If you have seen the films The Matrix or Inception, it may be easy for you to accept the fact that it is possible that we are living in some kind of dream world and that what we see can never be the truth.

The truth is an eternal secret, hidden behind everything we perceive.

But we should know that all images or other phenomena never leave the "mirror" the "TV screen" the "stage" ...... , even though we can never see the "stage" and we can never call it God or the Tao with absolute certainty.

（When I call it “stage”, it is kind of a concept about space, but life is about time instead. So pay more attention in the background of time/life. You can feel it on your way while walking or riding a train. And more obviously you can hear it while listening to a song with long tune. )

There is a saying in China, "We do not know that there is a Tao, just as the fish do not know that there is water".

Why the fish does not know there is water, because it never leaves the water.

Do you know what else you can never leave? Yourself.

One can never escape from oneself, although sometimes one longs for that peace.

But it seems to me that the real cause of anxiety is that we cannot see or find the true nature of ourselves.

Why do we hate ourselves? Because we feel they are not the real us, the true us.

The real me is not the body, nor is it some thought, nor is it a state without thought, nor is it some special mystical spiritual experience.

Therefore, you are the truth. Or rather, the real you and the ultimate truth are the same ultimate secret, hidden forever by all that we perceive or experience.

No one can reach the ultimate, including me. (All you can do is have a belief that your true nature is ultimate) Don't be deceived by what you see, no matter how brilliant!

No matter how hard we try, the plot of a show will never be the way television works.

People are deluded by what they see.

Water doesn't know it's water. Energies don't know they are energies. Power doesn't know they are power. Darkness doesn't know they are darkness, blinded by light. Heaven above is just a piece of wallpaper. We are the real heaven, the true heaven, where everything is inside us and not outside. The wind cannot blow the light. The light cannot kill all the darkness. (First the darkness, then the light, and the light is always inside the darkness.) I don't have much to say. But I have a great deal of patience.

All we need to do is to have faith in ourselves (our unknown true self), whatever it is, it is always there. (If there is an "author", some kind of ultimate power, it must always be there for us too).

Yet within every yang is always a yin, and every belief/hope is based on doubt/fear.

If you are already 100% sure of something, there is no need of a belief.

So the real ultimate war between light and darkness is within us, not outside.

Mind yourself first, talk, even argue, don’t curse ,fight, even war.

(If necessary, for some kind of emergency, we can bet on a sports match. Every life is unique, not just a statistic.)

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Most people look forward to world world war 3 unconsciously.

This is because they have been educated in a different (but practically identical) system of war preparation, where fighting for resources is unquestionable.

For example, hardly anyone questions the logic in "The Avengers' Infinite War" or "The Three Bodies", even though they have been taught the law of conservation of energy separately in school.

One would think they could use a war to settle the ultimate choice between faiths. (At first it seemed like other issues, such as "who deserve all sorts of resources")

If the law of conservation of energy is correct.

No energy gets consumed, it just keeps shifting or transferring between different forms.

So, much science fiction is wrong.

The speed (kinetic energy) of anything (such as a spacecraft) cannot be escalated infinitely.

That's why the speed of light seems to be the same for all.

In a way, we can say that life is also a form of energy.

Therefore, there is a limit to the number of any species.

There is no need for any war to reduce the population for fearing that there will not be enough energy to consume.

War is not that great at all.

In order to adapt to the various war machines and try to be part of them, people are losing the ability to remain independent (especially to think independently) and their talents are diminishing generation after generation. War does not make us better.

People often imagine the environment as a colosseum. The environment chooses those who suit them, not the strong. It is the weak (the simple-minded) who suit their environment (and become part of the war machine).

The Western push for individuality was an illusion and the reality was that the family could not be regulated into a screw or a brick to the detriment of industrialisation.

In the film Shawshank, there is a word called "institutionalisation".

People are divided into different prisons of the mind.

Not only are they used to these walls, but they are born into them, a brick in the wall, and they even enjoy it so much that they are willing to sacrifice everything for words like "glory" (or, ironically, "freedom").

All similar military governing disguised by slogans.

If people keep ignoring their inner loss of themselves and unconsciously clinging to various images (e.g. the body) or concepts (e.g. the Holy Name), World War III and the end of the world is inevitable, and it may have already begun in Europe in the conflict near the borders of Catholicism and Orthodoxy.

Any world will eventually be ended. This does not matter. For, life is an energy which will be recycled, which means that after the death of a life or an entire world there will be a new world.

But it is a shame that a beautiful world like Earth is being ended in a war of names/concepts. What can we do to prepare for it? We should do our best to stop it.

Be aware of all kinds of slogans.

If we are facing the end of the world.

Then it is not a catastrophe from outside, but from the "trap of self-knowledge" and the "trap of modernisation"/"trap of standardisation of extreme development (war machine)".

The trap of self-consciousness is, simply put, that having an "I" obscures the true self (losing oneself) and that one inevitably becomes anxious, nervous and distressed to the point of insanity, often resorting to conceptualised nomenclature.

The so-called "modernisation trap" is that the war machine, which has existed since ancient times, has been given an extreme boost by the application of mathematics in the standardisation of parts and components, and that the so-called nomenclature wars or battles have become increasingly intense and have approached the "singularity" due to the propaganda and ideological struggles of the respective unifying ideas.

