The material world is an illusion in the context that it is a temporal platform of existence, in practical terms, nothing is ever the same twice at a molecular level.
Plato gained allot of his knowledge from the Vedas and promoted a very good analogy in this regard with the example of a reflected image upon water, the image exists but is not real, but the image indicates the existence of a real form that is the source of the image.
This is a good example to gain the understanding that this material world is simply a perverted reflection of the eternal spiritual world, which is our real home, we are all spiritual personalities having a temporary material experience.
To discuss further:- Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari (sda@backtohome.com)
2006-09-05 12:20:47
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answered by Anonymous
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Perhaps, there is no illusion… or it's also probable that your brain is in reality measuring the space linking the molecular compounds rotating around what your inherent knowledge has been formulated to construe as "mass" and as a result more substantial or “dense”... and not in actuality the dense, solid, mass that actually is… which, never the less, may possibly render weight to (or the ability to perceive) what your programming would presume to be it’s opposite… if you in actuality had eyes and could see… or if you even truly existed to consider what you are and are not perceiving in the reality that may or may not exist. It's difficult to determine, isn't it? And taking into consideration that we cannot with any certainty conclude whether or not you are wholly rational human being and are evaluating the reality that OUR individual consciousnesses are involuntarily programmed to compute. If we are limited in our own perception of reality, or the realism of YOUR truth, than it’s difficult to answer this dreadfully fruitless conundrum. In other words… I have no idea. Was it really rum and coke you were sipping? Or is your brain merely “hardwired" to recognize the submolecular compounds in your glass as that??
2006-09-05 20:23:53
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answered by Anonymous
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No, everything is not an illusion. The creation is a relative truth and Supreme Consciousness (Creator) is the absolute Truth. "Relative" means it is subject ot the changes of time, place and person. It may be true now but if the Supreme Consciousness widthraws His psycic conation, then the creation disappears.
2006-09-05 19:03:23
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answered by consciousnessrevo 2
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-Albert Einstein
Keep trying.
2006-09-05 19:01:48
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answered by thewolfskoll 5
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You assume that your eyes actually see or your ears actually hear. Could be that you only think you have senses to justify what your brain is telling you. That's assuming that you actually have a brain.
Please pass me a rum n coke or at least what I think is a rum n coke...
2006-09-05 19:04:18
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answered by GJ 5
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lay off the sauce, son.
either way, it all depends. there are countless schools of though on this subject.
i agree with objectivism: things exist in a physical sense, whether or not we understand them, agree with them, or are them to beat witness to them.
in other words, what EXISTS and what HAPPENS are constant, concrete, unchangeable facts. how you INTERPRET these things is what is transitory.
a playstation exists, whether you believe in it or not. your eyes exist, whether you believe in them or not. and your eyes send signals to your brain, whether you believe in them or not. whether you see the playstation as a useless, inanimate object, or you see a piece of machinery, or you see potential fun to be had, is up to your interpretation.
2006-09-05 19:02:54
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answered by Anonymous
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Thats easy, you still see objects because they are NOT an illusion, they really are there.
2006-09-05 18:58:29
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answered by Rachel☺ 5
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you are just not beileiving hard enough. have some faith in yourself, If you really believed it it wouldn't b there. also try a better reality adjuster like lsd :)
2006-09-05 19:01:17
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answered by haileybeth79 3
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dunno, i see things when i go outside sometimes, and it scares me because i think its an animal and im going to step on the poor thing, a lot of times theyre right in front of me. though i suggest you lay off the alchohol.
2006-09-05 19:00:30
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answered by Invader Zim 2
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Everything is perception - not illusion.
2006-09-05 19:13:58
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answered by Axel ∇ 5
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