Reality Or Illusion?

	



  


    

  
  

    
Is There Reality?
Can You Perceive It?
  
 
  

    


 
There has to be an understanding of reality; that is the key to sanity in life.

Only when people choose to go with "their interpretation" of reality, they get in trouble by such choice.
Anyone defying the existence of reality can never be assured of finding truth and making right decisions.
If you are satisfied with the opinion that there is no reality or it can not be known, go ahead by all means.

If not, make the goal of your life to learn how to comprehend reality. 

Without that, what is the purpose of searching for anything if there is no reality? What are we searching for then and for what?
Keep in mind that the commonly known, five senses and most thoughts can confuse you at any time and you know that.
So you can't rely on them.
At different states of our consciousness and even mood, we perceive things differently.

You may like a certain smell, but when upset may be irritated by it.

You may like a person, but under deep negative emotions may even hate that person.
So sense and thinking are subjective concepts. They change and have no center in them.
Yet, there is a way for humans to discover the True Reality and go in that direction.
There is only one way as I see it.

That way is through consciousness derived from awareness and multiplied by morals or virtues.
As simple as that. I have come to that equation by going through certain sufferings and asking “why and how?”
I tried to look objectively into the two worlds: mine and of the person who was delivering that suffering to me or by means of whose it was administered.

Pain can, equally, numb or awaken. I chose to wake up. Awaking always gives a chance. Numbness gives a loss of senses and orientation in life.
Instead of being absorbed into your world of thinking and emotions, which control you (trust me, you do not control them when you enter their world) you have to rise above that level.

The higher level above them would be awareness. When you are aware, you can see yourself doing something. You are not identifying with the state in which a part of you is doing something but you see the action objectively from a distance. You see yourself from a distance. That gives a better focus as well as objectivity.

For example, you watch a movie and forget that it is a movie and take things literally. Or you may be aware of you watching the movie. Is there a difference?

You can not stop yourself when sink into the depth of thinking-and-going-through-emotions. You are there.



But, you can stop yourself and even reverse the direction when notice that a part of you is feeling the emotions or doing something. Do not identify with your thoughts or feelings; they are a part of you but not you.

What I am saying is this. Your True or Higher Self is never in the emotions or thinking. The True Self can always analyze them. So it must be above them. Thinking and emotions can not analyze themselves. Analysis is always done by something on a level higher or above. 
When you see yourself doing something, as if watching a movie of yourself in a live broadcast, you can see the errors if make any.

It is like seeing yourself in a mirror and observing every gesture and facial expression you make. When do you have better awareness of what and how you do: seeing yourself in the mirror or without?



When you act without monitoring your act, you can’t see if you do anything wrong or notice any faults with your appearance. You act being absorbed by the act. You don’t even see, then, that real you and you in an act are not the same. When you commit a certain act only a part of you is doing that but your True Self or real you can observe everything and monitor and even realize errors and stop the part of you that is committing the act.

The expression, "I stopped myself" doesn't make sense. A force can't act upon itself. A higher force must do that. You do not stop yourself. Your awareness, which translates into awakening your Higher or the True Self monitors the lower level and can decide to continue or to stop. The moral choices are controlled by the higher level of awareness - the Higher Consciousness.
Again, an act is not you; it is an effect of the cause that is above the effect.

You are not an effect – you are the cause of that act.

An act is not a cause – it is an effect. Follow the mathematical equations here.
Make sure you reread this chapter until fully grasp the idea. The ideas in the other chapters are based on the concepts examined in the earlier ones. You may not skip anything in order to put bits and pieces together. Only one, united picture would make a complete sense. So never rush and take your time. make sure you understand in your heart and can explain what you realize to others coherently. If you can't, that means you only think you understand.

Again, coming back to the subject being discussed, don’t identify with the effect. Always go for the cause.
You cause an effect but you are not an effect. It is pure logic.
Awareness is the means of seeing what you do or rising to the level of the cause immediately above the effect. You are aware of doing something. 

While you are asleep, you, also, do many things but, usually, are not aware of the fact you are dreaming.
There is a kind of dream when you know you are sleeping and dreaming and observe your dream from a distance by being aware you are in a dream. You know that you can wake up soon and may, even, make a conscious effort to wake up right away. You may succeed or continue your dream involuntarily but you separate yourself from the dream.



The next, higher level would be controlling your dream and doing anything in it you choose. Those dreams are rare but happen to those people whose awareness becomes strong.
The ultimate, highest level would be not to have dreams at all.

You are asleep but are fully aware of the surroundings. You can, at will, allow the perception of a subtler state called dreaming but you are in full control.Awareness is the key in all of these examples. It is clear that the higher the awareness, the more control and vice-versa.

