
or are we stuck on our individual reaction
to one of the other players ..
or one of the props ..
To whom do we give the power of
God or Goddess ..
and is this God or Goddess
Mother or Father
merely some other actor to whom
we have handed the responsibility
for the staging of our own life's play ...
thus abdicating our own directorship ..
defining our own expression of Tantra
by someone else's rules - and experiences ..?
CW
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