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As the family watches episode 5, The Empire Strikes Back, I am once again, out of the room, unable to handle the drama... Never was able to - I Dream of Jeanie, I love Lucy, even Bewitched at times. I had such difficulty handling the trouble these characters would get their family into, the drama they created, the seemingly insurmountable odds they were up against. Star Wars takes that all to a new level! My kids crack up because I had to leave, physically leave my seat during Big Hero Six!
Well, that is my journey to figure out - in the mean time, throughout the film, little pearls of galactic wisdom are tossed to the audience like asteroids spinning into our stratosphere. Do they land and implode, explode or fix themselves into the fabric of our galactic selves in recognition of their Truth?
On Mindfulness:A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph! Adventure. Heh! Excitement. Heh! A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless!
On Meditation:Luke: But how am I to know the good side from the bad? Yoda: You will know... when you are calm, at peace, passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, NEVER for attack.
On life as a reflection of our self-perceptions:Luke: I feel cold. Death. Yoda: [points to a cave opening beneath a large tree] That place... is strong with the dark side of the Force. A domain of evil it is. In you must go. Luke: What's in there? Yoda: Only what you take with you.
Over and over entertainment gives us clues, sparks our remembrance of who we are and how we are to support ourselves in this "otherworldly" human journey as spiritual beings in a time-space reality that enforces everything that we are not such that we get to a point where we must-
Yoda: You must unlearn what you have learned.
