00:00Have you ever felt, even if just for a second, that everything around you seems too solid?
00:05To be true?
00:07The life you touch, see, and pursue with such conviction may be nothing more than...
00:13A carefully constructed scenario, a stage where you perform without ever having chosen it.
00:19The script?
00:21Because if that feeling has already crossed your mind, even subtly, perhaps you are...
00:26Closer to the truth than you think.
00:28There is a veil before your eyes, an ancient, silent, almost perfect veil, and it
00:35It's not there to protect you, but to keep you busy, chasing shadows.
00:40while believing he is experiencing reality.
00:43Arthur Schopenhauer summed it up brutally, in a sentence that neither asks for permission nor softens the blow.
00:50the impact.
00:51The world is my representation; it's not poetry, it's a direct hit.
00:56Everything you call reality, everything that affects you, excites you, or destroys you.
01:03Emotionally, it's not the world itself, but merely the way your mind constructs it.
01:09You don't access the truth, you access a filtered version, shaped by your senses.
01:16because of their history, their desires, and their fears.
01:20Even so, you live as if this were reality itself, as if nothing else existed.
01:26Beyond what your eyes can see.
01:28This idea did not originate in the West, long before European philosophers wrote treatises.
01:36Hindu sages already spoke of maya, the great illusion, the force that transforms the world into
01:42A mesmerizing spectacle of shapes, colors, pleasures, and pains.
01:48For them, the sensible universe is like a divine theater.
01:54Everything seems concrete, permanent, important, but in reality it is transient, fleeting, so
02:01As unstable as the flame of a candle about to go out.
02:05Schopenhauer not only drank from this source, he traversed it, bringing this vision to...
02:12within Western philosophy with a clarity that still baffles today.
02:18The most disturbing thing is not the idea that the world is a partial illusion.
02:23The real shock is realizing how much you believe in her.
02:28You wake up, grab your phone, read messages, consume news, watch numbers go up or
02:34falling, you feel anxiety, anger, joy, fear.
02:39All of this seems real, urgent, decisive, but what is actually there?
02:44Organized pixels, electrical impulses, codes stored on distant servers.
02:49The emotional impact is not in the data itself, but in how your mind interprets it.
02:55This is not just a metaphor for the digital world, it's an accurate portrayal of existence itself.
03:01What you experience is always a mediation, never the core of things.
03:04Immanuel Kant called that which we can never access the noumenon, the thing-in-itself.
03:10All that remains for us are phenomena, appearances, projections that emerge on the screen of consciousness.
03:16You live surrounded by shadows, believing that they are reality itself.
03:21And perhaps this seems too abstract, too far removed from your concrete life.
03:26But just look at the small, everyday mistakes.
03:29How many times have you been absolutely certain of something, only to later discover you were wrong?
03:36How many times have you interpreted a look, a silence, a message as an attack or contempt?
03:42only to realize later that none of it existed?
03:46These lapses are not exceptions, they are symptoms.
03:49They reveal that their perception is unreliable.
03:52You don't see the world, you see a mental model of the world.
03:56Schopenhauer goes even further in explaining why this distortion is inevitable.
04:02He claims that we are dominated by a force we did not choose.
04:06A blind, incessant, and rational energy, which he called will.
04:11She doesn't ask for permission.
04:13It simply acts on us.
04:15To desire is not a choice, it is a condition.
04:18You desire recognition, security, pleasure, power, stability, love, and success.
04:25And each desire reinforces the illusion that there is an end point.
04:30A future moment when everything will finally make sense.
04:34This is the cruelest trick of the veil of Maya.
04:37He convinces you that peace is just around the corner.
04:40One step forward.
04:41When I achieve that, then I will be happy.
04:43When you achieve that position, that money, that body, that relationship, then everything will fall into place.
04:53But that day never comes.
04:54Just when it seems close, it moves away.
04:57Like a mirage in the desert, the more you run, the farther away it becomes.
05:03And when, by chance, you achieve what you so desperately wanted, the satisfaction is short-lived.
05:08Soon a new desire arises.
05:10Another foul.
05:11A new concern.
05:13It's not your fault.
05:14It is the mechanism of will working exactly as it should.
05:20Life, Schopenhauer said,
05:22It oscillates like a pendulum between pain and boredom.
05:25The pain of not having what you desire.
05:28The boredom of having already conquered.
05:30There is never rest.
05:32There is never lasting contentment.
05:33And yet you continue to believe that, somehow, with the right strategy, with more effort, with more control, this race will come to an end.
05:44How many times have you fallen for this trick?
05:46How many achievements were followed by a silent emptiness that you couldn't explain?
05:52What's most unsettling is that, even when you understand this intellectually, you continue to act as if it were a lie.
06:01You know that desire deceives, but you continue to obey.
06:05He knows that perception is limited, but he trusts it blindly.
06:11Schopenhauer is not interested in offering comfort.
06:15He doesn't write to calm people down.
06:17He writes to confront.
06:19Because if everything you experience is a subjective construct,
06:24So their deepest certainties may be merely echoes of a collective illusion.
06:30Nietzsche took this to the extreme by stating that there are no facts.
06:34These are just interpretations.
06:37Freud, however, revealed that we are not even transparent to ourselves.