In higher awareness, you control your dreams. Eventually, you would , even. be able to influence the reality by altering it on a certain level and that change would be realized or materialized. But that is another subject.




Continue The Article ... 
 


 

   

Continuing....







 
Again, only by being aware, you can see what you do and even ask the question, “what do you do and if what you do is right?”

Without awareness, you not only don’t know if it is right or wrong but a question on that nature, itself, can’t even be posed.
 Nothing is active in you to ask that question. You are all absorbed by your action once you identify with it.

So never be absorbed in to anything completely loosing yourself there. Always be aware of what is going on with you and around you.

I.e. you monitor the inner and the outer worlds in the relationship to you - the micro and macro.

I covered awareness from all the angles so we can proceed further.

I repeat the equation that makes sense to me.

“To perceive reality is through consciousness derived from awareness and multiplied by morals or virtues.”

Awareness in its higher aspect is consciousness.

When you have a sense of right and wrong, fair and unfair, that means that the level of you on the level of consciousness is active.
 On such level is what people refer to as Higher Consciousness. 

I have used the term levels because all recognize that there are levels of consciousness and subconsciousness at least. 
There are more of them but that is later.

In my understanding, the level of Higher Consciousness means one thing: knowing right from wrong and being aware of the fact what must be followed to get the right result. 
Some people know well what is right or wrong and, still, do what is wrong by their choice.

The Higher Consciousness never permits that.

The Higher consciousness is based on the Higher, Universal Principles. 
The latter are projected on the former.

No egotism or selfishness is, ever, involved in them.

Therefore, anything of the same class or attributes would posses the same qualities.

So, now, we can safely say that, in fact, The Higher Consciousness is the state in which awareness is taken to the ultimate height founded on the virtues or morals since they are also at the highest level. 
You tell me what can be higher, more noble, and better than virtues and morals? Even all those who do not believe in them prefer to be treated, by the way of virtues and in moral ways.

Who does want to be innocently murdered, robed, raped, cheated, have belonging stolen, made fun of or tortured?

Only the absence or morals and virtues allow that.

When you encounter a virtuous or moral person you know he/she would not do that to you.
 It is against his/her principles being obeyed. So the hypocrisy is obvious: not all want to follow the virtues and morals but all want to be treated in their way only.

Just amazing, what can I add. 
That is a crown of selfishness: to demand or expect something and to refuse giving it in return.
 
One way street indeed.
 So all recognize the fairness of virtues and that this is the highest desirable state one can wish upon himself as long as it is done onto him/her but not necessarily willing to administer themselves.

 

Only that state that is recognized and wished by all is the highest or most desirable as we have seen, at least in one way direction.
 Only the highest state allows perceiving reality in a highest way so to say. 
Therefore the Higher Consciousness since it perceives the virtue accurately is on the same, highest level. 
Reality then can be perceive the best by the best or highest means available.

Anything else is, then, lower level(s) and only an interpretation of reality. High to high – low to low. 
I use the law of analogy here.

Human laws and opinions may change but the pillars of virtues and morality are Universal and Eternal. 
They can change no more than the light of stars that left its source and travels in vast space.

Light is light. Morals and virtues are of light and have the same qualities: pure, bright, warm, selfishless, giving without demanding anything back. Virtues are, also, such and so are any of their further derivatives.

Always strive to get in touch with your Higher Consciousness. 
Only that can give you the sense of reality and unveil the answers to everything.



I do not agree that some flows of philosophy and religion which advocate that there is no reality but only illusion or Maya.

I say that there is reality. It is independent of any observer and even if all of the observers were removed it would still exist.

The Universe would still be there the way it was before even if all humans disappeared suddenly from the face of the Earth.

If you stick your head in sand and see nothing that doesn’t mean the whole world has, just, vanished into void.
 The reality remains the same.

If it changes, it changes but it must be, then, changed by some awesome force.
 Believe me, your or mine opinion is not that force.

Any one recognizing virtues and principles i.e. the qualities of light can perceive the reality in the proportionate degree he/she can perceive those virtues. 

I do not follow any religion or philosophical movement, I use common sense and follow the Cause and Effect chain combining intuition and logic so that both can compliment each other making one whole from both directions: above and below.

I say reality exists and we can perceive it to the degree of our purity or undistortion.

Maybe not all of reality, maybe all, but, definitely, enough to fulfill the whole life or lives.

We have touched here some of the prime and major concepts.

Be, always, aware of yourself doing anything or or even thinking of it. 
Awareness is the key to unlocking many secrets.

Observe yourself from a distance i.e. do not get involved in your emotions or thinking. 
Know you are not them, they are a part of your bigger world. 
You are more than your thinking or feeling or emotions, much more…. 







Next, Main Step