It's like playing with a fake steering wheel and thinking we're driving. Either we self delude and match our movements to the outside world, or we angrily try to steer away from what we don't like ineffectively.
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E.g. thinking about the world through the lens of Victims and Oppressors. This specific sankhara is called the "Hell Realm" is buddhism b/c it reinterprets signs of how to get out as tricks and attacks.
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"It is said that the most tragic aspect of the hell realm is that none of the gates are barred."
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So put everything together and you get: The mind has ideals which creates nihilism the more we realize our ideals can never be. We come up w/ complex schemes to manifest our ideals but they don't work so we try even harder.
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If we do the opposite and push less hard, we realize that we've been stuck in a vicious cycle of confusion. Instead of trying to buy and decorate the perfect house we start tearing it down. We realize the idea that we needed a perfect house was just one of the confusions.
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These activities used to suck up a lot of energy and attention which can now be used to enjoy things. Bc everyone else still sees things as related to houses they see you as living in a happy spiritual house and want to know how to get their own so that they can be spiritual too
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