Ergo, Others’ Minds Are Lying To You

This is mostly unconscious, as it’s a continuity of collective ignorance or indifference to our actual reality of pure consciousness.

We do, however, consciously exaggerate to prove our point, but all we’re doing is building a picture to believe in and maintain.

Realisation is the understanding that we have woken up in hell and, at that moment, the exaggerated mental projections are seen as illusions.

Dante’s Inferno describes hell;

“In the middle of the journey of our life,
I came to myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost.”

It’s where we are now
– and is the beginning of our journey.

We realise that this self is not what we are, and that is a moment of enlightenment. Our practice now is to remember the straight way, and not to be lost. This is related to our conduct.