Don't you agree that life is an illusion?

Question

if it wasn't then only negative would be death? but since it is we just get illusory happy and sad until Truth of death?

Yeah, secondanswerercarrier: life is pretty amazing, you have a point, and death is kind of the end of all that maybe -- so... death is just a part of life and really if people wouldn't think of them as opposites we wouldn't worry about death?

So which one of these answers is 'the best'?

Answer 1

The only thing that is real is life. Everything else is an illusion.

Answer 2

Illusion is also a form of reality, just it reflects into the mind as a thought taking the shape of pictures, according to our intentions.

There are many classes of thoughts, the thought of in depth intentions are dominant over all actions we perform.

The real illusion is that we see a falsehood as truth and vice versa.

Life of a creature is an illusion, and it comes into our thought in two ways, firstly our mind calculates that because we have been created thats why we are not real but an illusion, the only real is the Creator, secondly we negate in other dimension that our life is real because we have taken birth and then die.

In short, life is an illusion, in contrast of the Creator, but as a creature or being created, our life is not an illusion, but a reality which will be transormed into another form after experiencing the death (or transformation), and most importantly to understand the false hood as a truth is the real illusion which should be avoided by all means, the real task for a human being to understand the truth.

Answer 3

Yes, I do agree that life is an illusion...if it's not than whose reality is the real reality?

We don't see eye to eye because our lens are colored by our personal experiences.

Since we both interpret the same stimulus differently, one can infer that there is no right of sight.

If our projections are only real for us, not for others...than life must be an illusion.

Life is also an illusion with respect to the grand scheme. We are too close to life, hence we cannot see it objectively—we don’t ‘get’ the whole picture.

One day, I was observing an ant attempt to roll a blueberry home. I gave him a little help, as he was struggling. It is most improbable that the ant—with limited sight and consciousness—could comprehend the ‘truth’ of the situation. The ant’s reality was illusory...and so is ours.

Answer 4

I think that life is an illusion in that who we are is more than what we see. I believe we are all spiritual beings that will live on after death in enernity.

Our physical life is a testing ground filled with opportunity to do right.

I think Maximus in Gladiator said it best when he said, (may not be an exact quote), "What we do in this life is echoed in eternity."

Answer 5

I have two answers: one is the psychological theory of positive illusions. If everyone hates you, maybe it's better to live under the illusion that everyone likes you.

But a more basic answer would be that if life is an illusion, so is your question, so your question isn't really your question, and therefore can't be answered.

Answer 6

well, i agree that life is an illusion on the bases that our destiny has been decided by our creator,( teachings of the bible and religion)_ so we do what we can and the rest is a rock slide. we will always be led towards our destiny despite how much we think we are in control of our lives.

Answer 7

Hello, I believe that life (as we live it) is an illusion.
For example, we are all aware that eventually death will occur at every second globally . . and most painfully in our own families, to our most beloved.
That goes against the grain, however that we tend to set that inevitability aside and continue to live life as if tragedy will not affect it . . at least not art home or close to home, because it would hurt us so much, as to interrupt rudely our own self-created illusions, delusions.
For example, a rude awakening : My family, all of us had planned for a family reunion "one of These days soon, around January of last year . . BUT my brother died from a motorcycle accident, only 5 months after we had in our lulled state were making our plans for the reunion.
When Roy's, my brother's death came on the very day we were celebrating my young nephew's birthday, we were so stunned - we had to rearrange our minds, so as to allow the tragedies which can not be helped from happening.

To his day, I try to stay alert and in wait to meet up with tragedy with acceptance and grace . . but IT IS SO DIFFICULT TO DO SO!!!

Just yesterday, my granduncle Bob, whose Pneumonia had put him into a coma, rendering his brain to be damaged permanently 95%, was disconnected from all life supports he was connected to.

I cried for most of the day, even though this summer he would have turned 83.
My eyes at the end of the day were so swollen, I could feel them like golf-balls that ill-fitted my eye sockets.
I just could not accept his death. I had fooled myself, invariably . . even though I am well aware of death and that it will come to all of us - still, I had placed myself in this dream-state, where life is fully under our control, and that it makes absolute sense and that tragedies remained foreign to me and family.
Well, you see how wrong I was, to the point of being delusional and giving the illusion of life as we choose to live it, far more credibility than ever it would ever have.
If only we could arrive at a perspective where we can more willingly except the joys and tragedies which will ALWAYS be part of life, we'd attend to a more truthful reality.
But what kind of presence of mind and constant awareness, acceptance, courage and brutal dichotomy of life is most times far more than we can attain and maintain.
So . .
Wonderful, awakening kind of a question yours is!
Grace.

Answer 8

I believe there are illusions within this world.

But my question would be what is this life.
Depending on your answer would depend on what my answer to the illusion is or could be.

Answer 9

some people believe they can reach enlighten stage where you can see through the illusions of life. But sorry I don't know how.

Answer 10

I think that life is an dream....so did the famous spanisn writer Lope de Vega, who wrote, centuries ago "Life it's a Dream"...read it!!!