Life and consciousness are magic, white magic I should say. We'll never understand the charms and spells behind such phenomena. But we should just appreciate the show without any concern about who the magician is or how the tricks work. The SELF —the EGO— is the supreme illusion that feels so real it clouds our sight and distorts whatever is out there. According to the sages, when the EGO fades away, clouds disappear and we perceive the world very differently. This new way of seeing is intuitive knowledge, —direct knowledge, the third kind of knowledge Spinoza described. Supposedly the new reality so discovered is the TRUE REALITY. Call it Heaven, God, Pure Consciousness, the Eternal… but we cannot see IT through the eyes of common reason.
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