Who you are

True reality is already here, in fact, it has never left.  However, as we approach it with our ideas of what we expect it to be like, we become more confused.  The first road eventually branches off many, many times.  At this point, we are more lost and confused than ever.

Then the Buddha’s teaching comes along.  It talks about awakening to something that even Māra, the Buddhist devil, couldn’t recognize.  Little did Māra know that the Buddha gave up perceiver and perceiving (dual knowing).  He entered a transcendent state in which there was no division or constructs.

Māra, was in a way, a god of the six senses which required a perceiver and perceiving whether it was visual, auditory or even mental (manas) which includes the imagination and intellect.

Even if we take a voyage into our own mind we are more like the people in Plato's Cave facing an artificially constructed world, while the true light is always behind them, in such a way that they are unable turn around and see it. 

Our inner thoughts and emotions arise as do our mental images and what our various senses perceive.  We are facing an illusion not true reality.  Even our fleshy body we inhabit is an illusion.  Transcending illusion is extremely difficult.  Most will be unable to transcend illusion.  Nevertheless, it is important to start the journey of transcendence, of going beyond all illusion where you realize, finally, who you are.

Comments

[Jung]

"Transcending illusion is extremely difficult. "

Absolutely. Most sentients are doomed to never escape the formative grip of their own genetic matrix. The matrix per se is never constrained to a set of parents, or host, but an ever regenerating blueprint according to accumulated & stored conditions.

Buddha made it clear that it took a supernatural power to break free from said matrix which included manas, the most difficult part of this illustrious algorithm. To produce, sustain and use said power could only be done once the awakened bodhisattva realized the true source of its origin and used it to break free until complete Buddhahood (Nirvana).