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Would you agree with this statement??

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I've been thinkin about the phrase Form is Emptiness and Emptiness is form. I'm wondering if other Buddhists agree with this phrase: "Reality is Illusion, Illusion is Reality."
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Sounds a bit like "A rose is a rose is a rose" to me. :smile:
I think, the statement is correct, but the term "Reality" is misleading possibly.
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Tirisilex wrote: Sun Oct 15, 2017 1:30 am I've been thinkin about the phrase Form is Emptiness and Emptiness is form. I'm wondering if other Buddhists agree with this phrase: "Reality is Illusion, Illusion is Reality."
Reality is illusion - the first part is true but it is referring to conventional, consensual reality. Illusion is Reality is not the same as Emptiness is Form. Emptiness != Illusion. Emptiness can be seen as the space where all things manifest through dependant arising (however emptiness is not exactly that space - so things manifest in space and time because they are empty and through dependant arising).

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Tirisilex wrote: Sun Oct 15, 2017 1:30 am "Reality is Illusion, Illusion is Reality."
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Tirisilex wrote: Sun Oct 15, 2017 1:30 am I've been thinkin about the phrase Form is Emptiness and Emptiness is form. I'm wondering if other Buddhists agree with this phrase: "Reality is Illusion, Illusion is Reality."
Train wreck. ....that bit of the dharma is actually trying to get us to quiet the mind, particularly the part that would like to slice and dice reality in a conceptual schema. Reality is an illusion is something like pop art:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/31/c6/76/31c6 ... ne-art.jpg

This bit of the dharma is about the nature of the basic space of phenomena, which relates to interdependence and the idea that all that really exists (with stability) is dependent origination a.k.a. emptiness. That this is the only stable aspect of form.
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Tirisilex wrote: Sun Oct 15, 2017 1:30 am I've been thinking about the phrase Form is Emptiness and Emptiness is form. I'm wondering if other Buddhists agree with this phrase: "Reality is Illusion, Illusion is Reality."
The idea of an illusion is only meaningful if there is reality with which to contrast it. It everything were illusion, then there would be no sense in talking about 'illusion'; illusion exists precisely because it is not what it appears, so, not real. (''Trying to make it real - compared to what?', as a song once said.)

My take is, deluded cognition takes things to be what they're not, and thereby engenders illusion. When things are seen as they are, then the illusion is dispersed. But in either case, it's the same things that are being seen. So there's no difference in what is, only in what sees it - deluded cognition is trapped by illusion where enlightened cognition is not.
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Firstly the mountain is just the mountain and finally the mountain is the mountain again. Return to reality. No more slogging through illusions or paddling through the sea of emptiness. Reality (Tathata) just as it is.
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White Lotus wrote: Tue Oct 17, 2017 5:24 pm Firstly the mountain is just the mountain and finally the mountain is the mountain again. Return to reality. No more slogging through illusions or paddling through the sea of emptiness. Reality (Tathata) just as it is.
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Tirisilex wrote: Sun Oct 15, 2017 1:30 am I've been thinkin about the phrase Form is Emptiness and Emptiness is form. I'm wondering if other Buddhists agree with this phrase: "Reality is Illusion, Illusion is Reality."
no reality, no illusion
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Also, form and emptiness aren't opposites contradicting each other, or opposites held simultaneously in paradox. What they negate is the habituated misapprehension of phenomena, of experience, which leads to suffering and rebirth.
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If what is real and non-real are both absent, absent from before grasping mind....then what?
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I don't know if I'd agree with that
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