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Question: What are the implications of seeing the physical and outer worlds and all suffering as Illusion!?
Personally, Globally and Spiritually!.
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liberation!. as long as we are in the physical realm and in this physical form, the manifest world is not necessarily an illusion, it is true to the senses!.!. but the psycho dramas we make out of all that is happening, the stories we build in our minds, the suffering and the resistance we create for ourselves!.!.!. this is an illusion one can get rid on by dwelling on the question: who am i!? who am i truly!? and this is to be answered not through intelect, only through a direct seeing of self!. one can aproach this seeing only by rejecting all that you are not!. you are not your mental and physical possessions, all you can see and know is not you, you are not the body (ultimately, right now it is an expression of your source), for you say: my body, my arms!.!. yes, you use to body to experience, and to perceive!. but it is not the ear, that is hearing, it is you, it is not the eyes that see by themselves, they are instruments that you use to perceive!.!.!.!. who are you!?
here is a video called: the whole world is an illusion
http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=yq4T7t75k!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think it depends!. If you realize that all is an illusion!.!.!. not just the outer world mind you but you too!. You are an illusion (I'm an illusion etc etc) and:
1) You've also discovered that your experience in this illusion is entirely dependant on whether or not you fight the illusions you are seeing!. That is if you've cultivated the ability to LOVE (peacefully be with) all that is, just as it is,!.!.!. then it could be a really sweet and wonderful way to live!. You might visit people and love them all (even the ones other people might call grumpy or rude), you might come to be genuinely grateful for the experience of the illusion!. If you were genuinely grateful for the illusion for the colors and sounds and feel of the illusion you might find joy in everything you do from cleaning the bathroom to riding a rollercoaster!. I imagine too that you'd be less attached to the outcome of your actions and more fascinated with just being with yourself while you did whatever you did!. Life (illusory or not) becomes a gift more wonderful than anything you could have hoped for!.
2) If however you haven't cultivated the ability to love what you think you see (love the illusion) then it could be a really painful experience!. You might not find cleaning the bathroom to be much of a gift!. Frankly that could be a very painful and despairing way to live!. You may become world weary, and see yourself as "stuck" in the illusion looking for a way out!. Maybe in your quest for finding something that mattered (because of if you see that everything is an illusion then you might also start to believe nothing matters) maybe you'd look for more and more intense experiences hoping one of them finally fulfilled you!.

Or not!.!. who knows really!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You mean actually seeing as in knowing it to be fact and not just an understanding or a belief someone has!? I think if someone actually knows this, they are in a state of bliss that accompanies that knowledge!. They know also that death is an illusion and so they don't worry about survival!. Globally it helps everyone and everything when a soul become free and moves up to a higher spiritual plane!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Indifference!. A lack of concern for any aspect of your own or anyone elses life!. It is difficult to pretend you give a s**t when you don't!. Anyone with half a brain can spot a lie!. As result you will gradually become more and more isolated from the people around you, and depending on whether you are merely pretending to be an enlightened being, or whether you actually have crossed the borders to the realm of the psychotically self-obsessed, you may start to question why noone calls, why you aren't invited to family gatherings and why your friends cross the road when they see you coming!.

Personally I don't appreciate being someone elses illusion, and I'm pretty sure selfishness and cruelty are not traits of enlightenment!.

Anyway, if you shut out the rest of the world, the only person you're left with is yourself!. I suppose it depends on whether you are comfortable with that or not!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Physical world is not an illusion, it is real!. But our perception/notions of it may be illusory, egocentric and self seeking only, then the suffering is the result!. The implications of such suffering is that we will be alienated from people, animals and nature even further, feel lonely, helpless and hopeless and the resultant frustration may lead to destruction of the self - suicide, if the aggression is turned inward - or the world - if it is turned outward!. On the other hand, if the perception of the world is that all that exist - animate and inanimate beings - are eternally connected to each other, I am only part and parcel of the connectedness and everything connected functions with perfect equality, mutuality, complementarity, contributing all along to each other nurturing and hence saving/serving others is in fact serving/saving oneself : such a view/being will not beget suffering, it contributes to the glorious growth of my being with/together with all other beings!. This is spiritual, global and personal all at once!Www@QuestionHome@Com

However they are, they are bountiful!.

Reality here depends on illusion to be reality, which here again illlusion depends on reality to be illusion!.

Nothing here is inseparable!.

" The Frog said to the Centipede in fun, ' Which leg, please, comes after which!? ' This raised her doubts to such a fever pitch she fell confounded in the ditch, not knowing how to run!."

Allow that ours be known and made practical as to be treasured in the heart and mind evermore, that -- illusion is nothing to trifle with!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Just wanted to say!.!.!."thanks for asking this and thanks "foodoogeek" for such an insightful answer"!.!.!.
Hmmm!.!.!.she and you have given me something to think on!.!.!.I needed that!.!.!.LOL

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an illusion that is a delusion not realityWww@QuestionHome@Com