Why do some people think that mountains, rivers, the earth and the universe are illusory?

There is a book called Shurangama Sutra, which is a very important classic in Buddhism.

This book is very famous, and some people praised it: "After reading Leng Yan, don't read the books of human dross."

There is a cloud in the Shurangama Sutra: "I don't know the color, the mountains and rivers outside are empty, and the soil is salty."

Our body, the material body, is called the color body.

You don't know that our bodies, the mountains and rivers outside, the void and the earth are all things in our' wonderful heart'.

Doesn't that mean that everything on earth and in the universe is in my heart?

Yes!

According to Buddhism, our world is created by our hearts.

Because our hearts are constantly changing, it becomes unreal and unreal to go beyond mountains and rivers to the vast universe.

Since the world was created by my heart, can I create a stone out of thin air now?

Since the world will change with my heart, can I imagine changing the shape of a stone out of thin air now?

Theoretically, it is possible.

But as long as we practice, we will find it impossible. Imagination out of thin air really can't create anything, and imagination out of thin air really can't change the shape of objects.

It seems that this theory is not very reliable.

Actually, I didn't make it clear above.

It should be said that our world is created by our sincerity.

Let's take a stone as an example.

This stone was created by all living things in our world (not just simple humans). You only rely on your own heart to change, and your strength is not enough. Your heart has played a role in this stone, just like you put a penny into the stock market and you can't see any effect at all.

When your thoughts can change the material world, you will be like the Buddha.

There is a saying: "The mind can change things, that is, the Tathagata remains unchanged." That's the truth.

The above is just a popular explanation. Please see the Shurangama Sutra for details.

Why do some people think that mountains, rivers, the earth and the universe are illusory? Make clear the difference between "unreal" and "real" first. In Buddhism, all regular laws that are self-contained, immortal and will not come or go are called true laws; All the impermanent laws of no self, birth and death, and coming and going are called magic laws. Everything in the world is a way to treat each other. There are high and low. There is good, there is bad; Ok, there are shortcomings ... this is better. But there is a law, which has self-nature; It neither lives nor dies; Don't come or go; Not good, not bad ... This law is the real law and the "only law". The physical laws such as mountains, rivers and the earth are illusory relative to this real and unique law because of their impermanence and variation in birth, residence, difference and extinction. In Buddhism, this method is called "the origin of emptiness". The primordial emptiness studied and observed by people with a sense of hearing is only a small part of Buddhism, not the whole of Buddhism.

Some people like fantasy, crazy talk, nonsense, and nonsense every day. Such people are people without cultural knowledge. Mountains and rivers and the universe are real objects. You see mountains and rivers clearly, and you live in them every day. You said that mountains and rivers are illusory objects, so people and other things are illusory. This is purely what people who live in dreams say. If they weren't living in a dream, they wouldn't think so. Some substances cannot be described as illusory substances, so it is wrong to think so. Mountains, rivers and the universe are not illusory substances, but the real substances you say are illusory. This statement has no scientific reason and will be laughed off by others. Unreal matter is unreal and does not exist. People had a dream, and the dream was illusory, because it didn't exist in reality. Most idealistic things are illusory, which may or may not exist, because they are gone now. Most material things are real things. You can see, touch and feel the real existence of matter. How can you say he didn't? You said he didn't, even you are illusory. Mountains, rivers, the earth and the universe are definitely not illusory substances. They live with us every day.

True or false, true or false. For a simple example, the world is composed of electrons, photons, sound waves, quanta and gravitational waves, and the signals that humans can receive are part of it. That is to say, the world that humans see is only a part, not the whole picture, so the world itself is not real. If you look at the whole picture, the world may not be like this, but it is real, so there is truth and falsehood.

The leaders of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Ye Hui and the Five Religions are all enlighteners, and their missionary contents are all around the core of "emptiness, inaction and true love", but they are only interpreted in different languages. Buddhism speaks clearly and sees nature, and all laws are unified; Taoists talk about cultivating the mind, holding yuan and keeping one; Confucianism stresses self-cultivation and is consistent; Jesus taught to turn over a new leaf and pray silently for that one; Islam emphasizes the firmness of thought and the stability of nature, while Islam returns to unity. All five religions are expounding the true meaning of Tao. Due to the differences in race, customs, habits, language and writing, the saints of the five major religions vary from time to time and from place to place, enlightening people and all beings.

Regrettably, after thousands of years of circulation, the essence of the founders of the Five Religions has long been lost, leaving only the superficial appearance. Christians tend to stick to the ritual language of various religious branches and leaves. The most serious thing is that the believers of the five major religions vilify each other. You call me a heretic and I call you a heretic. The spirit of compassion, inaction, loyalty, fraternity and halal of the five religions has long since disappeared. If we can let go of our self-obsession and deeply understand the core teachings of the leaders, we will find that the leaders of the five major religions are all expounding the same thing-"the origin of life and the true meaning of Tao" and teaching believers the way of liberation.

