making it up

Getting caught up in our sense impressions is getting caught up in judgement about them, getting caught in the never ending matrix of comparisons and desire and looking for completion in the ever unfolding relative world.

That is the very cause of suffering, trying to be complete in what by nature is incomplete and constantly changing.

How can we find satisfaction in things that are constantly ending? ...

So who is the deceiver that tricks us? is it the Buddhist demon Mara? is it the temptations of the Christian Devil or is it the Hindu idea of the great trickster Maya ? Well they could all be symbols of what seems to be just the limited apparatus of the human mechanism.

We are not designed to witness the totality of reality, it’s just too enormous, our brains are designed to filter out most of reality so what is left is the bare essentials to survive in our limited dimension. It’s ourselves that conjure up illusory appearances with our own minds and then believe them. Or put more crudely people tend to make shit up and then believe it to be true.

people tend to make shit up and then believe it to be true

http://www.thewayofmeditation.com.au/blog/how-to-be-a-master-of-the-cosmic-illusion/