Life Is But a Dream...

 

Ran across this brief Buddhist explanation of our illusory view of the world and thought you might find it worth the quick read.

BUDDHA BODI -"The world as seen by discrimination is like seeing one's own image reflected in a mirror, or one's shadow, or the moon reflected in water, or an echo heard in a valley." ~The Buddha

The Buddha often likens the world to an illusion, a mirage, a magic trick, a bubble, a reflection, but what is the message that the Buddha is conveying when he does so? Clearly the Buddha is challenging our very base conceptions, but is it only meant to make us think, or is there some logic behind his claims? Is the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the air we breathe, the people we love all not real? For me the answer is yes, but with an asterisk. 

First, there are some aspects of the world we just know that is real and there are some aspects of the world we just know that is not real. The irony is that the aspects that we know is real, is in fact an illusion, and the part that we believe is impossible, is in fact real. For example, we think our selves, our lives, the things we see and touch are real, but in fact those are the mirages, whereas the invisible things like karma are real...

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