Re: Devas and the Gods
--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> <snip>
> > > >
> > > > TM teachers are told what they should be
> > > > feeling during various steps of the puja, I understand. /shrug.
> > >
> > > Being instructed in what to feel makes absolutely
> > > no sense to me, I have to say, in any context.
> >
> > Never done any acting, have you? Most actors don't just
> > assume an expression.
>
> Did quite a bit of it in my younger days (not
> professionally). That's the "Method" school of
> acting, and a minority of actors use it (albeit
> some very, very good ones). The technique is
> to re-experience emotions they themselves have
> felt in the past. It's more complicated than
> it sounds and takes a lot of training. Plus
> which, it's in the context of portraying a
> character who is feeling those emotions.
>
> It didn't appeal to me at all as an acting
> technique, so I never studied it or used it.
>
> I could certainly *act the part* of a person
> feeling deep devotion, but it wouldn't be what
> I would call sincere. And I've have to act
> the part of a person who was feeling deep
> devotion but not making a big of show of it
> for an audience.
I understand your points.
I simple suggest that the mechnics of puja are "different",
And quite special.
Its a profound thing, IMO.
Regardless of the path to get there.
Shakti manifest.
S
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