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Originally Posted by blazer1  I see the Matrix is a matter of intepretation.
What I took from the Matrix was the fact most of us are stuck in a world of delusion. We are not enlightened to the way things really are. We are componsed of Ego, and we are controlled by the Ego.
When I talk about the Ego, I mean the animal instincts which still exists in the self-realised man.
When I step out of the Ego, and view the Matrix (the world deluded by Ego) ... I am then wiser.
This was what Buddha was talking about ... dont be a slave to the ego, be the master of the Ego. Neo is the master of his Ego.
Don't you agree?
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In the end, (and qoute me on this) ... we have six senses, five senses from the primal past, and the sixth sense which comes from imagination.
These six senses together with technology (making it seven senses) are not hardly enough to properly describe (rather speculate) what this thing called Life and the Universe is.
I guess we are all talking about the same thing, but the problem is in words, and mode of thought we use in our description. Some pose potential problems (as with Christianity) and some dont. |
The Matrix is based on the Hero Myth that Joseph Cambell designed. Star Wars was based on the same plot. You probably already knew that. You sound like someone who would be into these things. The Hero Myth is a story that can be found in almost every culture, the story of Christ being one of them.
Christ, Buddha, Neo, Skywalker: these are archetypes in the collective unconscious. The most important archetype in my opinion because it is the image of God within you or the seed of enlightenment sprouting into full bloom.
The ego, IMO, is the conditioned self. The person you are told to be by society and I would agree with you that our instincts and senses are manipulated by society. I'm not one to say you need to get rid of the ego, rather transmute it into the above archetype... however you envision that. All of our instincts can be transmuted for a higher cause. The sex drive for example can be re-routed into creative endeavors.