If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

Question

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Answer 1

No stage, no audience...'we' exist in the realm of hallucination! Nothing is lost, but the 'big joke' finds only a few laughing!!

By the way...I tried to invite you as a 360 friend...I'm still wandering around in that labyrinth! =D

Answer 2

front row center is where the active life participants sit. The people who are afraid to live are hiding in the balcony. The bullies of this world are shouting from the middle of the first level and are always having to get up and go to the bathroom and they step on the toes of the aisle sitters , who are the ones who want to watch but don't want to play.

At the end of the show, everyone goes home to the same place and sleeps in a dark warm room until the next show. If and when there will ever be another performance is the question that all the theater goers argue about during the break half way through at the popcorn line.

Blessings,!
Lady Morgana )0(

Answer 3

We are both audience & actor, in a way. It's going to be a little difficult to explain, but I am really impressed with your question, it shows you are deeply questioning what you see. The sign of a true mystic. {hope that was not an insult, he. he}. We are are awareness that projects a picture. A good analogy is we are dreaming, & what we see as the world is our dream. It is a little simplistic but we get into a area where words will fail us. We have been projecting this picture or having this dream for so long we have forgotten that it is just a projection, & we have come to believe it is real & that we are what we project or dream. This is why Mystics practice being an observer, to begin to give them some emotional distance from the apparent day to day stuff that emotionally jerks their head from one place to another, and to begin to "lucid dream" here. As we practice being an observer & look at the projection long enough we begin to see little flaws & cracks, we learn to read between the lines & see beyond the obvious. The stage is not real, the only real thing here is the dreamer, us. Another way of looking at it is we are one thing, split into a billion peices, all seeing & experiencing the "play" from every convievable angle at the same time. When we wake up, as the dream fades & we come to remember who we really are, our reaction most likely will be like waking from a night time nightmare, "Thank God that was not real", & we will once again get on with our real lives, which we really never left. We are taking a nap, in analogy of course. I know this seems vague, thanks again for a outstanding question. (((HUGG)))

Answer 4

We are both the actors and the audience. It's called observing the thinker.....the ego is the stage and the audience is the true self....I asked this question too a while back.

Guess you & I are on the same page.

(((HUG)))

Answer 5

It's an Audience participation kind of play. We ALL have bit parts and walk ons, and then we all get to sit and watch the others do their thing too.

BB,
Raji the Greenwitch

Answer 6

Didn't you here? They built a big old stadium down a few solar systems for a ll the Gods of the world to sit back and enjoy.

Answer 7

I guess it's a case of audience participation - we're all up there on the stage! (Shades of the Rocky Horror Picture Show!).

Answer 8

Behind your eyeballs.

When the quote was made, people could pay to sit on the stage. What I wonder is who is the director, and what act are we in?

Answer 9

In the microcosm of our mind.

And sometimes i enjoy the way somebody's playing his role so much so that i forget i'm also a player!

Very intelligent question; never thought of it before.

Answer 10

On my lap?(sorry I'm in a weird frame of mind at present - got grandchildren here so behaving a bit childishly myself! If you can't beat 'em ...)