Inception, was brilliant! I mean crowds were applauding after the film..
Could there be any more merger between reality and 'inner reality'
For a while I considered it to be exclusively interesting based on its
foundation of focusing so long on how our subconscious mind
deep roots our patterns, or secrets and how our conscious mind
is the aware one, and the differences amongst them.
Then I realized, wait a minute, it's not about the differences,
but the acceptance of both of them actually being one that leads one
to a more fulfilled life.
'Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.' Carl Jung
Which goes to say, that if we accepted ourselves just the way we were, flaws and all. And had no 'secrets,' which really aren't secrets, but on a deeper level they are simply patterns!
Which we probably come on earth as souls to release, with certain lessons, because guess what if we didn't have patterns. I don't know about you, but I would be chilling with Buddha somewhere, and not be in this game of life. It's simple as, simple does. We're born to release patterns, and love seems to be the only way of doing this. Through nurturing self, accepting self, and once the ground work is laid out, the rest is automatic. It just happens, as much as as an individual one gets the same sort of lessons in life, for a particular element of challenge in self.
On another level, if Cobb hadn't hidden Mal so deep in his subconscious, and Mal hadn't hidden her belief either, there would be no film, because there would be no 'secret' and hence nothing to find and bring out into the open. If they each had accepted that that is their shadow side, they would have been fine. Yet that is life, and sometimes it can take lifetimes perhaps to clear a pattern out the way.
And Mr. Fisher, wouldn't have taken so long to discover what really lay in the safe, if only he truly confronted what he was denying within himself. So you see the movie might have included several characters, but at the end of the day, it helped each character confront something about themselves, and strengthen their weaknesses, or empower their strengths or for a couple of people it was just an ordinary experience. It worked in everyones highest interest.
The basic moral being, instead of allowing life to show you what's buried in you, discover it yourself, and you will live a more centered, fulfilled life. Not that this is a piece of cake, but I think consistency helps, as much as showering every day, ensures your hygiene.
D says, 'evil is merely ignorance.' Which I agree with, because once we are aware of something that lays within us, we accept it, and something changes.
Once again change, one of my favorite topics, because so much of it is connected to Change. If we surrendered and didn't mind change, we would be so much more flexible to allowing life to present what is actually within us, and we would confront ourselves and move on. But most of us are so comfortable, that change feels like a misconduct of some sorts.
I loved Inception, as much as I love knowing my patterns so I can love them, as much as I'm beginning to love change for the first time, and not the type that involves a city, or clothes, but rather the one that changes something within. At times it means letting go of old relationships, or old ways of thinking, even old ways of living, but it adds up to something new, which allows me to grow and reach planes I never knew existed and ones I couldn't imagine could arise in my life.
