Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Many Buddhists believe that we live in a world were everybody lives their own reality. There is an actual reality that nobody knows because of our ignorance. The only way to achieve this actual reality is to detach ourselves from all our illusions. We dont realize that in order to really change the world we must change the way wee see it. This theme is shown in the matrix when neo realizes that he is living in a world of illusions and that everything he takes for certain is actually only a bunch of computer codes. He created his reality according to what the machines had programmed, but non of what he sees, feels, smells, tastes, or touches is real. The world we perceive around us is a reflection of what we have inside. This is why every mind has a totally different idea of what the real world is. When neo is learning to dodge bullets, morpheus tells him that if he is the "chosen one" than he wont need to dodge them. In the end when Neo finally reaches his enlightenment, he is able to stop the bullets because he realizes they aren't real. What is than the real reality? Do we want to know it or did we create of own realities in order to avoid it? Is "ignorance really a bliss"? Should we work to get there or are we running away?

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