Matt Fradd
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Our existence is an illusion because we're an illusion.
What was that a response to?
It was a response to suffering.
The Buddhist view is that suffering results from desire.
Desire results from the illusion that we exist.
The solution to that problem is to get rid of that illusion.
It's annihilation.
People think that nirvana is bliss.
No, nirvana is you don't exist anymore.
The illusion that you are even here having experiences of happiness or unhappiness is gone.
But if we aren't even really real, how can you recommend to that somebody?
You'll be better off if you believe this.
Well, who is the you if the you is an illusion?
Who is the you who's having that?
Now, there is one interesting thing about this.
He did comment on the fact that people, he distinguished these different things that he called different philosophies.
They're not different philosophies.
They don't claim different things.
They all claim the universe is absurd.
But he distinguished them according to the emotional response that you have to them.