<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2BAth7mQkw" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Loneliness</a> is the memory of love. The memory of being selfless together, complete, without greed, hate or delusion. Chasing that memory into the Matrix, Neo-like, to escape dystopia can give you a simulation of love. But then you log out to loneliness. Did that work? No? How about do it again? No? How about a new perspective?</p>

<p>Unpeel the loneliness and look within, quietly, gently.</p>

<p>"In the middle of <em>lonely</em> is <strong>One</strong>"--Ven. Ajahn Brahm.</p>

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2018-07-19T23:17:14.480Z
2018-07-19T23:17:14.480Z
OyaMist
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  <p>Im wondering if its better to keep with the illusion? Non illusion is a lonely place> Isnt there something positive to it? Hope of a soul?</p>
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<p>Non-illusion is apparently not for the faint of heart. But once one's crossed to the other side, there's no way one'd want to come back. In <a href="https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.075x.than.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MN 75</a> the Buddha used quite a graphic simile about a leper finding pleasure by cauterizing his body over a pit of glowing embers. But once cured of the disease, there'd be no way he could derive any pleasure by doing that again. One still sees non-illusion as boring, cold, lonely, etc. only because one's still subjected to the <a href="https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.049.than.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Four Perversions of Perception</a>.</p>

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2018-07-20T04:16:43.783Z
2018-07-20T04:16:43.783Z
santa100
<p>Like the man in the matrix. Whats his name? Played by Keanu Reeves. Im wondering if its better to keep with the illusion? Non illusion is a lonely place> Isnt there something positive to it? Hope of a soul?</p>

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Isnt the illusion better? of a self?
# Isnt the illusion better? of a self?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-07-19)

Like the man in the matrix. Whats his name? Played by Keanu Reeves. Im wondering if its better to keep with the illusion? Non illusion is a lonely place> Isnt there something positive to it? Hope of a soul?

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-07-19. Score: 1

[Loneliness](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2BAth7mQkw) is the memory of love. The memory of being selfless together, complete, without greed, hate or delusion. Chasing that memory into the Matrix, Neo-like, to escape dystopia can give you a simulation of love. But then you log out to loneliness. Did that work? No? How about do it again? No? How about a new perspective?

Unpeel the loneliness and look within, quietly, gently.

"In the middle of *lonely* is **One**"--Ven. Ajahn Brahm.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2018-07-20. Score: 0

> Im wondering if its better to keep with the illusion? Non illusion is a lonely place> Isnt there something positive to it? Hope of a soul?

Non-illusion is apparently not for the faint of heart. But once one's crossed to the other side, there's no way one'd want to come back. In [MN 75](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.075x.than.html) the Buddha used quite a graphic simile about a leper finding pleasure by cauterizing his body over a pit of glowing embers. But once cured of the disease, there'd be no way he could derive any pleasure by doing that again. One still sees non-illusion as boring, cold, lonely, etc. only because one's still subjected to the [Four Perversions of Perception](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.049.than.html).


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