Right now, you're sitting in front of your computer or you hold a phone and you're reading these words. You consider yourself awake and sane person. That is a great mistake. A person cannot be awake!
You think you know how the world works, but you really don't.
You move through life forming opinions and you entertain little stories about who you are and why you do the things you do, leading you up to reading this sentence. Taken as a whole, you consider yourself to be real.
The truth is, you have no clue why you act the way you do, choose the things you choose, or think the thoughts you think.
The end of the world
I was a small kid and I had an old cousin who used to come and have a drink with my father. My cousin was in his 70s and he was always talking about the end of the world. For him the end was inevitable and imminent. That was 50 years ago, nothing changed.
Recently, I was on few home-sitting parties (btw I despise such parties) where my friends in their late 50s were talking just like my cousin. The themes varies but general underline is that the world is going to end.
The world will not end, what actually has happened is that these people became old. Nothing else. The bullshit they're trying to sell to others are medicine for their neurotic and tired mind. All life they were wanting something that does not exist, finally the old age came so panic and desperation surfaced.
I don't believe people. Yesterday my wife asked me who do I trust? I told her no one, there is no a single person in this world that I trust, including her. She was not pleased with such honest answer, she, just like all other people prefers lies over truth.
I clearly understand that a person does not exist. All people that I know - my daughter, father, wife, my relatives, friends, neighbors, coworkers etc... are mechanical automations in a deep sleep, wrapped up in their imaginary view of the world. They have to see that fact yet, and it's not sufficient to see it philosophically in words. It is necessary to realize it in clean, simple, and concrete facts, in their own life.
Try to understand your self
When you understand your position, then what? The new understanding of self does not help you in the world at all. But if you understand that your self-sense has been formed and constructed out of your ideas, beliefs, and images, you will see, eventually, that it doesn't define you, it fools you; The truth is, you have no identity.
If you get out of those images you are having about your self, the outside world begins to collapse, so to speak. By losing your sense of self, it's as if you have lost the whole world as you knew it. That is the end of the world worth talking about.
You definitely know that there is nothing but perception. "The world" is not your world; it is only your perception! And fuck off, you cannot change a thing about it.
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