#The matrix blue and red pill movie

If you feel your experience makes you different and better than other people, you have chosen the blue pill: you continue to live in an illusion. (Please note that I am using the red pill/blue pill imagery as it was originally presented in the movie, not as it has been co-opted by certain groups to advance their views of male and female oppression.) For Buddhist practitioners, that choice is equivalent to whether you use a glimpse of what you actually are to begin a journey into the unknown or you use it to define and solidify a sense of self.

#The matrix blue and red pill movie

In the movie The Matrix, the protagonist, after finding out that he lives in an illusory world, is offered the choice between taking a red pill and continuing to learn about reality or taking a blue pill and returning to an illusion of life. But it is precisely here that you have to make a choice. That is freedom-freedom from the tyranny of reaction. In that groundlessness, you know that it is possible to experience whatever life throws at you, and not react. For most people, there is a feeling of deep joy and extraordinary freedom, and a humble appreciation th at that experience or shift is only the start of a journey. The utter groundlessness of experience, when you know it directly, not conceptually, is profoundly meaningful, and it affects people in different ways. The experience of mind nature is, for almost everyone, a turning point in their practice.