Modern finance is based on credit (trust in one's own system or government), so these wars of ideas are extremely important.

Money can generate money and it is not necessarily the elite. The one who born with power is not the smartest either.

The 1% is not necessarily capable of conspiracy, but it is easy to reach a tacit agreement.

10% often mistake themselves as 1%.

Be aware of the various slogans, including "freedom first" "my country first" "me first" "xxx(whatever it is ) first" "weeds rock the world" "we deserve it, let it end".

Why do we have to follow any of them or any other supposed prophecy?

Sorry for disturbing. (Neither side is free, they both blocked my statement.

(We are just bricks on different walls, when in fact the walls are the same).

Eve did not lie, there was a serpent, which is an allegory that talks about a sense of continuity such as time or memory. Without such feelings, there are no conditions for the formation of self-awareness or self-knowledge.

Humans are the most complex animals on the planet. If your body is too simple to perceive your environment clearly, you will find it difficult to perceive the movement and change of everything in front of you.

Without sensing moving or changing images, it is difficult to form the concept or idea of a mirror/screen/stage/platform (self-awareness or self-knowledge), which is often referred to as the ego.

The opposition of what can sense and what is sensed, the opposition of mirror image, the opposition of I and non-I, is called objectified thinking，which is growing up with self-knowledge,

both of which end up trapping us into a dilemma. Either be a miserable sensitive person or a happy ignorant beast. This is why drugs are everywhere(including digital ones and “spiritual” ones) .

Every pair of eyes is different, and we see ourselves differently from how others see us. This is why we feel alone.

The reflection of light takes time.

So we can never see us in the mirror as we are now, all we see is history. You have changed.

If the change is so rapid and you are so sensitive that you suddenly find a face in the mirror that seems to be a stranger whose facial expression does not match your current emotions, you too may go crazy.

Somehow we all lose ourselves.

Clinging to any attachment (including concepts) such as the body, mind, thoughtless states, spiritual experiences, the Tao, God, Śūnyatā, etc., ........ that can never satisfy our desire to find the true Self or the real us. For they are all like images in a mirror, television set or other stage or platform. What we really desire is the 'mirror' and not 'any image', so how can we be satisfied?

You don't have to do anything but realise that the real you or the true self is there all the time.

It's like you're looking for a horse on the back of a horse. Once you realise that you have been riding it from the beginning (or before the beginning) you will immediately stop looking.

Yet within every yang is always a yin, and every belief/hope is based on doubt/fear.

If you are already 100% sure of something, there is no need of a belief.

So the real ultimate war between light and darkness is within us, not outside.

The creator (author) could be a monkey who is typing at random. We just happen to be living in a readable novel in which logic seems to be at work, but not really, and it is the monkey who creates all the illusions that is really at work.

It doesn't matter who the author is. (It is the eternal ultimate question and secret, hidden not only behind all that we sense, but also by all the concepts we imagine, including the Tao, God and emptiness.

One might think that the creator (the author) is so important that all meaning depends on him. But is the meaning of an author complete if he has no readers, especially the author of a detective novel? You might even ask: does he really have any meaning, no matter how big he is, how long he lives, or how great he is in any way?

I asked my son the other day, when he was a little boy, "Is the sky blue?" ." No, at night it's black." He's clever." If there was a superman whose eyes could and always did see infrared or ultraviolet light, would the sky be blue or black for him?" Without the eyes of life, colour means nothing to the sky.

Why should we doubt the meaning of life, why should we not doubt the meaning of the universe, or even the meaning of the creator. No matter how small we may be, no matter how short our lives may be.

Lao Tzu: The sky/heaven and the earth (representing the Mother who created all things) are without mercy.

In order to fulfill the author's meaning, the reader must be ignorant.

A truth-teller (the fortune-teller who is always right) would be a spoiler who ruin everything.

Ignorance of our true nature is the source of our stress, anxiety, misery and suffering. Is it worth it? Depends on how much beauty, joy, love you can find in your life (sometimes just a simple blue sky can move you). If very little, you may deeply question why you were created.

We, Homo sapiens, have used ideas/concepts to organise various war machines and exterminate many species. Maybe we deserve to use it killing each other. (Cf. Homo sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind).

But it is a shame to leave a marvellous universe without anyone to appreciate it. (Allow me to assume that aliens would make the same mistake as we do).

Water does not know that she is water, and darkness does not know that he is darkness. When a man is seeking the light, he is blinded by dreams of various lights.

Most serious or intense busy people are dreaming, while the awakened are at peace because they are comfortable with the darkness that does not know the ultimate truth.

All we need to do is to have faith in ourselves (our unknown true self), whatever it is, it is always there. (If there is an "author", some kind of ultimate power, it must always be there for us too).

Yet within every yang is always a yin, and every belief/hope is based on doubt/fear.

If you are already 100% sure of something, there is no need of a belief.

So the real ultimate war between light and darkness is within us, not outside.

Mind yourself first, talk, even argue, don’t curse ,fight, even war.

(If necessary, for some kind of emergency, we can bet on a sports match. Every life is unique, not just a statistic.)