Guest guest Posted June 3, 2002 Report Share Posted June 3, 2002 Last night I rented a new DVD called "Waking Life" Waking Life is a movie that explores the nature of dream and reality. I had heard it described to me as a "Jungian" movie but it isn't that. It is a NonDual movie. It pushes and pushes towards the dissolving of boundaries. At one point the lead character - who is dreaming - is in a theater, watching a movie in which the two characters discuss the nature of film and reality and then turn into clouds! Explore the website here: http://www.wakinglifemovie.com/ The question the main character pursues throughout the movie is, "How can I wake up?" He discovers, you see, that he is in a dream and every time he wakes up he is dreaming that he woke up. Oh yes, this film is an animated movie. Watching the sheer beauty of the animation always gives us something wonderful to look at and gives the film maker a great deal of creative license to illustrate the ideas the characters are presenting. The film was shot on a digital video camera, then animators converted every frame to animation, preserving the sound track but having a great deal of fun with the images themselves. At the end, the main character encounters a man playing pinball who, it turns out, is the director of the film. The director starts to tell a story from the life of P.K. Dick and then the director says, "Well, if you really want to wake up, why don't you?" At which point the hero find himself outside his childhood home where he slowly, gently lifts into the sky and floats off, higher and higher. Waking Life is a movie that stays with you. This morning I woke up and lay in bed for a while. It was Monday. I thought of all I had to do: get up, wash face, take vitamins, make coffee, defrost bagel, go downstairs and get paper, eat breakfast and read paper, shower, shave, get dressed, and meet the workday. It seemed infinitely wearisome. But then I finally did get up and the day started to unreel on its own accord. Surprises kept happening. I had cereal instead of a bagel. I did last night's dishes before getting the paper. I found time to do a bit of yoga to stretch my aching back. In other words, the day unreeled just like a dream, beyond volition. This is waking life. Things just keep happening. There is no need to keep up an illusion of control, nor is there a need to keep up an illusion that it is happening to anyone in particular. Yes, you continue to feel emotions and experience things like pain and pleasure, loneliness and happiness, backaches and heartaches, but these are just happening too and will keep on unreeling with everything else. If you watch long enough they all turn into clouds in the end. --David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2002 Report Share Posted June 4, 2002 Cool movie. Must put it on my "must see list." Thanks for the tip. Blessings, Zenbob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2002 Report Share Posted June 4, 2002 , David Hodges <dhodges@o...> wrote: > Last night I rented a new DVD called "Waking Life" Waking Life is a movie > that explores the nature of dream and reality. I had heard it described to > me as a "Jungian" movie but it isn't that. It is a NonDual movie. It pushes > and pushes towards the dissolving of boundaries. [snip] The film is artistically luscious and spiritually/metaphysically hefty and challenging, imho. Thanks CJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 5, 2002 Report Share Posted June 5, 2002 --- <<<<< never heard of it, but want to see it, should it be at the local video rental? james In , "d_agenda2000" <d_agenda2000> wrote: > , David Hodges <dhodges@o...> wrote: > > Last night I rented a new DVD called "Waking Life" Waking Life is a > movie > > that explores the nature of dream and reality. I had heard it > described to > > me as a "Jungian" movie but it isn't that. It is a NonDual movie. > It pushes > > and pushes towards the dissolving of boundaries. > > [snip] > > The film is artistically luscious and spiritually/metaphysically > hefty and challenging, imho. Thanks > > > CJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 5, 2002 Report Share Posted June 5, 2002 Right, "Waking Life" just came out on video and DVD so it should be available at rental places. Unless it is too offbeat for the likes of mainstreamers like Blockbuster. David At 12:24 PM 6/5/2002 +0000, you wrote: --- <<<<< never heard of it, but want to see it, should it be at the local video rental? james In , "d_agenda2000" <d_agenda2000> wrote: > , David Hodges <dhodges@o...> wrote: > > Last night I rented a new DVD called "Waking Life" Waking Life is a > movie > > that explores the nature of dream and reality. I had heard it > described to > > me as a "Jungian" movie but it isn't that. It is a NonDual movie. > It pushes > > and pushes towards the dissolving of boundaries. > > [snip] > > The film is artistically luscious and spiritually/metaphysically > hefty and challenging, imho. Thanks > > > CJ /join All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a. Your use of is subject to the Terms of Service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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