Illusion Life

When I realized life is what you make of it, I also realized life is an illusion.

Everything around you is only a platform for a play. Drama happens when people come together. The string of relationships and bonds makes this illusion seem so real. Our senses makes us feel that everything around us is real.

But the truth is, we create the things around us. We draw our relationships and experiences in. Hunger, love, rejection, anger, joy. Anything physical and emotional that we feel is real, is actually what our minds draw in.

Our minds make things happen.

It starts in your head. Your beliefs and thoughts make you react to external objects in a certain way and you act accordingly. When you act (and all of us are actors), you trigger a cause and effect. The physical effect touches your senses which you feel are real – reality. Physical reality.

The trick is to know what thoughts lead to what effects. Happy thoughts usually lead to happy effects. Think happy and you will react joyfully to the things around you. Think you’re trapped or struggling and you will react accordingly to the things you see.

As a kid, we take on our parents belief systems. Some may not serve us. To change or remove a belief is simply a matter of taking on a new and stronger view point and emotion. Something that gives you stronger conviction of what’s ‘real’.

If you suddenly realize that life is magic, that you don’t need to worry about tomorrow and your bank account, then there’s no more fear and concern left of sleeping on the streets and dying of hunger and thirst. Suddenly, you realize your physical needs will always be taken care of. Your approach in life will be different. Your thoughts and beliefs change. People will stop asking what you do for a living, because you don’t have to DO anything to live.

What your ancestors believed is no longer your belief.

You know now with fact that it is silly to pray to sun gods. You form new beliefs. There’s no fear of raising the wrath of the gods. Imagine a mind – its thoughts and beliefs – when it believed with conviction that if you don’t sacrifice a virgin every year, all your crops will die and everyone will starve to death. So what will you do to serve a greater good?

Now here’s the thing – what if suddenly, I realize that life is this silly game of minds? My physical needs are real. As long as I am a physical body, I need nourishment and shelter. But to obtain nourishment and shelter has gotten so complexed. The drama men play have hoarded all natural resources and knowledge. They have placed man-made price tags on everything. The only thing left untagged is the sun. Even the air we breathe – if you choose quality air – comes with a price.

I’ve learnt that Profit is in direct conflict with Abundance.

Imagine if there were 10 times more diamonds then there is today. What would happen to its price? Drop. Profit goes down. In order to protect their profit, they have to ensure all things are valuable. They have to ensure scarcity. They have to cut costs where possible. They have to find the cheapest means to obtain the highest margins. At what risk?

This is the drama we’re caught in today. The illusion of wealth.

Everyone of us is supporting the profit system. We’re perpetuating this drama because we believe money is real. We’re perpetuating scarcity.

Such strange illusions we weave.

The illusion I have in my head is what society will call a dream.. because only I believe its real.