It’s like watching a movie. It is a wonderful experience, unless we forget that it’s just a movie. But when we realize it is an illusion brought forth by the projector and the screen, then we can truly enjoy it, knowing we’re safe and knowing that nothing can hurt our true selves, that light of consciousness within us. If we look deeply into the nature of the universe, what we…
If you can see it, feel it, hear it or think it, it is an illusion. So yes, kindness and cruelty are both illusions. Pain and pleasure exist in our mind and nowhere else. But that doesn’t mean they’re both meaningless. “Illusion” does not mean we dishonor the illusion. We don’t have to ignore it nor neglect it. We also don’t have to get attached to it. Illusion simply means we…
Because we have clocks everywhere — our phones, microwaves, TVs, cars, etc… — we live in a mindset of time. I’ve seen people in the woods and for the first time in their lives they’ve actually not known the time. At first, they say, “I wonder what time it is.” Then later, “What time is it? Should we eat?”Soon they realize that their body will tell them when they’re hungry…
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