Illusion of Reality.

Does thinking really serve any purpose? Honestly, we have had great philosophers, books all revealing the ultimate truth about life and living, yet I don't see any of us changing. We are still the same, fearful about our future, hanging on to our pasts, and still believing in our weird sense of way that we are immortal.
Wisdom is applied knowledge, notes taken when life was handing us out our lessons and of course implementing them.
Why is it that our minds jump ahead of us, creating dreams and nightmares? In many ways we live our lives in our minds. Every nightmare, every dream is after all a part of you. It might be imagination for others, but who is to say that the fear or the joy in your head was not real for you? Then again who is to say life and what we are experiencing in the moment is real.
The perfect way to live life would be to just experience all that is happening as a bystander, just an observer.Except for a few sage, most of us still struggle to just experience life. We label it, we add our own little stories, embroidering it with our own fears and desires.
The more we look forward to something, the more we get disappointed. The fault of course lies in our own thinking. In our minds we have created a perfect scenario, a scenario that has been directed by us without any basis for facts or reality.
Fact remains we can create whatever heaven or hell in our head, action in real life is what matters in the end.
 A Koan to think about .......
Once Chuang Tzu dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Chuang Tzu. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Chuang Tzu. But he didn't know if he was Chuang Tzu who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu. Between Chuang Tzu and a butterfly there must be some distinction! This is called the Transformation of Things.