2006-11-17 12:10:07 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Buddha wants us all to wake up. That is what he did and it is the only true goal of Buddhism, to wake from suffering. I'm all for Buddha and for ending suffering.
2006-11-18 01:33:36 · answer #1 · answered by Seeker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My life isn't a dream, it's a nightmare and always has been.
I would love to wake up into a life that didn't cause me to have 2 nervous breakdowns in 1 year and 3 in my entire life.
I'd like to waken to a world where I didn't have to take 3 different types of medication to prevent depression and anxiety. I would like to spring out of bed without a single thought of suicide every single day of my life unless I'm on
medication. I'd like to wake up and find my husband well again and relieve him from the pain and me from the caretaking while trying to work 6 days a week.
WAKE ME UP-----PLEASE!
2006-11-17 23:16:14 · answer #2 · answered by Cookie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In some ways the question asks, What is our preferred relationship to reality.
Some people think that how reality happens to be is unimportant "as long as I'm happy it" (i.e. as long as I have a first-person perspective that's pleasing.)
Other people think that how reality happens to be matters, and often this is what's behind our wanting to know 'the truth'.
Imagine that you enjoy being around a certain group of people which you define as 'friends'. But further imagine that when you are not around they mock and laugh at you, and often discuss what a pitiful, disgusting person you are; but, they think it's great fun to pretend to be your friend - in fact, they've formed a little club that will pay-out a pool of money they all put in when they were kids, long ago. Whoever is alive at last and has maintained the "friend" illusion to you wins an extraordinary amount of money. But, alas, you'll never know.
Would it matter that your friends were all shams, as long as you never found out, and as long as you always felt that happy feeling of friendship when in the presence of shams?
Most people have the intuition that something important would be missing. Likewise with a forever-dream. Something is missing when the first-person presentation is not tied to the way things actually are -- again, when the element of 'truth' isn't a part of one's life.
2006-11-17 20:30:40 · answer #3 · answered by brinticus 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No because if life was just a dream I'd be an old dog laughing (dog-like) at all you fleas.
Plus the food here is so generic.
And they're probably taking me to the vet tomorrow to have me "put out of their mystery"
2006-11-17 20:21:21 · answer #4 · answered by gannibus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at it this way.
The past is only an abstract thought. It is only in your mind because it has already happened. It is intangible.
The future is also an abstract thought, it hasn't happened yet. It is only in your mind that it exists.
The present is an infinitly small amount of fleeting time between the future and the past. Infinitly small - it really doesn't exist at all.
So is life a dream? Is it only in your head?
2006-11-17 20:24:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I'm in a really good part lately. Don't want this to end. Anyway, this can't be a dream or I wouldn't have to go to work! & I'd be able to fly. I always love that.
2006-11-18 10:51:11 · answer #6 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know perhaps some day, but what if the world we awaken to is horrible and filled with even more pain then the current one, then I would choose to dream forever.
2006-11-18 07:37:39 · answer #7 · answered by Engel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, this reminds me of The Matrix... I think I'd want to wake up to the real world.
2006-11-17 20:25:12 · answer #8 · answered by Ændru 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My life has it's hard times, I'd hate to see what the real life is
2006-11-17 20:13:21 · answer #9 · answered by Ulver 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends entirelly upon what I'm waking up to.
2006-11-18 07:59:55 · answer #10 · answered by -.- 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