"Drama of Life - Drama on Stage" by Paul Dekker

Drama of Life - Drama on Stage

Life teaches man its drama in many ways, and one of them is a stage drama. Stage drama holds a mirror up to man in which it reflects life’s drama.

No mind can control life for life is needed to project a mind. Mind is illusory and life is real. Illusory mind is not in real life, therefore life and mind have never met.

‘All the world is a stage’.

A play writer once stated All the world is a stage. The statement compares the world to a stage and life to a play.

The actor enacts a drama on a stage. To do so he is aware that his acting is not real but only an appearance. The actor appears as a character in the given imaginary circumstances of a drama play.

In life innumerable actions take place constantly, which man is not aware of. An actor instead is consciously aware of his identification with every action he does on stage, to be the character.

In a drama play every single moment and the trough line of moments enacted, is programmed within the actor. This enables him to reproduce his acting night after night, while he is the witness of his acting.

In life all actions happen by creation as a happening. Life that happens make man think he is the doer, and therefore make him identify with his thoughts about actions.

As a doer man thinks himself to be separated from life, able to do an action. While the real state of affairs is that in life actor, action and acting are one, of which man is not aware.

Man is an actor in life’s drama. But because man thinks he is the doer he converts the drama into life, but actually life is just a drama.
‘Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.’

In life man does never know what the next moment will be. The scenes, dialogues and situations keep on changing every moment in life.

Life is an ongoing drama and man is the first time in every scene. But because man believes it is a reality, he gets identified and becomes that role. That is the bondage to man.

An actor instead is free from identification with his role, as long as he performs, for he knows he is only acting.

In life man is not the doer, but same wise as an actor in a stage drama, also man is an actor enacting different roles, situations and dialogues in life.
Everything in life gets enacted by life through man an unexpected, uncontrollable and unpredictable spontaneous way.

Every moment there is something new in life. From the unknown source a variety of unlimited movements come into life, they are poured by life into life.

Every day in life is but a stage show. A drama on a stage go’s on for an hour and a half, but a drama for man in life go’s on his whole life.

Man can not stop life but ages and will become older till he dyes. Life is a one-off show with no rehearsals.

All men are actors in life, and they all play roles life makes them perform. No man will know when his curtain will close. Until then he might rejoices the drama of life. For this is it. No change or substitute.

For man who realises that life is mysterious and he is just alive, his aliveness will become very precious to him, and not the thought ‘I am the doer’.

What then becomes the most attentive to man is that what is alive in him, not his mind, but that what is beating in him. That what brings out the ear in him, makes him see, makes him taste, makes him hear, makes him touch, and makes him smell.

When man becomes familiar with the aliveness in him, he will become a witnesser watching the show of life. He will simply see what life is at every new and fresh moment.

At that very moment man becomes life, and he greats life that simply happens and nobody is responsible for anything. For life is the doer and the world is a stage on which it performs its drama through man, to be an actor playing different characters.

Man does not act, neither in life nor on stage, for only life acts as man in the world and as man called actor on a stage.

‘…the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as it where the mirror up to nature: to show virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure’.

Mental life is a drama that appears as real life, and mental life is also a drama that appear as a drama on a stage.

Illusion unveils illusion, as this f.e. happens as life appears as a stage drama unveiling the drama of life.

© Copyright 2011 Paul Dekker, actor.

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