Zen: Projections

I would honestly love to write about this stuff every day. It's just so much "fun" to write about Zen because it's such an ethereal thing. And language is a product of Mind, but not just a small manufacturing. Language is the very thing that enabled us to move from primates to humans, to communicate and grow into a different type of animal. A society. But Zen is something altogether separate, transcendent to Mind, and therefore language.  Using language to describe no-mind is kind of like describing "black" as "the color inside a black hole".

So, while I sit here bubbling with ideas about how to share with you, I'm often staring at my keyboard in dismay. And as you can tell from reading, I generally am not stuck for verbage. But to say these things correctly, language is often insufficient. And I choose to give you the full impression, and not give you a small filtered version.

Projections refer to your very existence. To borrow an extremely useful metaphor from Osho, when you go to the movies, everyone looks at the screen. But the movie doesn't come from there, it's a blank white sheet. But nobody is looking back at the projector.

Your Mind is the projector. If you let it, it will show you infinite tales, of mystery, intrigue, dualities and drama like you've never seen before. But, there are as many worlds as there are minds. You can choose to live in any of them, including the real one. But it requires being separate from the projector. Stepping outside the movie, to see it from the outside.

Are you your thoughts? Are you what your senses tell you? Do you have a soul?

Remember this. Let's say you're on a vast, futuristic Star-Trek type ship, staring out into the gorgeous vastness of the galaxies. Picture it, the wonder of it all. Now, remember that while you feel like you're looking out a giant window pane, you're probably staring a viewscreen that has been specially designed to simulate the feel and appearance of the real window. But the picture is elsewhere, it's been processed by a computer, chewed up and spit out repeatedly. And maybe nothing happened to change it. Or maybe it's entirely fabricated.

You may feel like you're behind your eyes. It's possible, it happens, it's a choice you can make. I'll lay odds the size of Canada though you're looking at a viewscreen in your brain.

It's the natural condition that man has become used to. Your Mind is still the best movie software ever. The movie is always played on your eyes, and it seamlessly integrates into any imagined dream instantly. It's the ultimate in seamlessness, can you even catch the transitions? It's the ultimate episode of "Mr. Show", where you're watching the next skit before you realize, "Hey, what happened to that other thing they were doing?"

So, this is just true. So, we have the ultimate XBox360,000,000 for our movie projector. Well, that explains whey we are always using it. I mean, when Jean Luc Picard looks out the window, the captain of the ship, he chooses the fancy viewscreen. It's like a window, but with extra features, enhancements.

Your Mind is still the ultimate eye-candy tool on the planet. So use it! Enjoy it! Now that you are standing here, looking at the projector, do you see magic that it can do? Great, I love it. Love it.

Back to the original point.

If you've given control of the projector over to your mind, you are watching what it chooses for you. It is picking out your viewing selections 24-7 all week. :D  So, you have great programming to watch.  Hmmm...programming...where have I heard that word? 

But by relinquishing control, you've also signed a hidden, implied contract with your Mind. You've given it free reign to smudge or straight-up invent "reality". Think about how different someone can look to you, based purely on your feelings for that person. Do you have an ex, that was gorgeous to you when you were together, but is now repellent to your eyes? That's your mind, adding it's special effects to your movie. To give you, let's face it, a more thorough experience of the events. In Futurama, they invented the "smelloscope", to smell the regions of deep space. In this case, you are getting sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch, but your brain is taking all of those and mixing it up with emotions, memories, hormones, and presenting you with the best concoction it can produce. In real-time.

I invite you simply to join me at the window sometimes. To watch your movie, and remember the projector.