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So reality is an illusion in the ultimate analysis?

@Gesundheit2 your last two posts contradict each other.

@Tim R so is your position that it's not possible to distinguish between illusion and reality? Therefore we can't know if we are dreaming or awake at any given moment?

Sounds contradicting but anyways....

@Gesundheit2 so you are just living automatically and mechanically.. You don't know why are you alive...you have no idea why you are living is my point. So how can you call that "conscious" survival? What's "conscious" about it? It would be appropriate to call it blind survival.

@Tim R I really don't. Trust me lol.

@Gesundheit2 do you personally have a reason to continue living..? You said: What does this mean?

How so? Aren't these opposites?

Interesting. So are you sayin I should let go of that distinction between illusion and reality?

Nope. That would be knowing reason for staying alive. But since In case you don't have reasons for living.. To Continue to live in this case would be blind attachment to life.

@Gesundheit2 blind survival no matter what is it?

Because I can't stand the fact that I don't know the context of my existence. I don't know whether I'm dreaming or awake right now.. And this uncertainty feels creepy.

What if you have no reason to live? What would you do then?

@tsuki sorry I don't understand your answer. Could you please put it in a different way?

Bump.. So how do I distinguish illusion from reality? Like for example how do I distinguish between dreams and reality? How do I know that I'm not dreaming right now?

Wherever you go, there you are! Thinking about where you were or where you are going all takes place in your head. The concept of time is very useful for making plans, but an unfortunate and untimely laws of physics would put those plans into a different perspective. Folks travel in time not frequently nowadays.

What if pain is as good as pleasure? What if discomfort is as good as comfort? What if failure is as good as success? What if death is as good as birth? What if the rain is as good as the sun? What if the running antelope and the chasing lion are equally good? What if hell is just more heaven in disguise? What if everything is good, and there is no such thing as bad? No evil; Just love? No time; Just eternal perfection? No ugly; Just beauty? No judgement; Just being? What if?

was the present moment when you read this, it was the present moment when you typed it and it is still the present moment. If you think about it, you will realize that there was never a time in your life when it wasn’t the present moment. When I walk down a road, the path ahead of me is not the future, it is also in the present moment and the path behind me is not the past, it is also still in the present. Looking at where I was or where I’m going may be thought of as past or future, but the reality is, we may never escape this present moment.

I would not discard time, it is a very useful concept! I just don’t believe it is possible to travel through a concept

I was thinking that people are always thinking there’s a supreme being greater than us that either birthed or governs our existence. That we live in a universe of multiverses and shit like that. But what if that supreme being or God is actually much more simple than us? What if that supreme being is the most simple thing in existence. Which would mean that it gave rise to everything that exists in a way. That if you break down anything in existence small enough to the most simple form possible you would find “God” or the supreme being. Except it’s much more simple and ironically much less spectacular than us. Having essentially 0 intelligence, awareness, consciousness, etc than us. And that it grew outwards. And evolved into us. From what it is to a string to a quark to a proton to an atom to a molecule all the way up to a universe teeming various different celestial bodies and life. So instead of calling it a supreme being it’s more so of an “original being”

How are you feeling now?

For thousands of years people have been wondering whether there is a beginning and end of time, whether space has any limits, and can matter be divided into smaller and smaller particles indefinitely. But another question is whether causality itself has any limits. If you look at a certain thing or phenomena, for the most part, it is so because of something – it has an underlying cause. And that something is so because of something else – another cause – and so on… Is it possible to arrive at something which is the last cause and there is nothing beyond it? It’s like considering the universe to be finite, but if it is so, what is it enclosed into? And if there are many other universes contained in some superior multiverse, what is it enclosed into and so on… Can something be just by itself and have nothing that caused it, itself being its own cause? And if causality is infinite could we ever comprehend it because it would take a mind with an infinite conceptual ability, whereas our minds are, apparently, limited in their conceptual ability – can conceptual and logical causality be infinite? Is God the ultimate cause of an infinite causality? – this statement seems to be paradoxical. If there are rules and laws of things, where did they come from, do they have superior laws and so on?

It's too good to be true isn't it?

Sure. I don't disagree with that.

They do and they don't at the same time. Since there is no difference between difference and not different. Kinda like a snake eating it's own tail.