The question might sound strange to us, but taken to its end, we are bound to find something fascinating.

If you and I were to go on a walk, and we looked around, and I asked you this question, where would you find drama?

You and I know a tree has no drama, drama doesn't live in stones, not in rivers, nor in the rain. We wouldn't be able to find it in birds, whales, or in any material we could find. Even if we were to look at our own body and go deep into every corner of it, we wouldn't find drama there either.

Yet, all of us experience drama and it seems to be all around us.

Something unwanted happened... "Oh, how bad!"

It's raining and we say, "I hate the rain."

The sun is shining and we say, "I love the great weather.

"See, when we take the question, "Where does drama live?" and we really look, we will find that drama doesn’t exist outside of language. Drama is a purely linguistic phenomenon. It is created in language and experienced as we speak about drama.

Without language, there is no drama.

Most of us think that when we say things like bad, good, better, or worse, because of X or Y, I feel... that we are describing what is. But that's not so.

What we actually do is bring something into existence that without our speaking or thinking, simply wouldn’t exist.

Problems? Are in language.

Failure? Language.

Good? Language.

Bad? Language.

Love? Language.

Hate? Language.

If we want to let go of the dramas in our lives, we need to restore the distinction between language and what is. In what is, there is never drama. In what is, there is simply what is: death is, life is, pain is.

We don't suffer these things but what we make of them in our use of language.

If you want to be free of drama, see where drama occurs.

That is your access to a life beyond drama, a life that deals with what is.