Maya does not mean illusion, although it is often reductively interpreted as such. It simply means our experience of life is relative. Modern neuroscientists confirm this. It does not mean reality does not exist; it simply means that we are not seeing it the way it is.
Science today tells us that the universe is endless. Yogic culture talked of an ever-expanding universe millennia ago. It talks of the whole of existence as an eternal and ongoing dance between Shiva and Shakti. The non-physical dimension is Shi-va. The physical dimension of energy that animates the universe is Shakti. Shi-va is ‘that which is not’ and Shakti is ‘that which is’. They are two aspects of the same reality.
Each form of procrastination typically includes a "mariana illusion," where we filter reality through a false hope that the delay won't hurt anyone and the future will be better because we can later control what we delay today. In the world of the consummate procrastinator, this rarely happens.
Sayfa 2
Let’s try a little thought experiment. Imagine you’re playing shogi, and all of a sudden, your opponent starts moving pieces around however he wants with no rhyme or reason. And then, without even capturing your king, he looks at you as if to say, How’s that? I won.
…How did you react? Could it be that you wanted to punch him in the face? But can you think of a game where everyone plays that way? That’s right—that’s reality.
—Games and real life are different? No shit. We have a few words for the people who smugly state the obvious: Don’t even try to compare them, n00b.
Quora
Postmodernism is an intellectual dead end; it’s central premise seems to be derived from a saying of Nietzsche’s, “There are no facts; only interpretations”, which is thought to mean that each one of us views “reality” through our individual perspective. This is true to a degree, but as with so many aphorisms, there are limits to its validity;
“There is no reality where you and I exist that we don't end up exactly where we are now. None.”
“There is no reality where you and I exist that we don’t end up exactly where we are now.”
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I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind — and that of the minds of the ones who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.
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Aldous Huxley captured the core reality: "Experience is not what happens to you, it's what you do with what happens to you."
Sayfa 54
Death reality…
Tutunsan da âşıklarına, zincirlesen de kendini dostlarına yine de gömülürsün toprağa.
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Kaybolan yıllarımı siktir edin, bir bana yüzümdeki gülümsemeyi geri versin
Bu gezegende bazı türlerin soyu, insanların dikkatini bile çekmeden tükenir gider...
Sayfa 318 - Cixin LiuKitabı okudu
Hayatınızın gerçekliğine bakarken kendinize iki soru sorun: Birincisi, istediğiniz hayatı yaratıyor musunuz? İkincisi, değilse neden olmasın?
As you look at the reality of your life, ask yourself two questions: First, are you creating the life you want? Second, if not, why not?
"We have a tendency to assume that smart people aren’t
emotional people, and emotional people aren’t smart. The reality is that the
smartest people are those who use their emotions to help them think and who
use their thoughts to manage their emotions"
