Drama or Dharma?

Drama keeps us out of the moment. There are two realities, the mind of drama, and the heart of being present.

A friend shared, Drama or Dharma, you decide. They are mutually exclusive, yet realizing both gives balance to our life.

We are conditioned to our mind of drama, our serious timeline story. The timeless play we knew as children has passed, and now our life is about time— what has happened, what can happen, what we want to happen. We often feel tense, fear, and stress.

Our dramas are powered by our repressed emotions from our past hurtful dramas. With awareness, we can observe the power of these repressions when we react. Our reactions clearly demonstrate our dramas; a situation, a word, a look on someone’s face immediately brings up hidden anger, sadness, or fears.

Meditation is how we observe and bring consciousness to this mind of drama we are attached to and obsessed with. We believe how we think and who we are is our life, and we believe our dramas are real. It is only when the plot thickens, when the climax of the drama is intense suffering, leading to thoughts of suicide, that we ever consider stepping out of it, or waking up from it.

We resist meditation, because until we are desperate, we don’t want to observe the truth of how we are lost in drama. When we begin to doubt our thinking, question what we have always believed, wonder who we are—we enter a time and place of not knowing anything. This freedom of the mind is a blessed experience. Big changes, however, can be frightening, we may want to return to what we know. Awakening from our mind can be disorienting for a time. The best advice is to simply be with how you feel and breathe into your heart.