The question is, "Is the world an illusion?" Notice what we put here for you. The Reality of this world is the Reality of your Being. In this sense, the world is an appearance, despite appearing and disappearing, despite being unreal since it's not something that subsists, that remains, the world is just an existential phenomenon. In this sense, it doesn't have an immutable, permanent reality, different from this Being, this Consciousness, which is where this world appears.
So, when we talk about this Consciousness, when we talk about this Being, we are talking about the Real Reality of the world. The basis of this appearance is this Consciousness. So, the world has Reality in this Consciousness. Thus, as something that cannot be separated from this Consciousness, the world, yes, in this sense, we can say it is also Real since Real is this Consciousness where this world appears.
Making that clear, we can touch on another aspect here, which I consider important. What you need to find out is the Truth about who You are, and if you take this direction, and if you observe, and if you investigate, and if you look closely, you find out that you, as a separate entity, as "someone" in the world, are unreal indeed. So, it's not the world that is unreal; unreal is this sense of a "me" present in this experience: "me and the world." This duality, this separation has no Reality.
So you, as a separate entity, are not Real. However, the world as an appearance in this Consciousness appears and disappears – so, it has no Reality in itself as something separate – but as this Consciousness, the world has the Reality of this Consciousness. There is no world separate from this Consciousness.
So, the world doesn't say "I'm here." It's an appearance, an unfolding of this Consciousness. Here, it's in your interest, it's in our interest, to investigate the nature, the ephemeral and illusory nature of this false center, which is this false "me." This is not the Truth about who You are, about What You are. This "me," this "sense of person," this personality is a set of memories, a set of remembrances; it's all a story formulated, positioned, trusted, and established by thought.
Thus, you are not Real. It's not the world that is unreal, it's the idea of "someone" present. It's also interesting to tell you here that, this idea, this belief is, actually, a little more than a belief. It's like a present energy, an energy converted by thought, the idea of an identity present. This idea, this energy, this egoic sense, is the cause of every conflict. It's important to say that.
Every problem in your life is based on this false center. Your Life, as Consciousness, doesn't carry conflicts, doesn't carry problems, doesn't carry suffering, unlike this false center, this false "me." It carries conflict indeed; it carries problems indeed. The good news is that it is not real.
In an act of despair, this false identity, which is this ego, this "sense of person," wants to get rid of the world. The problem is not the world. The problem is not life. The problem is not what happens. The problem is the illusion for the one all this is happening, for the one all this is occurring. This egoic positioning is something totally false, totally illusory.
So, this is the illusion. The illusion, I repeat, is not the presence of the world; the illusion is the presence of a false "me," of a false entity present in this experience: "I am in the body, in the experience of the world." This is a belief; this is an idea… I've just said, this is a totally false, totally illusory energy, which is established due to the non-verification of this movement, which is the movement of thought.
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