306-Computer game- Buddhism in daily life

Computer game

Imagine life in 200 years, a new computer game has been launched. A simulation of the past, the game is set in our present time.

The people of the future have merged with the computer, the machine has become a neural network that becomes one with the player. Put yourself completely in the future, the human being is now part of a make-believe world, the player acts in history, but part of the game is also that the player does not even realize that everything is not real, nothing corresponds to reality, he thinks the game is real, he thinks he lives in this game.

Would it be possible, could this case have already happened, has it perhaps already happened?

How do we know that our life is real, is really happening, is not a computer game?

A game designed by some weirdo from the future who wanted to see what could happen?

We know how already realities can be simulated, how deceptively real some modern media make us believe today. If we imagine how well reality can be tricked in our times, how much better such unreality must be feasible in 200 years?

"One look at the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality"

- Alfred Hitchcock -

Now, of course, you may say, "It's all nonsense"!

Yes, but no one can deny that there is a possibility that it is so, it is at least conceivable. All of a sudden things become complicated, thoughts now become heavy, life suddenly seems senseless, threatening under such possibilities.

Are we only something like chess pieces on the board of "madmen" from the future?

But as long as everything is as it is, do we have to let ourselves go crazy?

According to the teachings of Buddha, life is only a dream from which we have to awaken, so it is roughly comparable to the situation in the computer game described above.

Again one could say: "All nonsense"!

But what if the statement of the great teacher is correct, we all live in a dream, and only the realization can free us from this dream?

One day we will have to officially admit that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of the dream.

- Salvador Dali -

Think about it, it would be possible!

Causes have effect!

Reality feels only real.

What we perceive is only a small part of the truth!

Nothing saves us so thoroughly from illusions like a look in the mirror

- Aldous Huxley - British writer - 1894 to 1963

Never before have so many been at the mercy of so very few

- Aldous Huxley - British writer - 1894 to 1963

You don't get rid of facts by ignoring them

- Aldous Huxley - British writer - 1894 to 1963

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