GRASPING UNITY

AS DIFFICULT AS “ETERNAL NOW”

It is probably ridiculous I should begin to address this topic at 12:30 AM, or at any time, for that matter. I don’t think I can go to sleep without at least beginning on it.

The starting point is to address what the enlightened one’s have told us that intellectually I can admit makes some sense, but emotionally is far out of my experience. There, be forewarned, is my problem. I presume to speak to a subject I do not grasp, have not experienced, and know by sensible hearsay only.

“They” tell us that Rip Parker is not a male human, or a person except in the role titled “Rip Parker”. “Rip” is merely the role currently assigned to an actor who is not Rip when off stage. In fact, there is no “me” or “I” or ‘Rip” beyond the role in this drama.

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Shakespeare has Jaques tell us in his play, oddly titled, “As You Like It”,

“All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts ….”

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This is the essence of what I presume to address. Elighentened people tell us, and I’ll not presume to list them at this time, that this life is indeed a drama, and we are assigned roles to play. We are normally forgetful of just who the offstage actor really is playing our part.