Who are we? and the four stages

Just who are we truly behind the masks that each of us wear? Is there a true self? What are the four stages?

We are both writers and actors of ebb and flow. Our true selves are hidden behind all of which we manifest. Possessions, status, ego; these are all gained from the energy of our efforts; a result of an applied force. Everything in life, of which we would not normally bring about, is who we truly are; everything else is all an act. 

The world is one big stage. When questioned who you are behind all the glamour, the fame, the misfortune, the status, the possessions, the lies, the charm, the wit…what is your response?

The answer is your true self. A form, that has yet to take form, though the moment the form begins to take just that; to laugh, to scream, to leap, to fall, to create, to destroy, to gain, to lose… a character is born and will die as such. The true self all the while goes unnoticed, though grows heavy donning layer upon layer of clothes it neither wanted nor needed.

Pleasure is another layer of cloth, made up of several colours, each colour brighter than the next; demanding and denying all it sees, all it hears, all it desires and all it ignores….all the while the true self sits and watches in a state of silence. The true self, before the storm hit, is muffled by the clothes that pile up. So who are we truly?

Look to where there is no clothes,(not referring to ancient Greece) no stage of blinding lights, look into the depths of the oceans of ebb and flow, look on without judging eyes and search with your pure eyes, pull away from your idols and reclaim the path you originally walked on and right there you stand.

Stage 1 -  Formless

-        No words, no physical vessel to prove its presence. The state of formless is much like the wind; we cannot see it but without a doubt we know it is there.

Stage 2 - A form that has yet to take form

-        Exists only for a split second before the body draws it first breath. As the baby grows it attaches itself to the desire of movement, and restlessness; as the baby grows older still, the desire for attention and love.

Stage 3 - The hidden form (life)

-        With so many diverse distractions which are very easily obtainable in today’s world, it is equally easy to lose ourselves within it all. Other people’s influences, ideas, possessions and beliefs become our own. If one person were to exist purely alone from birth on a planet without distractions, without politics, without religion, without a language to speak, without the world as we know it, with nothing but the ground below their feet and the sky above their head what would be the natural instinct?

 

The true self would be not to question for there would be no language to do so, only to watch and breath, to eat, to sleep, to wake, to be at one with everything. Now if that person living all alone on that quiet planet began to gather grains of sand and let those grains seep through his hands, the true self would begin to explore, gather a sense of curiosity, and recall the reactions of the actions, gathering wisdom in the process; wisdom perhaps the purest language of all.

Stage 4 - Formless with a state of former form (death)

-        Death gives life to a state of form that is formless, though carries with it a former form, a history. The original state of being formless, can only come into existence once, because to be formless with a state of former form, known as death, is to have completed the four stages of which are:  of nothing, of nothing drawn to something, of something else, then onto nothing, of which is something; for a loss of everything including form, is something in its self.