“Do we live in a ‘Matrix’-like illusion?”
The Buddha settled that question two-and-a-half millennia ago with a resounding “yes.” That’s why so many people view The Matrix as a kind of Buddhist allegory. (Spoiler alerts to follow!) The Matrix itself is humanity’s self-constructed illusory prison of the mind — a handy metaphor for the Buddhist concept of samsara. At one point the film’s villain, Agent Smith, even goes so far as to say, “I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery.”
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