06:43Much of what we think, desire, and decide,
06:47It originates in unconscious layers that we prefer to ignore.
06:52The mind not only distorts the world,
06:55She creates narratives to protect herself from anguish.
06:59And then comes the question that few have the courage to face.
07:02How many of your convictions are truly your own?
07:06From birth, you are shaped by values, beliefs, expectations,
07:12family, school, culture, historical period.
07:17All of this seeps in before you even have the words to question it.
07:22And the most effective part of this process is that you grow up believing that these ideas are your own.
07:29The veil of Maya is not merely metaphysical.
07:32It is psychological, social, and historical.
07:36Each era constructs its own illusions and calls them unquestionable truths.
07:42There was a time when it was believed that kings ruled by divine right,
07:46that the social order was immutable, and that questioning it was heresy.
07:51Today, these beliefs seem absurd.
07:55But what about ours?
07:56The obsession with success, the dependence on digital validation,
08:01an almost religious faith in technology as a solution to all problems.
08:07What if all this is just another chapter in the same illusion?
08:11An even more sophisticated theater?
08:13Even if you acknowledge all of that, the central question remains.
08:17Is it possible to escape?
08:19Or are we condemned to live within an illusion?
08:23Aware of it, but unable to transcend it?
08:26Schopenhauer believed that there are loopholes, rare, difficult, uncomfortable ones.
08:32He saw aesthetic experience as one of those moments.
08:34When you get completely lost in a song,
08:37in a work of art, in a landscape that silences the inner noise,
08:42For a few moments, the desire is silenced.
08:45You stop wanting it.
08:45You just contemplate.
08:48And at that moment, something of the veil is lifted.
08:52Art does not promise eternal happiness.
08:55It offers glimpses,
08:57small windows beyond the cycle of desire.
09:00Therefore, the great artists, the true creators,
09:04They seem to touch something that most people only notice.
09:07But there is an even more radical path,
09:09inspired by the Eastern philosophies that so influenced Schopenhauer.
09:13The resignation.
09:15Not the superficial, aesthetic renunciation that has become fashionable,
09:20But profound renunciation, the very root of desire.
09:24This is the point where almost everyone backs down.
09:27Because letting go of desire isn't just about abandoning possessions or ambitions.
09:32It's about letting go of ego, personal narrative, and the idea of control.
09:37It's living without the constant promise of a better tomorrow.
09:41Very few people can stand it.
09:43And perhaps that's why the truly awakened are so rare.
09:47Most people prefer to replace one illusion with another.
09:51The skeptic who ridicules any transcendence,
09:54It constructs a new dogma around disbelief.
09:58The rebel who rejects social values,
10:01one often becomes a slave to the opposition itself.
10:05The spiritual seeker, in his yearning for awakening,
10:08You can fall into fantasies that are just as comforting as the ones you swore to abandon.
10:13As Jung warned, what is not brought to consciousness becomes destiny.
10:20What you ignore in yourself ends up governing you.
10:24The cruelest illusion is not believing what you see,
10:27but to believe that their desires are authentic,
10:29that sprout freely, untouched.
10:32Willpower acts upon you like an invisible tide.
10:36You move thinking you choose the direction,
10:39But he is being dragged along by currents he barely notices.
10:44And when he finally understands that,
10:46The feeling can be devastating.
10:48Because the truth sets you free, but it also frightens you.
10:52It removes the comfortable ground of certainties.
10:55Schopenhauer does not romanticize this revelation.
10:58For him, tearing the veil of Maya is a difficult experience.
11:02often unbearable.
11:03Despite everything, illusion offers meaning, structure, and hope.
11:09Without her, the world reveals itself to be indifferent.
11:11governed by a blind will,
11:14where suffering is the rule, not the exception.
11:17Given this, many choose to forget.
11:19They immerse themselves in distractions, in consumption,
11:22in constant noise.
11:23Anything to avoid the silence,
11:25Because it is in silence that the truth begins to speak.
11:29Nietzsche warned that,
11:30when you gaze long into the abyss,
11:33The abyss stares back.
11:35Few can bear that look.
11:37Most people prefer a well-told lie.
11:39in the well-decorated fantasy,
11:41The comfortable illusion.
11:43Tearing the veil requires brutal courage.
11:46It requires abandoning what keeps you safe.
11:49And the decision is not theoretical.
11:51It's existential.
11:53It defines how you live.
11:55Perhaps the greatest wisdom
11:57Don't be in the mood to completely destroy the illusion.
12:00but in seeing it
12:01without being dominated by it.
12:04Knowing that the stage is a stage,
12:07even while performing.
12:09Recognizing the game without getting lost in it.
12:12To live with clarity.
12:13Even knowing that the will
12:15It will never be completely silenced.
12:18Beauty in between.
12:20During moments of contemplation.
12:22In those rare silences where desire loses its power.
12:25Now, the inevitable question arises.
12:28What will you do with it?
12:29Will you pretend you never heard?
12:31He will continue chasing the same promises.
12:33As if they could save you?
12:35Or will you allow this unease to grow?
12:39even if it's annoying,
12:40Even if it causes instability?
12:42Once you've seen something, you can't help but see it.
12:45The veil of Maya is before your eyes.
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