Buddha taught that when you perceive the world while thinking, you structure your experience of the world into an illusion. The only way to perceive objective reality is to perceive without thought. Which of course, means perceiving nothing at all. Rather similar to death when you think about it. Accordingly, the more of the world you are seeing, the less of reality you see. That’s why online relationships are realer. Physical bodies are an illusion that distorts relationships. Your attraction to your partner’s body can delude you into thinking a relationship is good, while your soul is starving because their personality is no good for you. And your lack of attraction can blind you to a very good relationship, which is especially obvious if your partner is trans and pre-transition. You could be a straight guy, your gf is a trans girl, and you’d be very happy in an online relationship with the real her, but the illusion of her male body ruins the relationship and makes your penis soft. It’s no good.

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