Why do we forget?
Question: Why do we forget who we really are, where we came from, our inextricable connection to our source?
Answer: You wouldn't play the game otherwise. You wouldn't take it seriously and throw yourself into it fully.
It's like actors: they know they're only playing a part, yet the great ones throw themselves into it fully, disappearing for a time into their assumed characters. But it's all just play; it's even called “a play.” It's play.
It's all play. And it's vastly more fun and enriching when you give yourself to it completely.
Question: What about animals?
Answer: Animals give themselves to it completely; they assume and inhabit their roles fully. That way, their game is unreservedly rich and rewarding.
Question: But don't animals have a rough time of life on earth?
Answer: Sometimes. But remember: every observable thing, every particle of the universe, is our source at play. Nothing can truly be harmed or lost or destroyed; only transformed, into something else or back into its original state, which is bliss.
The game is being played for the sheer enjoyment of it, for the movement, the dance, of forming, de-forming (disintegrating), re-forming, and so on. Every imaginable form is experienced, is savoured, appreciated, enjoyed — for the sole purpose of feeling it, seeing it, knowing it, experiencing it directly.
The game is everlasting because there is an infinite number of particles and combinations and relationships and actions — ad infinitum.
There's not really any such thing as matter; only condensation of energy into things to play with, and to play at being. When you take yourself (your individual human life) too seriously, it is simply that you've temporarily lost yourself in the game. That's just fine. That's all part of the game.
When you find yourself for a few brief moments suddenly aware of the game, that's it, too. And when you forget again, that, too, is it!
All of it is just fine, just as it should be. All rich and rewarding parts of the game.
Question: I want to live in this awareness all the time now. What is stopping me?
Answer: Nothing, other than your habitual focus on distractions, human conventions, what others are telling you about how things are, what things mean, and your (imagined tiny, inconsequential) place in it.
Question: This perspective seems so callous to one who is completely absorbed in the game, who has just lost someone they love. Would you please help me explain it with love and kindness, warmth and wit?
Answer: Yes. It's simple: don't take things quite so seriously. Love and laugh without holding back. Love without holding on, with an open hand rather than a clenched fist.
All life is eternal because life is movement, and it is perpetual in one way or another. Whenever you resist change, you resist life itself; and that is the way of stagnation, ossification, mummification, dessication, restriction, constriction, discomfort, pressure, tension, pain, and all those other unpleasant feelings or experiences.
Ending one chapter of your life naturally begins another. Whether the next is expansive or restrictive is up to you. There is guilt and shame in feeling the opening of the next chapter as an opening, an expansion, a sense of relief or freedom, but there needn't be.
The next chapter is inevitable, unless you die, too; so why not experience its beginnings, its newness, with a sense of adventure, of possibilities… of space, of invitation, of an opportunity to create something new that you might not have even conceived of, or considered, before.
Change is simply something different from what came before. It is as wonderful or as dreadful as you want it to be.
Remember: every observable thing, every particle
in the universe, is our source at play.
The Game
hide seek find laugh
Christine King
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