Office by Alex Penny
where i go?
Day 18 complete.
Today I went to a halloween event we helped promote in Hollywood. I was dressed in a robot box costume with various computer parts attached and blinking lights. People loved it, coming up to take their picture with me and tell me it was their favorite costume of the night.
But they couldn’t see me inside. They were talking to a box with feet sticking out the bottom. It’s interesting how that works. My only communication back was to jump up and down or swing side to side or bump into them. It was fun and freeing. Its nice to limit things sometimes.
On the way home we listened to Alice in Chains “Man in the Box.” It was apropos, but not one of my favorite songs. It did make me think of a favorite though, Arcade Fire’s “My Body Is A Cage.”
I used to feel that way sometimes. I wanted to become a robot to get away from my body and unpleasant things like emotions and feelings. I realize now there is no escape from the body. There is no me without my body. The mind and the body are one. Vipassana has taught me this on an experiential level, but recent science has begun to prove the same truths. The mind is not a disembodied spirit trapped inside the body. The mind and consciousness is a full range experience of the entire system in relationship to the environment. The truth is so simple and inescapable. The cage is in fact, only in our minds.
p.s. this video is wonderful:
