Metaverse and Buddhism?
I just wondered what will be the state of Buddhism when the Metaverse becomes an everyday reality.
It is possible one day we will consume food or enjoy sex wearing a VR headset or similar gadget.
We listen to a Dhamma ssermon in a metacast. Perhaps the monk will also be wearing a VR set.
Perhaps the Dhamma Wheel discussion in a Metaverse and we interact with each other using our own Avatar.
To me, Metaverse is the Bhahiya Sutta version of the Mara.
Will metaverse be the ultimate human experience?
Metaverse and Buddhism?
Metaverse and Buddhism?
“As the lamp consumes oil, the path realises Nibbana”
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Re: Metaverse and Buddhism?
The ultimate human experience is "real life".
This metaverse/Virtual-world thing is just another one of Mara's creations to distract people, to give them a thousand different things to think about instead of doing anything wholesome.
Just like the internet, some of it can be dhamma, but about 70% will be porn.
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I better enjoy lucid dream than play metaverse game
I may be slow learner but im at least learning...
Re: Metaverse and Buddhism?
I feel like THIS is the metaverse.
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Yes it's really ridiculous.
People have trouble enough focusing on This reality.
I blame Dissatisfaction.
I feel like our ONENESS just keeps getting shattered into infinite worlds.
For example having this life is not enough we need to create fictional realities in our minds with books and televisision shows and then to make things even more complicated..the characters in those fictional worlds create characters in their minds and create their own problems...
Madness.
People have trouble enough focusing on This reality.
I blame Dissatisfaction.
I feel like our ONENESS just keeps getting shattered into infinite worlds.
For example having this life is not enough we need to create fictional realities in our minds with books and televisision shows and then to make things even more complicated..the characters in those fictional worlds create characters in their minds and create their own problems...
Madness.
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Re: Metaverse and Buddhism?
It's an attempt at escapism and like most of the more refined pleasures of the human realm, a weak and very limited attempt at experiencing the Divine world's for people who are basically materialists and don't believe or know about them, although they don't fully realize that's what they are trying to do.
As it evolves there may yet be some good that comes of it if it can get people to reflect on the ephemeral nature of reality also as being like a metaverse, but for the most part it will be an entertainment and distraction even further from reality.Yes, there is no metaverse that will ever touch this and its at least related to your own psychology and can be of benefit, you can meditate in the lucid dream state.
"Therein monks, that Dimension should be known wherein the eye ceases and the perception of forms fades away...the ear... the nose...the tongue... the body ceases and the perception of touch fades away...
That Dimension should be known wherein mentality ceases and the perception of mind-objects fades away.
That Dimension should be known; that Dimension should be known."
(S. IV. 98) - The Dimension beyond the All
That Dimension should be known wherein mentality ceases and the perception of mind-objects fades away.
That Dimension should be known; that Dimension should be known."
(S. IV. 98) - The Dimension beyond the All
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A bit of metta, and a lot less methane."A virtual world is just as real as a physical world. Both are real experiences, and neither exists independent of observation.
Something exists independent of observation. It is easy to assume we have a good idea what that something is. But our ideas might be no better than a monkey’s about Mozart."
Hoffman
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In this world, there are many people acting and yearning for the Mara's world; some for the Brahma's world; and very few for the Unborn.