Playing the Perfect Role

I greet all beings existing in this here and now with love and care. Let this day foster awakening for all mankind.

In this experience we call living we each have a role to play in the total performance of life. The performance or dance that we each express is what we call our personalities. These personalities are shaped by our environment, family, friends, culture and all of the experiences we have growing up. The dance or play of personalities is the way we learn about ourselves as well as the world around us. These roles that we adopt and become can and will change constantly, depending on what is happening right here and right now. We call these right here and right now moments, experience. We are constantly being shaped by our experience, or are we? Are we being shaped by our experiences? Or are we shaping experience by our being? This is a self reflective question that only you can answer, and because of the beautiful nature of existence any answer you give will be the correct one and will be your starting point of self inquiry.

The sustenance of our existence right here and right now is our environment; through environment we are able to experience life here on planet Earth. Without a suitable environment we would not be able to live in these bodies, which are really interpreters of our environment through the functions of the senses. We need our senses to be able to see a bright sunrise or feel the warm breeze on a cool autumn day. There is a strange interconnectedness of the senses and the environment. If you took one of those factors out of the equation, you would end up with a half problem with no knowable answer. In math you need two variables or two different equations to solve. In the same way you need both the senses and the objects in order to have the experience, without them you would not know what you are experiencing. When we look at the problem of nature verses nurture through the lens of playing the perfect role, both nature and nurture are intertwined to give us the experience of life, both spinning round and round as we all move our hips to the beat.

Playing the perfect role in life is all about Being who you are right now. That may sound off because right now you may be experiencing a not so ideal situation or hardship, but you will know yourself through the act of experiencing that situation or hardship. The point is not to escape to some other place over there because as my mother in-law says “wherever you go, there you are.” The point of playing the perfect role is to free yourself from the demands of the mind and the hardships of expectation and results. We are all right where we need to be no matter where that is. The goal (I don’t use the word goal as meaning something that is to be obtained, rather something that has to be realized and recognized) of life is not to do any one thing in particular but to experience all things in context. The context of life is what we call the background of life or the stage of life. This grand performance is being shown throughout the entire cosmos for all of life to see. We are the actors in that performance and you were casted to play the perfect role that will bring all of the cheers and excitement of a great show.

It doesn’t matter the role or character that you played yesterday, you will always come to a place where you can refine and readjust your lines. You can yell “cut” and exit the stage searching out your new role to play in this dance. You find the script and review it to yourself over and over making sure you have all the lines memorized. The funny thing about life is while you are studying your lines the stage shifts under your feet and all you hear is “action” and because you are the greatest actor in the universe you get caught up in your new role, forgetting about your old role. We are the new roles right here and right now. We are trying to figure out who is our original character and what is this stage we call life. Be the best you, you can be. See the limits of your vision as just a line waiting to be written in this role you call your life. The biggest secret of all is, YOU are the writer of this screenplay as well as the director and the actor. You are it, now there is just one thing to say………. ACTION!

Dwayne Chamble