![]() If you feel your experience makes you different and better than other people, you have chosen the blue pill: you continue to live in an illusion. (Please note that I am using the red pill/blue pill imagery as it was originally presented in the movie, not as it has been co-opted by certain groups to advance their views of male and female oppression.) ![]() For Buddhist practitioners, that choice is equivalent to whether you use a glimpse of what you actually are to begin a journey into the unknown or you use it to define and solidify a sense of self. In the movie The Matrix, the protagonist, after finding out that he lives in an illusory world, is offered the choice between taking a red pill and continuing to learn about reality or taking a blue pill and returning to an illusion of life. But it is precisely here that you have to make a choice. That is freedom-freedom from the tyranny of reaction. In that groundlessness, you know that it is possible to experience whatever life throws at you, and not react. For most people, there is a feeling of deep joy and extraordinary freedom, and a humble appreciation th at that experience or shift is only the start of a journey. The utter groundlessness of experience, when you know it directly, not conceptually, is profoundly meaningful, and it affects people in different ways. ![]() The experience of mind nature is, for almost everyone, a turning point in their practice. ![]()
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