So Said Surya

Two thoughts from Surya: 

Every principle is violent
First principle is to be hundreds of bodies

In psychiatry, there is a term 'persona'. As T S Eliot put it, all the time you 'prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet'. We play all sorts of roles in a single day.

However, if we lack flexibility in shifting from role to role, there can be issues. A policeman who continues to be a policeman at home can be quite upsetting. A husband-wife relationship can stagnate if the partners do not 'play' different roles to each other. Parents often keep on playing parent even when the child is fully adult.

Surya spoke of practicing being different 'selves'. As Shakespeare wrote:

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

Surya also mentioned that Ramakrishna used the concept of Abhinaya.

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YOU ARE WHAT YOU EXPRESS

You have relatively little control over what comes into you through your senses or mind. But you can more easily train to make your body express your aim in life.

If you seek friends and honest and truthful people you are likely to be frustrated. But you can train your body to express friendliness, honesty, truth and compassion to the best of your body’s ability at the given time.

In training the body, the concept of Abhinaya or acting is a helpful one. An accomplished actor may be plagued by many personal worries. But when he is on stage acting the part of a Buddha he is able to organise his bodily resources to express tranquility. If the vibration of the proper emotion to be expressed is kept in view the rest of the body begins to fall in line. In the beginning it is only possible that your voluntary musculature obeys you. Gradually the so-called autonomic functions fall into place to their best ability.

Bhava Samadhi

Remember what you want to become and BE, That.

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