/ THE OBSERVER /

"There is no effort involved in putting aside the observer"

 

  • Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

     

    "So, can you observe yourself in the mirror, not as an observer but only the thing that is being observed, without the observer?"

     

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

     

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

     

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

     

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

     

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

     

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

     

    "This is very important to understand, because as long as there is a division between the observer and the observed – you understand? there must be conflict, there must be effort, there must be a sense of either conquering it, suppressing it, or avoiding it"

     

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

     

    "You are nobody – you follow? – this whole division, which is the corridor of opposites"

     

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

     

    "So, it is absolutely necessary to understand that there is only observation, not the observer trying to control the observation, that which is observed"

     

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

     

    "There is no mirror, you are watching yourself, but, for the moment, we invent the mirror. Who is the observer?"

     

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

     

     

    "The whole observation is the movement of the past. I observe a Frenchman – because I have been told he’s a Frenchman – the conditioning, the past, knowledge. So, this whole movement of observation, is born from the past. Right? So the observer, in essence, is the past"

     

     

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    "The observer is the past– past memories, past experiences, past knowledge. With the past, he’s observing himself in the mirror. Right? So, you have created a division between what you see now and what has been. So, there is a division between the observer and the observed"

     


     

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

     

    "The observer is the past, so the past is always dividing"

     

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask

    Lectures d'Arxiu - The Ceremonial Mask


     

     

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