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an idea for a film based on the possible ramifications of meeting yourself...a metaphysical romance comparing a western/narcissistic understanding of such an event with an asian/buddhist attitude...

exploring the relation between these quotes...

"well, if you have no mind, you have the right mind. and its not so much that there is no mind as that there is no preconceived concept, no defining mind, nothing there to know what mind is. it still works, though. it's still functioning. its just that the mind thats fuctioning is no longer obtruding on its own self. then if you do something extraordinary, someone may ask "howd you do that?" and youll say "howd i do what? whatd i do?" theyll want you to explain, but youll know that theres a different kind of monster youd be creating; youd be using your mind to create "yourself" when in fact you are yourself without having to do anything at all. its like the mirror refleceting the mirror: you see an infinite number of images, but theres really only one - and its not in any mirror! thatas what weve been doing with our mind. we dont really know the true state of being because weve been reflecting upon reflections that are reflections of other reflections. when we can remove all of those, therell be nothing but what is real." vernon kitabu turner

"he found the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. materlinck says: if socrates leaves his house today he will find the sage seated on his doorstep. if judas goes forth tonight it is to judas his steps will tend. every life is many days, day after day. we walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. but always meeting ourselves." stephen dedalus/james joyce, ulysses, p.273

"one day i wiped out all the notions from my mind. i gave up all desire. i discarded all the words with which i though and stayed in quietude. i felt a little queer - as if i were being carried into something, or as if i were touching some power unknown to me...and ztt! i entered. i lost the boundary of my physical body. i had my skin, of course, but i felt i was standing in the center of the cosmos. i spoke, but my words had lost their meaning. i saw people coming towards me, but all were the same man. all were myself! i had never known this world. i had believed that i was created, but now i must change my opinioin: i was never created; i was the cosmos; no individual mr. sasaki existed." sokei-an sasaki, the transcendtal world, zen notes, vol.1 no.5

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opening scene, a man and a woman in separate places getting themselves ready to go out for the evening - as seen reflected in their mirrors...doing make-up, trying on different combinations of clothes, done in a rigid systematised way, some kind of camera/sound effects sequence like darren aronofsky in pi/requiem for a dream...tie>adjustment>swipe chin "ugh". (soundtrack, i`ll be your mirror by the velvet underground).

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wtf

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also, exploring the psychological phenomenon of implicit egotism...