This so-called universe appears as a juggling, a picture show. To be happy, look upon it so.
- Unhappiness requires seriousness as its foundation. You cannot be happy with a serious mind. The technique is not a method for producing happiness — it is a change of attitude, and the happiness follows automatically.
- Look at a cinema audience: they weep, laugh, get sexually excited over light-and-shadow on a blank screen. They have forgotten it is a story. Life works the same way — you have forgotten you are a spectator who got drawn in.
- The world is LEELA — divine play, not a serious creation. God is a player, not a judge. Rules exist (marriage, divorce) the way rules exist in a game — they structure play but carry no ultimate weight. There is no sin, only error; you suffer from the error’s built-in consequences, not from any punishment.
- Practical experiment: for seven days live as if you are playing a part — be a ‘play husband,’ a ‘play wife.’ You will still do the part efficiently, but without being disturbed. Efficiency does not require seriousness; seriousness only creates suffering. Seven days of this gives glimpses of your original consciousness (buddha-nature) — once tasted, you cannot go back.
- Nuance from Q2: When you begin to see life as a psychodrama, loneliness and detachment may arise, and the ‘intensity’ and ‘depth of living’ may seem lost. Do not resist this. Feel the loneliness entirely — nothing in this world is permanent, and the loneliness will move by itself. The ‘depth’ that vanishes when you see life as drama was false depth; real depth is unconditional and cannot be dissolved by a change of perception. Let the snake disappear; only the rope (the real) was ever there.
- Nuance from Q2: Do not do anything to fix the emptiness of the gap between the false dissolving and the real appearing. Any action taken from a confused, transitional mind stirs up more mud. The stream clears itself when you stop wading through it. Wait in total non-doing until the false has fully gone and the real can appear.