Is the heavy, tactile, seemingly irrefutable, and at times downright harsh "Reality" a state of the mind?

Answer 1

I don't know about state of mind, but I sure know it's a sorry state..

Answer 2

Absolutely, And as your mind shifts, changes and wanders, so does your reality.

Practitioners of Eastern (and western) mysticism have a certain state of mind which to them is a goal to reach and continuously hold. It's that state where your awareness is wide awake, focused, and you are able to give every movement, thought and act your undivided attention. It's called Satori.
Its in this state that you will realize that " heavy, tactile, irrefutable and harsh no longer hold their value

Answer 3

i think its part the state of mind, and part just facts,,,,,,
if you break a leg,, that is a fact,,, and the pain is harsh,,,,,, at the same time, you might get a few months off work, and the pain will abside,,,,, so the reality of having a broken leg changes,,,,, the facts change, your perception changes, your experience changes
other things are just personal views,, two people may go threw exactly/or very similar things,,,,,,, and their reality is totally different,,,,
for example, at my work, we sometimes work very long hours,,,,,,, with very little sleep,,,,, to me this is an opportunity for overtime,,,,, to me once i am tired (say after 14hours) i dont seem to have another level of exhaustion,,,,,and no matter how bad it gets, its better then being unemployed
others, their reality is its bad, and it gets worse and worse as the hours go on,,,,, and its not worth it

Answer 4

yes...a conscious creation of the mind/feeling/body to the conditions created world.

we are what we eat and we are what we have been taught (socially conditioned by). but moreover we are able to perceive and change perceptions by knowing the more full truth which can only be enlarged by relationship.

or...Reality is only real to the perceiver.

'i am therefore i think and feel and touch.'

to believe that .... "i think therefore i am" is to place the operating determinants on the conditions created with less respect to a S(s)elf...because thoughts would then become primary rather than mind/conscious which sets/alters reality.

be well...think positive of relationships.

Answer 5

I don't believe it is. I think once you learn that it not just a state of mind, but a useless reaction to things you are free of the box that encloses you. Your mind's state is only that which you choose. May it be whatever, you either let things choose it for you or you take hold of what your one soul right is; being freedom of self and thoughts made true.

Answer 6

Reality is what you make of it, in spite of what may actually exist, in any sense.

You have the choice to be an "aware" person; in touch with what and who is around you, interacting with society (for good or ill) and taking the good with the bad,...or...

you can choose to "turn off" your senses, to a certain degree, ignore what you can and do your best to be unaffected by what is around you.

Answer 7

"Reality", in the sense you seem to be using it, is always (largely) a state of the mind. You have chosen as a presupposition of organizing your sensations a view of material reality that aggregates phenomena as graspable, in everyday experience, in sensate wholes (rather than, for example, perceiviing them intellectually or through instrumentation as energy fields consisting of electron particles, or sub-particle units, etc.). In other words, you have chosen one perception of reality, a physicist or chemist or biologist may chose another percepton of reality (at least for purposes of his work). Choice of presuppositiion develoops through successive types and levels of experience and will vary from time to time, and from person to person (with or without the use of instrumentation) according to specific points of view (a cubistic artist may actually see the nude female in a different way than a person without the artist's particular point of view). Reality is the same, but mental states view reality in many different ways.

Answer 8

The fact that there is a boulder right there next to my house is not a state of mind. Whether it is good or bad is a state of mind.

The fact that my girlfriend dumped me is not a state of mind. Whether she is a *****, or is just following her heart, or is a saint, is a state of mind.

Answer 9

you need to have a question . remove the descriptive words and get to the point. YOu make no sense at all