They offer to us in pictures and sounds what we have failed to see in ourselves collectively and individually. Instead of condemning the actors, we should see the condemned actions as evidence of our OWN fallen habits staring at us like a mirror. It is not that the actors have no responsibility, but rather that their responsibility is not to any one of us who see through a glass darkly. But what we disdain in others, what singes us and grieves our soul, is a message to us about ourselves, otherwise, we would NOT NOTICE IT AT ALL.
The ridiculousness of faux show palaces and images without intentional direction is a microcosm of our inner attitudes, for what is created externally is first conceived inwardly and fed and watered to fruition. It is the acceptance of the notion that whatever we conceive should be real-ized, rather than the careful sifting of the wheat from the chaff, which is burned.
Excess of song and dance, of food and drinking, and laughter and levity in handling the sacred, as the relationship between a primary and his life mate. No, these acts of excess are not what cause the inward decay, but rather they are merely the external display of decayed thinking in the important matters of love and justice, that every one should eat to live and that without hoarding there is enough for all.
It is not that laughter is evil, but that laughter in the face of injustice in front of our faces is imbalanced and shows our disconnectedness from our neighbor, and does not the knowledge burn in our hearts that we are to laugh when he laughs, but cry when he cries, and eat when he eats, and not eat when he doesn't eat because he has nothing?
Yes, we know this in our hearts, and we don't need a teacher at all to know what is written in our hearts, because no one of us can teach us these things, but they are given to us in moments of stillness. What we conceive in our hearts and care for and tend to in this life, when we die they are committed to the Earth and will blossom into realization in future generations of life, and we either pass on further decay or budding fruit of health and life force.
Let's live with this purpose, knowing that no action is possible without having first conceived the thought of this action, and tending to and caring for it to bring it to realization, and let us reflect on our actions to understand how they were created, and seeds of thought we sowed to bring them to life. What goals do we have? A world at peace? No wars, no starvation when there is plenty? Will we get there? Not in one lifetime. But plant the seed, and when it is buried, others will water and the life forces in creation will create a harvest.
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