"Action-less Life - Action-full Drama" by Paul Dekker

Action-less Life - Action-full Drama

Life makes mind happen, and mind believes the drama of life to be real. Life itself is without meaning, for all meanings about life are mind’s donation to life happening. Therefore all meanings about life are illusory.

The first act the mind thinks to be able to, is to think. Thinking to be able to think creates the illusion for man being an ‘I’, capable to think. Illusory thinking separates an illusory thinker from real life.

An illusory ‘I’ believes to ‘know’ life. Illusory knowing separates an illusory knower from real life.

And an illusory ‘I’ also believes to be the ‘doer’ in life. Illusory doing separates an illusory doer from real life.

All along with the thought of being an ‘I’ able to ‘think’, ‘know’ and ‘do’, comes mans imaginary authority, and authority induces dramatisation.

‘To be, or not to be, that is the question’

The question To be or not to be put by a play writer, bears the answer in itself, if the question is understood to be a question-less question. For it is life that puts illusory questions into man’s mind, to enable man to understand life itself is without questions.

It is not up to man to be or not to be, for life simply happens without man doing anything. Man is simply included in life’s happening, and therefore man is not existing as an independent entity. Man as such is an illusion in the illusion of life.

‘Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action’.

With the illusion of a doer the illusion of action has taken birth. Thinking to be the doer makes man think to be able to control life, through actions.

But, actions are absent in life, for life is cause-less and effect-less. Life is a flow and not a sum of events.

The very word drama means action in Old Greek, therefore action is the corn stone for all drama, be it drama of life or a drama on a stage.

Cause and effect are illusory demarcations of illusory actions. Therefore, all actions are only thoughts, worded through verbs.
‘What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.’
What is in a thought but only an image, actions as such are merely images in mans mind, but not present in life.

Thinking to be the doer, makes man embark for a rollercoaster of actions, all illusory for life is action-less.

This way man lives an imaginary world in which actions are illusory, for a doer is an illusion.

The whole drama comes down to one illusory question: Who wants What from Whom, When, Where and Why?
‘Suit the action to the word, the word to the action’.

Drama of life as well as a drama on a stage, is build upon images and thoughts put into words. Words bare the potention to be enacted. If executed actions are suit to the words and the words to the actions, of course all illusory.

In life actions are non-existent, they can only be imparted upon life by the mind as an illusion. Same wise actions don’t exist in a stage dialogue, they can only be imparted by the actors mind upon the text to be able to action the text.

In life unconsciously the mind actions life that happens, into a drama to the mind. On a stage consciously the actor actions the text which is an illusion altogether, into a drama to be performed in front of an audience.

‘Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! 
Is it not monstrous that this player here, 
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit 
That from her working all his visage wann'd, 
Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, 
A broken voice, and his whole function suiting 
With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing!’

Man thinks the life he lives, an actor lives the life he thinks. Man lives an imaginary world thinking it to be real, an actor instead lives an imaginary world knowing it to be illusory.

The only difference between drama of life and a drama on a stage, is the actor to be aware the illusory nature of the enacted illusion is its reality.

‘O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily
do, not knowing what they do!’
Life itself is empty, but to the mind it makes appear a drama, in which the individuals are characters enacted by a single actor, called life.

A stage too is empty, and with the actor as the character appears an imaginary world, to disappear with the actor.

‘What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how
infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and
admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like
a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet,
to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me—
nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so’.

Life is the only and soly actor reflecting all drama including all its characters, be it drama of life or a drama on a stage. Therefore it is only life that earns an Oscar for best actor, best director, and best script.

Only the illusion can be admired to be illusory, for life itself is just admiration-less admiration. Like an actor admires playing a drama on a stage, man is to become admirering the drama life plays through him.

Man is playful life, for life is but a play of light and sound, including man to be a witnesser of life’s play.

Life has granted man a ‘fool’s license’, and fools are aware they are ‘fools’, meaning they are a nobody and a non-doer.

‘A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool’.


Man who is aware of his fool’s license enjoys every drama of life, be it a tragedy or a comedy.

While living, man is to become aware that life plays him, for life’s play is destiny at work, evolving and sophisticating, as man.

Playful life appearing as playful man, playfully enjoys witnessing life’s play, a drama of all kind on stage as well as off-stage, but, of course, all illusory.

Copyright 2011 Paul Dekker, Actor and Teacher

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