What are the main illusions in all the fields of life?

The Sanatan Dharma calls it Maya, delusion. That the creation appears substantial is an illusion. The physical universe that can be seen and touched and known only through the senses makes up only about three per cent of the Mass of the Universe. What is unseen and unknowable via the senses is the Substance. "I Alone Am Substance" says the Lord.

Created to experience the Creation from the state of bliss/joy/peace/love, we chose to attempt to experience bliss/joy/peace/love from the creation instead. The creation doesn't have those qualities to give. They are our nature that has been forgotten and so we suffer attempting to gain them from the world. Original sin,,,, turning outward instead of remaining within.

We are troubled by our outlook,,,, therefor, look within.

If from one perspective A is real and Not A is an illusion, then from another perspective A is an illusion and Not A is real. So it's very peaceful stepping back from that and not leaving out either but not needing either. While there's A and Not A, with them being opposite and contradictory it gets very complicated with stress and sadness and denial running around. And when people have experienced it enough and don't want it any more they step back and when they step back they know how to step forward and help someone else step back. There's a complexity of stress and sadness and denial, so there aren't any set formulae. So there aren't any laws, but basically it revolves around stepping back, so everything is real and we know what it is. "Illusion" is just transitional. The great massive reality is empty and calm, but love and truth come through to clear any debris that's arisen on the very very thin outer surface, so calm and awareness spread.

Even in the massive emptiness and calm, we are still connected with and integrated with everything all the time, so it's like some kind of washing machine cycle with things being cleaned from the middle of the drum outwards as we recognise what the clothes are, and the lighter ones that aren't so full of mud get nearer the centre. At some point there's a massive lump of hardened mud gets thrown into the middle and starts spoiling all the clothes, and we have to suddenly get tough and get hold of it round all sides and throw it out again, because that one belongs outside of the machine in it's place where all the mud collects eventually.

It's all experience. A person can be rich in anything, but it's a bit of a nuisance and a burden caring one way or another about most of those things. But the love one is unavoidable, because although the middle of the washing machine may be subtle and hidden, the love comes from there in one way or another and it's what washes the clothes. We can't make it up or deny it; it's just the way it is. And it's subtle nearer the centre of the washing machine because the clothes don't spin around so fast, but the love washing powder poured in the middle speeds up it's action on the way around and outward.

And the noodles and spaghetti aren't so lumpy and tangled up nearer the middle of the washing machine. They are more just part of the mud around the outside, because the middle of the machine is massive and just keeps getting bigger.

The washing machine doesn't have built in obsolescence, that would be part of the mud and the noodles and spaghetti, and it's got an automatic continuous efficiency upgrade specification with an unlimited supply of washing powder and the middle is so calm and so big that it fits in all the clothes. And when we understand it, we even understand what the mud and the noodles and spaghetti are there for because we wouldn't understand it without them, so they are clean as well.

And the kids can have cleaner clothes to begin with, so they can get even cleaner clothes and a deeper understanding of the continuously improving washing machine.

This reality is ALL an illusion. If you're asking what issues sink us deeper into this illusion, like you and most of the world, I think it's money, relationships, and for some of us, seeking the answers to the age old question of who or what created all of this.

I've come to feel that earth is a school and we're here to learn, nothing more, nothing less. But lessons are not always for or easy, but that's the idea... to experience & to learn. The illusions are meant to make us forget our original state, otherwise, what would be the point? But eventually, we all remember... we remember that we are spirit creatures inhabiting material bodies and at that point, the illusion starts to feel more and more unreal and the thought of transcending this realm seems pretty cool!

A great poet once wrote:

"and daily I see my sisters & brothers

forgetting all about each other

forgetting all about the stars

forgetting what we really are"

~ namaste ~

Freud identifies illusion as being mostly associated with religion, art, and philosophy, but he also acknowledges the hypothesis that science itself could be an illusion, although he rejects it. In a deeper sense the greatest illusion would be the belief in the happiness and goodness of human nature. This pessimism, or realism, is first associated with the illusion that lasting sexual satisfaction is possible ("'Civilized' Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness," 1908d) and that social rules should be modified to procure happiness for individuals. Freud then assumes the position of a defender of a realist position, which includes negativity instead of ignoring it: "Because we destroy illusion we are accused of endangering ideals" (1910d, p. 147). In fact the only ideal he defends is that of truth. He further distinguishes two types of illusions: those that are not harmful since the illusion is obvious, and those that are dangerous because they take the place of an objective apprehension of reality (philosophy, ideology, and especially religion).

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Well, as long as you are sleeping everything is an illusion. Most of us are sleeping, even while awake. And the illusions you see while awake and yet asleep are worse than those you see while really asleep in bed. Once you know the truth the illusion disappears and you see reality. Actually reality is not so much to be seen as to be experienced. You can only know the truth once you have actually perceived it with your own senses, and that means experience. And unless and until you actually experience anything, it remains an illusion.

One illusion only. If you trust only your five senses then you may be deluded in money, education, love, associates, death, law, social status and God. You will need also to put your trust in other enlightened rational individuals whom you trust. Even so some illusions will remain because reality is far stranger than we can imagine.

What are the main illusions in all the fields of life?

~~~ That there ARE 'illusions'!

Everything is Real!

Everything is True!

We know the best choice or best course of action, these are usually obvious, but frequently end up doing what is sub optimal or even wrong when faced with a dilemma. We then convince ourselves that the wrong thing was right.

Another of the main illusions that we put up with is the one that someone else is responsible for our suffering.

The primary mistake humans make is thinking that we have time.

Do not wait for the future, do it now, for nobody is guaranteed another minute of life.

What, you want opium soup? I don't understand.