“Mind’s Dialogue - Life’s Monologue” by Paul Dekker

“Mind’s Dialogue - Life’s Monologue”

Lifefull Life and Mindfull Mind

Life lives and mind thinks. Thinking makes man believe he is separate from life and a doer in control of his life. The thought to be a doer is the root thought for all duality in man’s mind. Discrimination is mind’s function. Dual thoughts therefore are man’s dialogue with and within his own mind.

The mind only recognises that what it already knows. This makes man to interact only with his own thoughts which he projects onto others. Therefore man’s dialogue is only his own mental duologue as well as his own mental duel-logue, with and within his own mind.
Man recognises what is present as thoughts but expects to see the life he imagines, in the same way a sculptor recognises a rock and sees the statue he imagines in it, a painter recognises a white canvas and sees the painting he imagines on it, a composer recognises an empty sheet and sees the notes he imagines on it or an actor recognises a script and sees the character he imagines in it. Seeing is believing, which are one’s own thoughts!
Like all artists, who create the product of their art, an actor maintains a dialogue between the images within himself to create a character, which he projects from within himself upon others.
A character, on stage as well as off stage, exists on the premises of its own images it maintains. An actor on stage knows a character he enacts, to be an illusion but enacts it as real, while an actor off stage thinks the character he projects upon others, to be real not realising it is illusory. This is the intelligence of life to make man understand that a character on stage or off stage is illusory and not real.
Life being one, is all there is. Therefore dialogue is impossible in life but possible only in the mind as an illusion. Illusory dialogue therefore creates a drama of illusory reality on stage as well as a drama of illusory reality off stage in life.

Dialogue on stage as well as dialogue off stage is the illusory battle of beliefs for life is timeless in the moment and time is required for any dialogue. Man to be a character enters the arena on stage as well as the arena in daily life, to get what he wants which is part of the drama. To do so he counsels his opponent and manages a dialogue, which he thinks, but does not realise the dialogue is only a drama in man’s mind.

None of the elements water, fire, earth, air and space/time think nor speak, neither do plants nor animals. Only man appears to think and speak and therefore dialogue surrounds him. This convinces man he thinks, speaks and does. But even to him life is just moving, that is all.

Life happens by itself to man. And everything only happens for man to understand life can’t be avoided. Life happens in the now and transforms in the now, that is its evolving and sophisticating movement in the moment.

In life a doer is absent therefore also a character, ambition, stand, doing, interaction, relation, obstruction and combat are absent. Drama to be a dia-, duo- and duel-logue is not in life but only in mind, as an illusion.

Life’s play of light and sound is one but appears as two in man’s mind as a dialogue. Therefore, mind’s dialogue is life’s continuous, spontaneous, uncontrollable and unpredictable monologue.

Copyright: Paul Dekker, 2012

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