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Recieved: 2001/03/17 18:23
Subject: [K-list] Re: All the world's a stage
From: Divine Goddess
On 2001/03/17 18:23, Divine Goddess posted thus to the K-list:
Dear Christopher,
Please come up and play with us.
We really do want to play with you too.
:)
Susan
--- In Kundalini-GatewayATnospamy..., Christopher Wynter <lifestreamsATnospamb...>
wrote:
> "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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