Or Some Such
Just as the separate frames that constitute a reel of film conjure up a continuous reality. (With this reality itself but an illusory imagining of the director, the writer, the actors.)
I recall reading of a Buddhist master who, when asked about the nature of reality, enlightenment or some such – I don’t remember the exact question – I have slept many times since then – said nothing but snuffed out a nearby candle and relit it immediately.
Posted on November 19, 2016, in Not A Poem At All and tagged Life, Reality. Bookmark the permalink. 18 Comments.
so fortunate
we’re
re-lit ๐
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Well that’s a positive approach. ๐
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I’m sure we must be recycled in some way.
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In which case maybe that’s how we got here.
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If only we could remember!
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I generally find that the ongoing present to be quite enough to be going on with. ๐
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Sometimes words cannot reach…
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“Who feels it knows it”
– Bob Marley
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Reblogged this on Spirit Train Chronicles.
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Did you go on the galactic light ship last night?
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I certainly went somewhere but many of my “trips” are symbolic rather than straightforward and literal.
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And reading your post was just such a moment. Made me go “wow!” with the movie frame analogy…. (Plus there’s some synchronicity involved to this “wow” which I’ll save for another time…)
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Another time, eh. I shall look forward to it, Betty. ๐
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Seems I never got back to you? Sorry, Ben. Seems like it was about a dream I’d had which had me looking at time in light of the movie frame analogy. Wish I’d written it down as it’s fuzzy now. We were right in the middle of packing and moving at the time.
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I wasn’t meaning to gently chide you here, my friend. Just noting the images and themes threading through the apparency of time. ๐
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But that’s what makes it fascinating. ๐ And it’s okay if you do chide me; it’s good not to leave loose threads hanging about.
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“itโs good not to leave loose threads hanging about.”
Now *there’s* a dream. ๐
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๐ ๐
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