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Maya and the Illusion of Form

Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
do those who become lost, become hypnotized by the kaleidoscope of changing light passing through prisms?


E = M(c*c)
 

Road Less Traveled

Active Member
do those who become lost, become hypnotized by the kaleidoscope of changing light passing through prisms?


E = M(c*c)

Form looks pretty real to me, even if it were made of energy and light.

What is wrong with material or form anyhow? Seems neutral, like it never hurt a thing itself.

What could pose a problem is something entirely different being able to ‘feel’ the material rotting, decaying, suffering. Undesired feeling. Also, the ‘attraction’ or ‘attachment’ to excess and unhealthy amounts of material.

Also, if it’s an illusion.... what is trying to trick us and make us lost? Is the light being deceitful and tricky?
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
I can get lost in Lost in Maya

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But if can produce some fantastic effects

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Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
Form looks pretty real to me, even if it were made of energy and light.

What is wrong with material or form anyhow? Seems neutral, like it never hurt a thing itself.

What could pose a problem is something entirely different being able to ‘feel’ the material rotting, decaying, suffering. Undesired feeling. Also, the ‘attraction’ or ‘attachment’ to excess and unhealthy amounts of material.

Also, if it’s an illusion.... what is trying to trick us and make us lost? Is the light being deceitful and tricky?


forms are temporal. why fixate on temporal?
 

Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
Ahh, the additional dimension by which a solid object may be distinguished from a two-dimensional drawing or picture of it or from any planar object.
the creatures seeing themselves in the mirror cannot understand themselves as the image in the mirror. they are conscious of something but don't realize i am that i am


so they rage against themselves


we see in two dimensions and the mind adds depth; which is the third dimension. then we step higher into the fourth dimension; where things are abstract and don't really have a physical manifestation, or observation but we know they exist and we search for them.


believe, test, realize.

we are the crazy people
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
the creatures seeing themselves in the mirror cannot understand themselves as the image in the mirror. they are conscious of something but don't realize i am that i am

Quite a few creatures are self aware and can easily pass the mirror test

Mirror test
 

Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
Quite a few creatures are self aware and can easily pass the mirror test

Mirror test
that wasn't the point. there are a few who can't and yet have consciousness of something, not even realizing it is self. they are caught up in the form of otherness. this is the illusion of maya
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
that wasn't the point. there are a few who can't and yet have consciousness of something, not even realizing it is self. they are caught up in the form of otherness. this is the illusion of maya

Sound very much like a mental/cognitive disorder to me, look up prosopagnosia
 

Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
Sound very much like a mental/cognitive disorder to me, look up prosopagnosia
it isn't; if the being had never seen it's own face before and understood what it was seeing.


people act differently when they have knowledge, understanding of something vs see it as foreign, different, unknown to/from self
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
it isn't; if the being had never seen it's own face before and understood what it was seeing.


people act differently when they have knowledge, understanding of something vs see it as foreign, different, unknown to/from self

So perfectly normal then, like the mirror test i mentioned earlirt
 

Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
So perfectly normal then, like the mirror test i mentioned earlirt
no, the being focuses on the form. it doesn't focus on the action. the action, the spirit, the energy of the thing, is what is important. not the form.

form only follows function. form evolves from adaptation of the mind to the change. continuously evolving. the form is temporal. mind, consciousness is eternal.
 
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