Presence and understanding

[Steppingfeet]

Gary! I love that movie analogy. I am not an actor, nor am I the movie itself. I am the screen upon which it is projected.

Like all analogies it is limited, but in a single frame of reference it helps to clarify and orient so freaking well. Glad you dig!!

Btw, though I expanded upon it, the analogy comes from Ramana Maharshi. His life was an exposition of discovering the self as the screen (liberation), then discovering the self as screen *and* movie (non-dual realization), and ultimately completely dissolving the illusion of separation or the individual "I", and with it eradicating the seeds of suffering (Buddhahood, as far as I'm aware).

It was years into studying Ramana that I discovered that Tolle feels a special kinship with RM's work, feeling that he (Tolle) is working in the same lineage or spirit.