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Rizwan Virk

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2151 - Rizwan Virk

So that's one of the reasons why.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2151 - Rizwan Virk

But there are consequences within the game.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2151 - Rizwan Virk

And for the characters in the game.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2151 - Rizwan Virk

For the NPCs that you're killing.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2151 - Rizwan Virk

Those are all real consequences within the game.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2151 - Rizwan Virk

But when you look at it from outside the game.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2151 - Rizwan Virk

And so like the Eastern mystics have been telling us this and turns out in the Judeo-Christian Islamic traditions, the Abrahamic religions, they've also been telling us this, that the world is Maya and they use metaphors back then.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2151 - Rizwan Virk

So, you know, all these religions came about a couple thousand years ago.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2151 - Rizwan Virk

And so they had to use metaphors.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2151 - Rizwan Virk

that were understood by the people back then, right?

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2151 - Rizwan Virk

And so they used whatever, the metaphor of the dream was a key metaphor, that the world is like a dream.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2151 - Rizwan Virk

Or that the soul puts on the body like a set of clothes and that when you die, you take off these clothes and then you're back to the soul, whatever that happens to be.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2151 - Rizwan Virk

They don't really define what that is.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2151 - Rizwan Virk

In fact, they use the exact same metaphor like in the Bhagavad Gita.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2151 - Rizwan Virk

They use this clothing metaphor and then Rumi, who's become popular in the West and was a

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2151 - Rizwan Virk

was an Islamic Sufi, you know, a poet, but also a mystic.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2151 - Rizwan Virk

He used the exact same phrase, right?

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2151 - Rizwan Virk

He said, you put on the body, you put like a series of clothes.