I’m watching a drama unfold before me, totally immersed in the drama my guarded emotions aren’t helping. All of a sudden a light turns on and I see my predicament. I’m in a theater, it’s just a movie, that drama doesn’t matter at all, it has nothing to do with me or my real situation, I have been taken for a ride in a false drama. Thank God it wasn’t real or a big deal to begin with.

The Soul is sitting in the theater of life watching the show. Completely absorbed in the continual drama between the good and the bad, I am totally hooked on the drama unfolding before me until the light turns on and the images disappear, it’s just images on the screen, I was tricked. I know now I was caught up in an illusion.

This is enlightenment. This is the reason why the great ones call life an illusion.

Part of the original story : old wise man asked who you are and got a long answer

Oh no you’re not, I know better than that, said the venerable old man, you never left your theater seat. What! What are you talking about? Have you lost your mind silly old man? No! He said, You’re the one that lost your mind, because you don’t know where your seat is, you’re lost in the drama. When you take control by realizing where your seat actually is, you’ll start talking like this as well. Really, tell me more replied the visitor . Well, I found out that we don’t really die and we were never born, as a matter of fact I never left my seat and went anywhere, it was all a theatrical play, I thought I was playing a staring role. Then I found out the joke is on me, the light turned on and the show ended, then I saw the gravity of my mistake. I realized I didn’t have a part in the show after all, just thought I had. Now, I help others in finding that light switch, so they can see their position in the theater of reality.

That’s strange, tell me more?

I was making a grave error in believing that I was a fragile human, when I was Eternal and indestructible. Believe in me and what I say and don’t look back, keep searching for the eternal seat until you find it, and see for yourself, what all the great ones saw, you won’t be disappointed. Because in knowing your true position, you find your anchor in stability on the open seas of life, a most valuable asset, for you’ll never be lost again. Look within and away from the theatrical world of images and energy, you’ll find yourself sitting in the pure still sea of Eternity.

This was all so new to me, I was taken back by the statement, but I was also very curious, crazy or not he had me hook, line and sinker. What is the theater? And, how do I find the switch to turn on the light?

The theater is the grand arena of Eternal space where our Soul is permanently stationed, you’ll find the switch after fumbling around in the dark for some time. But when you do, you will see the source of all, and realize this play was an illusion, which you had bought into, with a ticket of birth. You never find out where the switch is, or how you turn it on, but by following a simple formula, detaching yourself from the play mentally, you start the search for the switch, and eventually the theater will be reveled. You’re in essence moving away from the foreground of sensual involvement in the play, to the background darkness of the theater, you stay until the light turns on. So, sit back in your seat and know your seat is still, energyless, feelingless, and not perceivable, and what you perceive is the show and not you. When you’re able to look away from the show long enough, the show ends and the theater is visible. Your relentless noninvolvement in the show switches on the original Light in the theater, in Absolute space, your eternal home. But remember, when you’re caught up in the show you’re not looking for the switch.