There is a myth about the Self and God of the universe who sees life as a form of play. But since the Self is what there is and all that there is and thus has no one separate to play with, he plays the cosmic game of hide and seek with himself. He takes on the roles and masks of individual people such as You and I and thus becomes involved in exciting and terrifying adventures, all the time forgetting who he really is. Eventually, however, the Self awakens from his many dreams and fantasies and remembers his true identity., the one and eternal Self of the cosmos who is never born and never dies.
This myth symbolizes a universal experience that has permeated nearly every major religion in one form or another and which lies at the root of much of the world's great creativity. It is a dramatic representation of the experience which we in the West have referred to as Cosmic Consciousness. It has been described in various ways such as enlightenment, The Way, liberation, moksha, Nirvana, satori and even the Kingdom of Heaven in the terminology of Jesus.
The word "personality" comes from the latin word "persona," which originally referred to an actors mask. It is rather a humilating discovery to realize that all the years of effort and turmoil have been spent in a state of slumber, that from our earliest memories of childhood we have been half asleep and have been acting with only partial wareness. We have been hypnotized by the nature of words thus becoming alienated from our own organism and from the larger organism of the universe itself.
Freud was on the right track, yet he failed to carry his narcissism to it's ultimate conclusion in which it would include within itself the whole universe, thus doing away with the separation of the conscious from the unconscious, the subject from the object. Through confusing words and abstractions with reality itself, we have created an artifical role or personality for ourselves and in the process forgotten that it is just a role and not the source of our actions. Society has tricked us into the belief that our minds are inside our heads and act independently from it at the same time that it is also telling us who we are and what we should be doing.
But since the mind then includes all of one's social relationships, it is not inside the skin of the individual at all but is actually outside of it.
The ego-contradiction is the basic thorn which society has implanted since childhood and from which we are suffering without being able to see the vicious circle involved. We have been convinced that we are free and independent agents and yet, the very agent reffered to is actually a social role that is defined by other people and has no freedom to act at all.
To get out of that circle we need a kind of passive awareness of ourselves in every situation. For only awareness, NOW, in the present moment can reveal the true source of action, which is not the ego at all but rather the total environmental field of which the organism is only one side of a mutual polarity.
If one turns their focus to the Ordinary things in life that we pay no mind, instead of all the extraordinary things our minds are beset with, one can find they can get in touch with their actual reality by living in the moment, instead of anticipated moments. Whether you believe in the Mystical or the Practicle in every day living, spending some time in the NOW moment that exist in the Ordinary, provides you a harbor of tranquility against the raging seas of the Extraordinary we as humans are err to spend each day in.
Yasha
The world we live in is not the true reality of the world, but a conceptual model of what mankind defines as a conceptual world.
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