For example, we can understand this problem. For example, when we dream, we feel that everything in our dreams is real. Everyone will have this experience. As long as you don't wake up, you will never know that you are dreaming. Everything in your dream is real to the dreamer. If someone hits you, you know it will hurt. If someone chases you, you will run. If you don't run fast, you will be anxious. Everything feels the same as in reality.

Only when we wake up, will we know that everything just happened was just an illusory dream. From the perspective of enlightened saints, we ordinary people are all in a dream, which Buddhism calls a big dream of ignorance. From the beginning, we were all in a dream, and we haven't woken up yet, so they looked at everything that ordinary people are experiencing, just like we relived the scene in our dreams after waking up.

We now feel that everything around us is very real. It's just a dream feeling. Of course, if we want to prove that this is a dream, it is not enough to read a few classics from the ideological level and understand some truth. Consciousness is a real state, which requires us to practice step by step, and the answer is very hasty. I hope I can help you!

Some people think that the world is unreal, but there are two situations:

The first person who thinks the world is unreal is a typical idealist. In their view, there is nothing outside the heart, and everything is just a dream.

The second kind of people think that this world is unreal, that this world is just a well-designed virtual world, and that human beings are just a sad virtual consciousness.

These two situations are obviously incorrect. I firmly believe that this world is real, because this world is very bad, unsatisfactory and heartless, and this is the real world.

This produces the wisdom of Buddhism, and you will understand it when you learn Buddhism. Who is Buddha? It can be said: Sakyamuni Buddha, Maitreya Buddha, Pharmacist Buddha, Amitabha Buddha, etc. It can also be said that each of us is an immortal self-Buddha. Buddha is an enlightened sentient being, and all sentient beings are unconscious buddhas. Why do we sentient beings have troubles? It is the result of not knowing one's own nature Buddha, believing what is false is true, losing watermelon and picking up sesame seeds, and making a fortune with delusion all day. Finally, you think your body is yours, but you can't keep it; You think your wife, concubines and children are all yours; You still can't stay; In the end, you still come and go empty-handed, because these are not yours at all, just cause and effect. You should decide for yourself, because what you said is not yours. The mountains and rivers and the earth are all like this. If people know that there is no place in their hearts (self-nature) and want to get out of the predicament, they must return to their self-nature.

This language seems very advanced! But this is a very serious pathological thinking!

Why?

Because of the existence of the universe and nature, it really belongs to the real image of a material world! Can thinking by human will be changed?

Nowadays, there are many stupid people in the world because of the influence of religious thoughts. It is foolish to equate short-lived activities in personnel and good or bad changes in life with natural phenomena in heaven and earth!

Is it like saying that you open your eyes and see a tree, but close your eyes and the tree doesn't exist?

Life is really short! The so-called, a hundred years in a flash!

However, can this physical universe be decided by your personal life and death?

From this perspective, the world must not extend the concept of religion to the wrong judgment of the real world!

Therefore, stupid inference misled by religious thinking can only belong to serious mental illness!

This question is very interesting. In fact, it is a clarification of the concepts of true and false, virtual and real. When the concept is clear, there is no doubt about this statement.

The answer is as follows:

The so-called truth is eternal, and the so-called fallacy dances with the wind and changes with fate. Because: the mountains, rivers, the earth and everything in the universe, which appear in form and image, actually change with fate. This change happens all the time, but it is obvious or not, and it is not permanent, so we say that everything in the mountains, rivers and the earth is false and not true.

But what needs to be emphasized here is that when we say it is untrue, we mean that it changes with fate, dynamically changes with fate, and is "unchangeable". However, under the objective conditions it adapts to, everything in the universe is real. For example, in a family, husband and wife live together and the marriage is legal. Is the child born to your wife a fake child? A: Of course it's not fake. Of course it's true. It's just that these truths are valid under certain conditions. Conditions have changed, and so have these truths, so they are not the original truths. The child born to your wife, has he always been a child? Answer: only in front of you husband and wife, he has always been a child. Relatively speaking, he is not a child.

Knowing the concept of truth and falsehood, the doubt about this statement was broken.

To put it bluntly, it is basically the "disaster" of science fiction and science fiction movies. Many sci-fi movies have descriptions of the virtual world, such as Inception's The Hacker of Another Dimension. The description of these plots has aggravated some people's cognition of the virtual world!

Another point is that the rapid development of modern computer technology has also given people a new understanding of the virtual world!

As we all know, the discovery of modern computers is very rapid, and its functions are very powerful, which can simulate more and more complex real environments. In pure theory, one day, a super powerful computer can simulate the whole universe!

Then the question is, if one day humans can simulate the whole universe with computers, how can we be sure that our own universe is not simulated by other advanced civilizations?

This is a problem that cannot be ignored!

The real world that we think is very real may just be a set program. After setting some rules, the program can run automatically without any interference!

Of course, this is only a theoretical assumption and imagination. Anyway, we think our world is real, which is enough. Even if our world is really virtual, so what? As described in Inception, some people know that they are in a dream, because the dream is so real that they don't want to return to the real world! Maybe life is really "a game and a dream"!