The Matrix Ending Explained: A Guide to Freeing Your Mind

Since your brain and your “self” are part of the matrix, to escape the matrix you must escape your self. That, however, is a possibility worth exploring. Escaping the narrow definition of self might well become a necessary survival skill in the twenty-first century.

The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth…. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison… for your mind.’

The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth…. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison… for your mind.’

The goal of life is to escape the landscape of illusions that you were born into. After you escape, there are two roads to take. Either you become a tyrant, seek power in the same system you escape, and control others with your own illusions … Or, you help others escape too.

The routine business of mindfulness—observing the world inside you and outside you with inordinate care—can do more than tone down troublesome feelings and enhance your sense of beauty. It can, in a slow, incremental, often uneven yet ultimately systematic way, transform your view of what’s really “out there” and what’s really “in here.” What begin

The most basic division in Buddhism is between the Theravada school and the Mahayana school. My own meditative tradition, Vipassana, derives from the Theravada lineage. It is within the Mahayana lineage (to which Quang Duc belonged) that you find the most radically broad conception of illusion. Some Mahayana Buddhists even subscribe to a “mind-only