King Lear and the One

"I want to clarify the John Smith and King Lear metaphor. Are King Lear and John Smith (the actor who plays Lear) ultimately made of the One? Rupert says: ‘John Smith, in this analogy, is the One – he represents infinite being. King Lear hasn’t really emerged through John Smith; he is John Smith, albeit with a layer of clothes and thoughts and actions. King Lear is just a temporary limitation of John Smith, just as we are a temporary limitation of the infinite. You, Joan, are the one being – the only being there is. But what you are as a person is a mixture: your real self is the One, but you’re also clothed in thoughts and perceptions. This amalgamation of infinite being plus thoughts and perceptions makes the separate self. The selfness of the separate self comes from infinite being; the separateness is derived from thought and perception. They’re amalgamated together.’"

From event 21 - 28 November, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at The Vedanta, 21–28 November 2025

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