Life is an illusion?

Question

if life is an illusion then i also am an illusion, so being thus, it is real to me?

Answer 1

Yes. We are all wavelengths.

Answer 2

Your perception of reality is incorrect; to that extent is life an "illusion". Between reality and your apprehension of it stand many "filters" based upon your programming, and associated modes of skewing objective reality.

We all have the same challenge--part of the human "condition". Meeting the challenge is a major accomplishment for any human. And, has been accomplished over the years by very very few. The Buddha comes to mind. But, it can be done.

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Answer 3

The physical realm is an illusion, your physical self is an illusion, these things are both real to all of us on a spiritual level

Answer 4

No. Reality is an illusion. It is malleable and your experiences mirror your beliefs about self and the world - most of which are deeply unconscious. Unless you become fully conscious and discard these illusions, you will continue to misperceive - only see what you "believe" to be true as opposed to what actually exists. You will be delusional, never seeing what is possible for you.

Answer 5

illusion is real to an illusion, and life is a beautiful illusion.

Answer 6

You are not a "life". You are "alive". These terms have different meanings in the English language.

Alive is something that can be demonstrated with empirical evidence. Life is another matter. It is our laziness and sloppiness with language and over time that leads to philosophical quandries when they are actually linguistic issues.

Answer 7

Life is not an illusion-- it is densely objective, it is only your desires that make life seem that way.

Answer 8

Yes, like dreams. When you dream you are everything, the public, the actors, everything. So for these guys, the play is real... But, suddenly you realize that everything changes, including your body, so you begin to feel that this cannot be real, that the reality is somewhere else.

Answer 9

In a sense, yes. It's all you know. You could keep a child in an underground world and tell them that is all there is to the world. It's not true to us, but to them it is all they know and all they are expected to believe. Man believes in what he sees and what is put before him.

Answer 10

Humans, especially in America are missing out on the big picture of what we are really on this Earth for. The main reason I say that people in America are missing out on the big picture is because everywhere you look people are saying be you, believe in yourself, etc. but it all boils down to the fact that we're all here because God is putting us all to a test. A test to see if we're worthy of his kingdom, a test to see if we're good workers, our lives aren't meaningless whatsoever because it depends on how you live your life, what you believe in, what you stand for, and what causes you fight for.
We fight to stay alive for a couple of reasons: we believe or think that there is nothing greater than living life, we believe or think that we have to live for our family, friends, significant other, or even our kids we believe or think that we're afraid of the afterlife, of the unknown; of all of these things simply because we're just plain afraid.
We fight to earn things because we think and believe that we can't survive without them, we think and believe that things bring us joy & happiness, we think and believe that life wants us to feel like we're doing something right & that we deserve some sort of credit.
We fight for whatever reason because that's the laws of cause & effect, the laws of God, and the laws of the Universe.
I believe that all humans have the right to be happy and to be able to live for whatever reason they may choose, I can't judge the reason, you can't judge or anyone else and we certainly can't make the decision for these people no matter if we think it's meaningless or not.
The method to all of this is very simple. Like I said before, life is God's way of testing the humans for their afterlife because too many people believe that when we die there won't be anything to worry about except for hell and heaven but that's not true.
We've all lived a life for no matter how long just to prepare for a life after death where there is something far better than this world could offer us. The method to all this madness is in what I said up above, so just read between the lines." Okay, that's what I replied but here's what I meant because some of what I said was pretty self-explanatory but some of it wasn't.
I don't think that a human's life is meaningless in no way possible for the simple fact that unlike animals, humans have the power to make a tremendous difference in this world. We can help save this world from whatever is destroying it or is a threat. We, humans are here to take care of the animals, take care of the nature around us, and to live the way God asked us to, just the way he asked us to live.
I believe that when a person lives their life right according to their beliefs and the way God has asked them to live, humans would be able to survive through anything because he lived the way he instructs us to.
The earth is hell; look at all the problems which we endure on a daily basis including war, material possessions, crisis, etc. I believe that God sent us back here to live another life from which he’d be pleased with. I believe that all humans have been lived here before, died, their lives were examined by God & his elite team of angels, and God decided if they should come back and live again to learn from before even though we don’t remember our old lives.
I believe that God has a different (a different planet; that’s why there’s no life there) place ready for the people who have lived exactly the way he asked & has instructed them to do so. Humans will have different bodies that are secured for this new environment.
God created humans in his image and we are all God in a way because we hold a characteristic that he, himself holds in expressing himself.