Silence shared in words
presents
Live Life... Don't Just Watch It on TV
A man
is
sitting in a
cinema,
and the wife
is continually reminding him how the hero is
showing his love so deeply to his wife.
Finally, the husband says, "Stop all this nonsense!
You don't know how much he's paid for it!
And moreover, it is only acting;
it is not reality.
I will certainly say he is a good actor."
The wife said, "Perhaps you are not aware
that in actual life also they are wife and husband."
He said, "My God!
If that is true, then he is the greatest actor I have ever seen;
otherwise, even
on the stage,
to show so much love to your own wife
is simply
beyond
human capacity.
He is almost
a genius as far as acting is concerned."
People think love
is only for actors.
It has been
noted by psychoanalysts
that people are sitting in front of their TV's for hours.
An American
watches TV six hours per day on average
that is the average.
There may be few maniacs
watching nine hours, ten hours, twelve hours.
Slowly, slowly
watching movies, watching television,
watching a football match, watching
tournament,
people have simply become
observers;
they don't love.
Some actor loves -- they simply watch.
They don't play;
some professional players play -- they watch.
They don't
do anything;
they are glued to their chairs
and are just watching everything.
But watching and doing
are totally different.
They feel completely satisfied that they have seen a beautiful film on love.
They are completely satisfied that they have seen a great boxing tournament.
And they themselves
are just onlookers.
It is something of a great calamity that has reduced millions of people to onlookers.
And the people who are
being watched are actors.
They are not in real love,
they are being paid for it.
They are experts in deceiving people,
pretending that
what they are doing
is real.
Their tears are false, their smiles are false,
their love is false,
their anger is false.
What kind of world have we created?
The doers are all acting because they are paid for it,
and the remaining nondoing world is simply watching.
You are here to live.
You are here to dance.
You are here
to experience life.
Others are doing it for you.
On your behalf people are loving, people are playing,
people are
doing all kinds of things.
And what is left for you?
just to watch.
Death will not be able to take much from you -- only your television,
because you don't have anything else.
This is the false ego
that has created a false
life pattern and lifestyle.
Drop everything false.
Be authentic and true;
that is the first step.
And once you are authentic and true,
you will see how beautiful it is.
And that will create the longing to go
beyond,
in search of the ultimate truth,
the final statement
and the final experience,
beyond which nothing else exists.
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