10-02-2015, 02:32 AM
(10-01-2015, 07:05 PM)anagogy Wrote: Maybe it will seem horrific to you, and perhaps I will seem disconnected from what you feel is absolute rock hard reality, but I know in my heart of hearts, without a shadow of a doubt, that all is an illusion. A play in consciousness. In the same way that when I watch a dramatic movie I can get myself emotionally frantic, and upset, by identifying with the hurts and pains and dramas of the characters in the movie, or I can choose to remain detached by understanding that they are simply actors playing roles, and the unfolding drama was just an impression, on the mind, deliberately concocted to elicit an emotional reaction. If it still does, there is no wrong in it, it just means you are still using the catalyst.
I'm sure you will probably interpret this to mean my heart is closed, but I don't really see it that way. I prefer to think of it as not confusing the forest for the trees, a state of distilled love, and looking at things from a broader perspective. I'm a character in the movie too, playing a role. I have just stopped forgetting that is precisely what I am doing.
I'm not sure why there are those who dismiss this world as nothing but illusion. But if that's all this is, then it would follow that everything is an illusion, and a case could be made for that. But illusion, no illusion, reality, unreal...what does it matter? It is something, and we are here.
May I ask if you have seen anyone close to you suffer and die?