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Originally Posted by Ground
Nicely said but that does not reveal whether it's a rope or a snake. 
Or do you think you can clear the uncertainty about whether rope or snake with the auto-suggestion 'I am just an illusion. I am just an illusion. I am just an illusion. ...' ?  |
The fictitious "me" is the fictitious "snake" that causes suffering. Auto-suggestion or faking it won't succeed.
Seeing...seeing clearly...is the key. What is unseen & unknown (i.e. ignorance) is what keeps one feeling trapped (bond).
Enlightenment/awakening is called liberation. We think we are making progress in the process of freeing ourselves from bondage…but awakening (i.e. liberation) is realizing you were never in bondage in the first place. Upon awakening, you clearly realize that all of that time you spent in the process of freeing yourself from bondage was the delusion of bondage itself.
How to free oneself? By clearly seeing the bonds are illusion (self created mental fictions). All you can do is see...anything else reinforces the illusion of bondage.