Posts
"All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. Everything you think of as the material world
dissolves on the sub-atomic levels.
Literally, reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent illusion"
~ Albert Einstein ~
It is often mentioned that this nature-order is (in no particular order):
- an illusion
- a delusion
- an unreality
There are those who will respond to this assertion with the argument of: if I can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it or smell it then it must be real.
Why so? All of those so-called "proofs" are simply the result of our five natural senses reporting back to us information on natural phenomena that they were specifically designed to detect. That is not proof of a reality, it is the proof of a system.
Here's how you can know that nature-order is not real:
Real def.
1. existing or occurring as fact; actual rather than imaginary, ideal, or fictitious
2. being an actual thing; having objective existence; not imaginary:
A child is born and, in measured succession, grows into adolesence, young adulthood, adulthood, middle-age, then "old age".
Question: What happened to the child?
Answer: The child is gone. He "grew up".
Question: Well, if the child is gone, if he is no longer here, does that mean he was never real?
Answer: Correct. If the child were real, he would still be here. Instead, we are left to imagine him.
An apple is plucked from a tree and set on a table. Over several days it ripens, then spoils, turns brown and withers. Eventually nothing is left except for a mushy mass.
Question: What happened to the apple?
Answer: The apple is gone. It disintegrated.
Question:Well, if the apple is gone, if it is no longer here, does that mean that the apple was never real?
Answer: You catch on quickly.
If something is real, it is always real. It exists in its realness for eternity. It does not come and go. It does not rise, shine and then fade. It does not disintegrate, dissolve or "die". It remains static, permanent, forever real.
This nature-order has its basis in Unreality. Nothing is permanent. All is changeable, temporary. Nothing stays the same. These are your proofs of the unreality of the physical universe. No matter how "real" this nature-order may appear to you, it is not.
So, why are you clinging to it so tightly?
~ g
.
2 comments:
from the absolute..downwards and back upwards; can we not say anything that has a beginning has an end and is thus not reality whether matter or spirit? If nothing was prior to the absolute could we not say it is the only reality (for nothing is and nothing itself is not)? For whatever IS must be maya including the notion of the absolute? This does not however dismiss the notion while in this matrix to be moved by the divine atom within us for even mind/spirit is seperate from the notion of flesh which in itself provides the impetus for free will to do so
Unknown,
Agreed. That which has a beginning and an end is not real. It is a created thing. That which creates it can be considered real.
Matter is the extreme opposite pole of Spirit. It is Spirit in its most crystallized state. Spirit is eternal, unchanging, immortal. Matter is temporal, changeable and mortal in nature. The Real (Spirit) begets that which is Not-Real (Matter).
We must remember that in the material realm Man is the only creature that is twofold. Immortal as to the Divine-Spark located at the center of his microcosm, Mortal as to the physical personality that incarnates to experience the world of material phenomena.
~ g
Post a Comment