The Illusion of Reality

The Illusion of Confidence
The Illusion of Capacity
The Illusion of Knowledge
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The Illusion of Reality

We, as humans, are either over-confident, or lacking in confidence. It’s all the same thing: the expression of over/under confidence is a projection of confusion as we do not understand our true nature and what we know. We become caught up in either accepting or rejecting to whatever appears, based on an unstable memory, and ignorance of our natural knowingness.

Relative reality is fixated on accepting or rejecting: there is no spontaneous presence, but just a karmic memory – a product from the past which we repeat.
Absolute reality has no memory: it neither accepts nor rejects – just a spontaneous presence without any karmic product from the past, and so nothing to repeat.

We all have a ‘knowing quality’, which is awareness (this is not ordinary perception – it is pure perception). It is the one thing we can trust. What matters is how we (essence) relate to this awareness. Is it pure awareness? Or fossilised awareness?

We react because of mistaken past experiences, and therefore we recreate situations, thus deepening our karmic memory. Feeling guilty about a negative emotion only serves to recreate more emotions. Reaction is a product from our past; our fixed ideas about ourselves and everything. We exaggerate our knowledge, and we make assumptions based on a mistaken memories.

Breaking the illusion is recognising awareness. That’s all we need. In the moment of being aware – of recognising an emotion – there is liberating space. It’s that simple. But then we want to play with it… 😉

In the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything was Forty Two, but they never found the ultimate question to fit the ultimate answer. Whatever question we can come up with to that answer, which was wrong, the question would always be…Faulty Too!

It doesn’t matter how clever or dim we think we are, this judgement will always be an illusion, because knowingness is naturally present. And that is why we go round in circles, playing with the illusion, trying to make it fit reality… Forty two! Faulty too? Forty two! Faulty too?