Wall-E

Have you ever seen the movie Wall-E? Well, in the movie, the people have been living on a space ship for hundreds of years. They are very fat and have lost their bone structure from being in space. And they move around the ship in chairs, sitting in their chairs all day with video screens in front of their faces. They each have their own screen. And they become so conditioned and in a trance, so to speak, that they don’t really see what’s going on. They talk to each other from their screens all day long, much like being on Facebook all day. So I kind of liken the human condition to that – the “screen” in front our faces is our ongoing mental “translation” of every aspect of our experiencing – we walk around with this mental screen that continuously comments on everything. And that is what we’re relating to in life, our own mental commentary - we have lost ourselves in the process. And so this is the “screen” to become aware of and to see through. And we can’t do it without pure intention to discover ourselves behind the screen.