Harmless Fantasy, or Actual Reality? Your Brain can't tell the Difference!
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Excellent wake-up post. I've often said that there is no such thing as fiction. If you imagine it, it is happening in your universe. That is why some religions state that sinning is not only the actual act, but the imagination of that act. That is why "coveting" is a sin.
Classic meditation is the letting go of imagination. If you follow the breath instead of ruminate, your mind calms and then actually disappears. It's not gone. It's just put away until you need it again.
Crossing that threshold is not the end to it, though, only the beginning, the awakening to reality. TV, internet, books, movies, blogs, cell phones are all roadblocks on this path. They not only promote the fictive dream state, they enhance it, promote it and supplant it. These are the "blue pills" of our culture, the ones we willingly take that keep us asleep and dreaming. Thank you for this red pill, @valued-customter.
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Socrates:An unexamined life is not worth living.Dreaming is virtual reality of sorts...
Agreed.
There is a short Buddhist Sutra that says:
“And what, bhikkhus, is the all? The eye and forms, the ear and sounds, the nose and odours, the tongue and tastes, the body and tactile objects, the mind and mental phenomena. This is called the all."
I mean if you try to tell me there is anything beyond these 12 things, It'd most probably be just a thought.
You can read this extensively on this 12 page pdf: http://dharmafarer.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/7.1-Sabba-S-s35.23-piya.pdf
Our senses, is an interface between US and the physical world.
We exist in a virtual reality in our brain..
When I was 6th grade or something I came up with the theory that the mind is the primary sense and other 5 senses are peripheral/secondary senses. Mind perceives itself and sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. Reality is an interpretation based on our senses. If somehow a sense was hijacked, we'd experience a different reality. In fact we all might be.
Imagine this thought experiment I developed while thinking alone in my teenage life: You take 2 kids. It could even be twins. Before their minds develop or even before they open their eyes, one child gets a device fixed on eyes that change the frequency of incoming electro-magnetic waves. It could even be a mechanical eye. The point is that the kid now sees 430THz as 770 and 770THz as 430; Red as Blue and Blue as Red.
If we let these two kids grow up normally like any other kid, will anyone be able to figure out that one kid sees the colors differently from the other. My conclusion was and still is that nobody, not even the kids will figure it out.
When I think about it as barley and adult, it sounds a lot like zk-SNARK privacy tech. Nobody will know what really happened.
Sorry for taking long to reply. I was busy with some other stuff.