Posted by Jai Narayan on August 13, 2004, at 21:37:10
"Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions. Without reactions the world becomes clear."
Jack KornfieldYesterday I went to the movie "Manchurian Candidate". It was a very dark and disturbing movie. Movies are illusions that can create very real emotions. I came away deeply upset about our world being filled with people who are greedy for money, power and control. From that point on I saw everything in a negative and unpleasant light.
This fear gripped me. Then I felt helpless to do anything about the world. I was in total reaction to the movie.Today I am free to feel anything. I feel liberated from yesterday's feeling of fear that had captured my imagination.
I ask what is reality?
What's real?
It's the same world today.
I am the same person I was yesterday.
Or am I?
I now have that movie in my memory.
It's one more illusion for me to draw from.
How could I have applied Jack Kornfield's comment to my emotions?
What would the world look like if it were clear?
poster:Jai Narayan
thread:377410
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