How could reality be a performer? You asked me whether I perform or am merely a performance myself. Well, when an individual labels himself as such, there then arises that performer who can separate from "others" and label his "own" experiences as separate.
As I see it, that's how most people already think. Most people already see themselves as an individual something that is separate from "others". However, I think that's a sort of illusion.
There is a tug of war, because we can be forces of our own. That is obvious in the abundant strife present in humanity.
Maybe you are right about that, I don't know. I just don't see any reason to actually believe that. You could say that a person has a will of his own, but is that true? Or is everything you are ever going to do already determined by forces which are beyond your control? Is "the abundant strife present in humanity" the result of some sort of conflict between different peoples conflicting desires, or is it really just a part of the nature of our reality, like a chemical reaction that we don't actually have any control over? I suppose you could say it is both, depending on what your perspective is. But what's the truth? Is there any reason at all to believe an "individual" has a will of his own?
If you spread ideas that individual conscious is illusion, then those that listen will forfeit the idea of the oh so necessary creative revolution of their minds.
How so? What is this "oh so necessary creative revolution"?
The ones with minds already made will continue their actions of self-interest and the evils in civilization will persist, leading to things I don't hope to see in my lifetime, yet work to thwart.
What do you mean by this? Isn't this a little contradictory?
The individual is an illusion depending on the perspective. Observations of the tree render people as leaves part of the whole, but those leaves can choose to change color in the fall, and you can watch each one of them.
There are patterns in the nature of forces and energies of which we are subject, because we are nature ourselves. It is necessarily determined, but to an extent, after which it becomes theory, because I see a conscious energy and there is just no way to quantify and physical measure it. The other energies we utilize (i.e. metabolic chemical, nervous electrical, and muscular kinetic) can be rationed and used according to this central station of consciousness activity, which is such a web, it is easy to get caught. Simply following trains of thought can help us understand ourselves. Each individual must do it. That is a sign that there is such a thing as the single unit: each individual must understand themselves, it can't be given to them. When that understanding has happened, the source of desire and beliefs, knowledge, all the mess of our centre is revealed. It is sky-- desires, clouds passing by...
However, that understanding is quite rare... so rare. So many leaves starting to wither simply because they see their petiole...
Many people feel so self understood, like they really KNOW themselves, but all they've done is set standards-- beliefs and visions of what 'should.' Naturally, conflict will be created. They have their reasons, justifications (excuses,) but so much is wrong. It is based on self-interest, which can only be enclosing and isolating, inherently evil. Gain and attainment are selfish, even for groups and organizations, religions. Conflict with people elsewhere is inevitable when a self is identified separately, especially in righteous ways, judgmental and critical.
Seeing all of this is quite the revolution, because when one really sees what
is, then one will understand reality. Unfortunately, the foundation of our present dominant civilization goes against this unfiltered perception-- this perception that discerns such a unity... receives and can emit such love...
This industrial civilization that lives off the poor can bring decimation to a once beautiful planet (it's already brought some.) I work to fight against this in anyway, be it through 'green' technologies, being a candle, or simply reduction of a carbon footprint.
Perceiving leads to realization to understanding to freedom and love and truth and light and disappointment and "God" to a constant revolution of the mind that perpetually transforms to this present moment, greeting it all anew, fresh, and the mind itself fresh, full of energy ready to earnestly approach the problems in society, that relationship between you and me.
Our discordant symphony is the song of our ability to act freely. Desires are controlled by beliefs which are formed by labeled experiences, which are biased segregations of reality's whole: a total pink noise orchestra of each player playing his heart out.
