Here in our seat, perception is the theatre screen. In this image, the character ‘X’Tzu’ from ‘11:11 El Luchador Gauntlet’ is waiting for the theater doors to open.
The screen of duality is entertaining, as long as we know that’s what it is.
If we’re experiencing, any-thing, with any sense, or having any sensation, then we are wearing the ‘hat of mind’ and the ‘glasses of perception’. In this place,‘Courage’ is sacrificing your suspension of disbelief to save the integrity of a movie, and the act of ‘selflessness’ knowing you’re also an observer in imaginations theater.
*see ‘Considerations’ below
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if your ‘face’ is showing, nor if it’s remembered. For every face that’s hidden by time is also a mask of transient value. Our ‘hats, glasses, faces’ are mere eddies of light, windows into experiences where the Absolute-self parties in-ten-sely.
Considerations
The ‘small-self’ is also an observer. From this vantage (no right or wrong) we sometimes perceive that we have more choice than what our original agreement provided.
'we' can influence the perception and state of the segregated transient soul. However, knowing the glory AND limitations of choice also is emancipating. In that 'playground vantage’ of having one 'foot in the relative (where mutually arising dualistic perceptions arise) and one foot out (Absolute) we choose to influence or not, persuade or not, convince or not. Sometimes we just do for doings sake. All out of joy we express, with no requirement for reciprocation or acknowledgement.