You must cultivate the attitude of an observer.  You are pure energy and consciousness,  manifesting here in a physical plane.

 

 

Become an observer

 

Think of all that you see, all the interactions, the altercations, the business, all the movement and the changing, as a puppet show. The world is putting on a puppet show for you.

 

 

The clumsy, wooden puppets declaim loudly, lack grace, fall down, and refuse to do their master’s bidding. Their wires are visible, their motivations transparent.

 

 

Still, you watch the show. You willingly suspend disbelief for a while, pretend not to see the artifice and enter into their little world. You want to see what animates them, what pulls their strings.  As an observer,  you witness their emotions and consider their reality. You wish them well and want to see them happy.

 

At the end of a puppet show, the observer forgets about the small world of the puppets and re-enters the larger physical world in which he lives and moves and has his being. Compared to the puppet world, his is more flowing, subtle and colorful.

 

 

And so it is with your eternal Self observing the puppet show of physical bodies inhabited by egos. They strut about with importance, worry about how they are seen, fight, and hit each other with truncheons, nightsticks and whatever else they can get. They get caught up in mighty dramas.

 

 

But at the end of their day, their story is told, their use is over, and the eternal You returns to a world inconceivably larger, more flowing, beautiful, colorful and subtle than any the puppets could imagine.

 

 For in and out, above, about, below,

“Tis nothing but a magic Shadow Show

Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun

Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam