Re: the world is an illusion, but its real enough
Umm... Hello to all... I hate it when philosophy boils down to language and that too when it gets hit like a tennis ball between two languages.... Can someone please explain to me what "exactly" maya is?
According to me "illusion" is nothing but misperceived reality or wrong perception of an object that exists and the dictionary.com agrees with me. So, therefore for something to be misperceived it implies it definitely exists (not talking about form or appearance, just existence). 'cuz, we're perceiving it. "delusion" is the perfect word to describe pigment of imagination. Dreams are delusions and fantasies, not illusions. see below... it says it can be confused with illusion. I can never agree to something like "ultimately nothing is real". If nothing was real, anything can't exist, even this that we see, read and think. I feel that reality is like a mirage, not a sick joke of "nothing exists, or reality is false." If nothing exists, then even Brahman and this "I" program in this brain also don't exist.
(I hate using the "I") The way I see it.... The world is an illusion, because my senses or my cognition or "I" fail to "look" at the world properly, maybe I'm not evolved enough or wise enough. Just because I can't make sense, doesn't mean it doesn't exist (dont exist "sounds like" buddhism -> am I wrong?). Everything does exist, we're not good enough to "look" and "recognize" it. When we are good enough, or wise enough nothing is an illusion.
The way I see it.. God is the gene and I'm the expression, god is the program and I'm his function, he's the idea and i'm the result.... Can't really explain this feeling, (a bad analogy follows...) he's the anticlockwise motion and I'm the clockwise motion (You see from one side cyclone may be in anti clockwise and other way, the same is clockwise) like south and north pole at electron level, like ice and water. Come Maya, He's the world we see, if wisdom shines in us/me, back to being water.... Even this does not explain it! Just how shallow is language?
Nice thread Sadhuji....
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il·lu·sion
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noun
1.
something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
2.
the state or condition of being deceived; misapprehension.
3.
an instance of being deceived.
4.
Psychology . a perception, as of visual stimuli (optical illusion) that represents what is perceived in a way different from the way it is in reality.
5.
a very thin, delicate tulle of silk or nylon having a cobwebbed appearance, for trimmings, veilings, and the like.
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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Latin illūsiōn- (stem of illūsiō ) irony, mocking, equivalent to illūs ( us ) past participle of illūdere to mock, ridicule ( il- il-1 + lūd- play (see ludicrous) + -tus past participle suffix, with dt > s ) + -iōn- -ion
Related forms
il·lu·sioned, adjective
Can be confused: allusion, delusion, elusion, hallucination, illusion (see synonym study at the current entry).
Synonyms
1. aberration, fantasy, chimera. illusion, hallucination, delusion refer to false perceptions or ideas. An illusion is a false mental image produced by misinterpretation of things that actually exist: A mirage is an illusion produced by reflection of light against the sky. A hallucination is a perception of a thing or quality that has no physical counterpart: Under the influence of LSD, Terry had hallucinations that the living-room floor was rippling. A delusion is a persistent false belief: A paranoiac has delusions of persecution.
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illusion (ɪˈluːʒən)
— n
a false appearance or deceptive impression of reality: the mirror gives an illusion of depth
a false or misleading perception or belief; delusion: he has the illusion that he is really clever
psychol See also hallucination a perception that is not true to reality, having been altered subjectively in some way in the mind of the perceiver
a very fine gauze or tulle used for trimmings, veils, etc
[C14: from Latin illūsiō deceit, from illūdere; see illude ]
I don't know who I am, nor what I am.
I don't know what I need to know.
I don't know who you are, nor what you are.
All I know is that you love me, Oh Sarvathma.
Lead me on the righteous path, so that I may reach you.
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