Living Outside The Matrix

Living outside the matrix is living outside the mind. Our mind is formed by the society we live in – the collective social mind of limitations, and the topics we don’t talk about; if we do talk about other things, people feel uncomfortable, and are even hostile.

We can, however, live comfortably in society, even though it has no constant reality. It looks real, but everything in society is changeable and malleable, the same as the social mind. That is what forms the matrix.

Now and again, we meet someone in an semi-awakened state, but that’s usually when they are depressed. Depression is suffering, and the acknowledgement of that suffering is the first noble truth on the path to enlightenment. Unfortunately, depressed people keep returning to the very cause of their suffering for relief, and so continue the vicious cycle of existence.

The meaning of life is in the present moment, through close observation.
For that, we need a clear mind that is outside the matrix.