What is not..

If you go to see a movie, do you think it’s real? No, -you know it’s a movie, an illusion. You may have moments of identification, but they are just moments. Overall, you understand you are in a theatre, and that what’s going on is an illusion. If you’d never been outside the movie theatre, then you would view what was going on as real, but not if you ever stepped outside and the mind noticed the difference. You’ve stepped outside the movie theatre, but your mind still has the story of you in it. The story doesn’t go just because it’s fiction. But because it’s seen to be fiction, its ability to trap is fatally weakened.

So stay on it, get real with it, hit it, dig into it—if it’s real it can take it. It’s just seeing what is not there. Any time you have an emotion or a feeling, look behind it. What is there? Exactly—nothing. Uniqueness of the embodiment of life is real. But self? Something owning life? A central control, a manager?—no. And don’t take my word for it—don’t fall into that trap. Instead, investigate.

Is this true?