When it is said that we live in an illusion many smart people would say, "well jump off a building and survive then". The problem with that is primarily that those people are not only smart but they know they are smart, hence they jump to a hasty conclusion that they understood what is meant by "reality is an illusion" and therefore feel competent to remark about jumping of a building, thinking they are even more clever because no one else did same stupid remark, hence everyone else are even more stupid since they did't even managed to make such a simple argument such as jump of a building.
The main thing is to understand what a person is saying before starting commenting. There are few out there that literally do claim that nothing exists it is all an illusion, you can walk through walls, jump from high places and survive e.t.c. but those people are very few, and if you find such person, argument "then do it" is valid.
What needs to be understood is that when it is said that reality is an illusion, what is meant is not that nothing exists, but that people live in an illusion. That is for example, you do something, let say play a game, watch TV, work, or anything else, and you loose touch with the reality, you kind of wake up from whatever you were doing and are surprised about how much time has passed, hence you were in whatever you were doing, away from reality, and woke up from it.
In the same way as above, we do things every day without thinking, without knowing why we do them, we do it because we always have done them, because we need to do them, and so on. This is just the same thing as get caught in a game, TV or work, just forgetting about anything around you, until you stop and realize for example how much time has passed, or that you are hungry e.t.c.
Therefore it is said that reality people live in is an illusion, because they are trapped in it, doing things they no longer know why, having problems they don't know why, e.t.c. what one needs to do then is to wake up. Hence when people are talking about reality being an illusion one must start thinking, and perhaps even learning.
Reasons to pursuit awakening are many ranging from simple things to glorious experiences that you will chaise you whole life, whatever reason there are few practical ones that can be seen as the least you can get, even if you don't get unity with universe or whatever else some guru promise you, and those will be illustrated with a game example:
First of all, you can play for hours and loose, get frustrated and angry. To improve your game you can try different things as you play and it might even improve you game, but you can also leave the game illusion, sit back and think about the game, in order to realize what you are doing wrong.
In order to improve your game, you realize as above what you did wrong, but don't go back to playing, but first now when you know what is wrong create a plan how to make it right from where you are in the game, hence sometime you can continue where you were, just making it right from now on, sometimes you must load a saved game loosing some progress (in the wrong direction), and sometimes you have an unpleasant realization when you must abandon everything and start a new game.
Sometimes you might stop playing, think about the game and realize that there is no way to play it much better then I did, that was a perfect game.
Other time you might stop playing and realize that you wasted many hours and really are behind in you work that you need to do, and shut down the game altogether.
In short, to make an effective change, you must realize what is wrong.
To be happy with what you do you must realize that it is right.
To do so in a game, you must stop playing and think about the game.
To do so in life you must wake up from the illusion.
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