Game plan

First you create the mood, the vibe, the space.
Then enter the actors.
They are just pulled in by the magnetism of the apparent circumstances.
Each person, like a train on a track.
Trained to react in the standard way.
This is known as being oneself,
but really this is just being played.
You become a non paid actor.
Passionate in your part, ready to give it all.
To give life, to a false creation.
Whether it be a nation, a partner
an ideal, a rebellion.
Its called giving away everything for nothing.
Unless you really know who you are and why you do what you do,
your more than likely someone’s puppy puppet.
Yes it hurts when you find out you’ve been played
But that is called awakening to the truth of matter.
When it comes to plays or theatre
your life just does not matter.
For life to matter, its entirely up to you
and your choices.
Once its you who chooses,
your the one who wins or looses.
Or even better to reach
the state of no loss or gain.
But remember for certain,
that is no game.
Every new day is an opportunity
to be yourself.
We all fall back into one game or another.
Feel no shame,
Its all there for us to uncover.
When we fall in, we learn.
Learn to step aside.

eliberocelta may 2016 Torcal.

a reply to: ancientthunder

wonderful. Thanks!
I don't have anything much to add other than to show appreciation.

but....

Once its you who chooses,
your the one who wins or looses.
Or even better to reach
the state of no loss or gain.

this part is the strongest part for me.
We have to choose and not make or wait for others to choose for us.
May that be some kinda god or other people.

We have free will to choose and we should use it wisely.

And at the end I really like metaphor you used to describe games, shame and finally learning to surrender or stop playing and step aside!
is this giving up or winning?
or maybe it is not this or that - neither?!

(rhetorical question)

Brilliant!

a reply to: ancientthunder

Very good !



leolady

Hi thanks for your personal brakedown, thats the positive side of comunication. It allows others to see the meaning or a direction or view one can adopt. The peice about winning or loosing and then the highest option is to to be and do and worry not about the loss or gain. "In other words, its not relevant to you anymore" as an example you do something just for the art of it, not for the competition. Believe it or not it is possible!a reply to: UniFinity

a reply to: ancientthunder

thank you for your words, no belief needed, I know it is possible.
I had luck and pleasure to sometimes experience relaxed blissful mind during practice, but I am still a beginner when it comes to the art of being.
Although, it was short and very sweet experience when it happened for the first time, but many doubts had vanished at that moment.

I like what you have written for your mood, breathing.
It seems to me that practice of observing the breath is a good practice to
learn to be relaxed and let go,
learn to be mindful,
to be.
is seems so easy, to easy and therefore it sleeps away.

Secret in plain sight.

Maybe it doesnt slip away, more like something stands in its way. When you realize something thats it!, the mundane thoughts and perceptions slip back and do their usual thing. Its all about how much center stage you give them. a reply to: UniFinity

a reply to: ancientthunder

yes, great insight, right on the spot!

ha ha!
it seems,
I have fallen into another game when I was posting,
but it is joyful to clear a level.

: )

I am not saying I got enlightened, haha!,
I cannot "get that", anyway...
but I "feel" what you mean,
maybe I still don't have enough confidence and practice
to completely let go, step aside.

Playing games seems still to fun sometimes,
even when it is clear that they are all,
magic and dreams.
even my body, "I", and the thinking mind.
Empty, void of any real substance,
in deep contemplation and absorption.

It seems, like I am searching for a stop button,
but if there is no button, and no game in "final reality"
how can "I" step aside?

it seems, searching is not the way,
but I just have to let playing go and wash away
and whatever sad or good game comes my way,
"I" know what it "is" and
I feel always happy and eager to play,
pretending, until I completely wash away!

: )

huh, well, I don't know how much sense does that make to other minds, it was a weird moment of inspiration after contemplating your post... but for me it makes sense of "nonsense", which can be reality...sometimes.

or...one can read it at as a post of a madman, it is the same to me, how you look at it, I am just another slightly wired guy on the net

ha ha!