Physicists starting to suspect physical reality is an illusion

[Paulm]

Simple reply. They rock

but in so many ways the answer or lesson learned isn't what you think,... its the path to get there, you see the answers only after letting go of the self, in that brief moment of not being, just seeing the truth for what it is,... the answer was always with you , just clouded behind what YOU think or want it to be....the truth is the truth, nothing else, and cannot be manipulated to fit our needs....it just IS...

 

[Paulm]

But that again, just proves if you want so badly to achieve something, like personal growth, working so hard to achieve it, full out.. That's not growth, that's ego again!

Smacking you in the face.

What we need comes and flows to us. Humbled again. Thinking we were more knowing, thus back into illusion.

Just because it may have had a good intention, doesn't excuse that slip.

This is the philosophical question of "is there really a selfless act", for once you get satisfaction from it, it becomes a selfish act.....that is the battle with the ego, once done the act has to be dropped, forgotten, to remain selfless and pure....that is the meaning of the Buddha on the road riddle. also why you strive to live in the present, not the past, what is done is done, not the future, for that is just us trying to work things our own ways, but in the present, the now, that is all there is.

 

[Donna K.]

Well, this went everywhere! Nice. The fact that there is this heavy conversation... or any conversation... proves the point. The IS is the IS. You Are. I am. We are. Not an illusion. After that, fair game. Create away.

 

[Lynne]

It's interesting insofar as what we're seeing now are the teenagers that saw the Matrix [1999] have grown up, become scientists, and are applying questions they asked their friends in those late night sessions to their fields of study; the interesting part isn't that they do so - we've known since the original Star Trek that science fiction inspires future scientists; no, what's interesting is that we're entering into generations of researchers with a hard science education rather than a classical liberal one. Lacking the exposure to philosophy that past generations have, they're reaching out for answers to existential questions in their own fields rather than traditional avenues.

If you have 6 minutes, might I recommend this video:

Wow!!! I liked that. Very thought prevoking. Thanks !.