What if it was true?

What if the world is what it is just because you believe it is that way? We may not actually be in little pods being tended by super-intelligent machines, but are we trapped in the pods of our own thoughts? When you look at something what is it that recognizes what the thing is and how it is used. It’s your mind. That’s what says “This is a flower” or “That is a table”. Then your mind has a vast amount of associations about what “flower” is and what “table” is. But what if those associations are wrong? What if they have simply been programmed into you by an out-of-control culture? What if the “bad guys” are really not so bad after all. Thought Forms exist in the mind and the Heart Sutra reminds us…

What is seen does not differ from what is empty, nor does what is empty differ from what is seen. What is seen is empty; what is empty is seen.

Well, we can look for some understanding from the writings of the Dali Lama. Our senses deceive us and draw us into negative attachments, and we are deceived by the process of thought, which organizes everything that we perceive. And the real disparity is between how we perceive ourselves and how we really are. We hurt ourselves because we have exaggerated ideas of ourself, of others, and of things. With these exaggerations, our senses draw us into negative attachments. So, we regard that big screen TV or Mercedes as actually important to our sense of Self. The problem is that tacit acceptance of things as the way the seem is ignorance, which is an active mistaking of the fundamental nature of people and things.

And the real puzzlement is that even though the world is all illusion it still hurts when you hit your thumb with a hammer. Go figure? The world is as it is whether we misperceive it or not. If it seems to change as we change our perception then it is not the world changing, but us. So, it isn’t the world that is the illusion, but, instead, we are the illusions.

That means that as you use love and insight to understand your true nature you will gradually change YOUR world and begin to change it more.

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