This World Is A Hell Realm
Woke up from a dream just earlier, and it pretty much summarized what this world is.
I hate to break it to anyone who doesn't see this, but each and every person that was brought into this world lives in an evil malevolent sadistic design.
This world is life eating life just to survive.
On the surface you have the pretty blue skies and the pearly white clouds, but that is all just an illusion so as to distract you from what this place actually is.
You are thrown into the body of an animal that needs to constantly be fed and maintained. It is physical and so it will fall apart over time.
People will judge you for what vessel you were born into even though you were forced into it from the start.
Even just the act of being born is evil and reprehensible. You are born without any memories, into the body of an infant that is solely reliable on the parents to survive.
At any point you could have gotten aborted, and torn limb from limb, and you would not have been able to defend yourself.
And then as you age you are forced to develop sexual feelings for another creature who does not have the capabilities to reciprocate those feelings.
Does the dog want to be the dog? Does the cat want to be the cat? Does the human want to be a human?
Our own biology is disgusting. We eat food and then piss and shit it out of ourselves.
We need showers to maintain cleanliness. We need physical and mental support just to keep going.
We are born onto the ground because the creator of this place likes looking down upon us.
The very act of gravity keeps us restrained.
And the worst part? Not a damn person realizes any of this. Billions of people here. The majority suffering.
Working your life away because someone thinks they're better then you.
Hoping for a heaven to come after we die, when we should have been born into one to begin with.
Praying to someone who doesn't answer us.
Being "tested" by the limits of this world.
In certain Hindu philosophy, this realm (the physical realm) is referred to as “mrityuloka” (meaning the “realm of death”). From the Dharmic (Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist, etc) viewpoint, this realm is where we come to make peace with impermanence. Some Buddhist philosophies literally describe the earthly realm as a hell realm. Because everything in physical existence degenerates (sickness, old age, death, decay, etc.) nothing is permanent and therefore it is illusory. However, we still have to act as if it’s real to get by. We are all here in physical bodies because we have heavy karmas to burn off, but that doesn’t mean we have to succumb to depressive nihilism. Spiritual practices, study and contemplation of mystical teachings, taking refuge in enlightened beings, etc are all paths to inner peace. This world is absolutely horrifying and absolutely beautiful all at once. Two opposite things can simultaneously be true, that’s the divine paradox of existence.
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Zen koans, and spirituality in general, is rife with paradoxes and "crazy logic". For example, a photon of light is both a wave and a particle.
The last sentence is objectively true and I also happen to believe everything you wrote before that, but can we agree it is of little consolation to someone acutely suffering?
Someone severely depressed working a job they hate for almost no money, and the woman getting raped right now somewhere on Earth, are going to have a hard time seeing the beauty and divine paradox.
Absolutely! Spirituality should not be used to bypass suffering, but it often is, and that just creates more suffering in the long run. As humans, we have to experience our suffering. As souls, we can compassionately hold space for our suffering while simultaneously knowing the higher truth. I’m a social worker, I work on child abuse cases, and I experienced childhood abuse myself. My work is to align myself spiritually so I can keep increasing my capacity to be with someone else’s suffering without trying to make it go away. Radical acceptance is the precursor to radical empathy. The more I can accept suffering, the more it naturally changes and alleviates itself. Suffering is just sticky/clingy energy that needs to move and flow through acceptance, not resistance. If I know someone is on a spiritual path or hear a spiritual longing in their language, sometimes it can be addressed directly, but that takes practice and discernment. Mostly, people just need to feel seen and heard as they are, to have our pain and suffering witnessed.
A beautiful comment. I do have the Bhagavad Gita, should really read it. I have a good translation too lol. The one by Eknath?
I’m afraid you’re swallowing the bees. Breathe in the butterflies and blow out the bees. Or you’ll suffocate while being stung.
That's the beautiful thing about life, it's a horrible, horrible thing, but in the end, if we see it for what it is, it simply, is. Life can be a terrible, horrible dog eat dog fuck everyone else I'm better than you world, or it can be incredible, innocent curiosity, love, plants, animals, even rocks, all living in harmony. The problem comes, when we get too deep into what reality is, the good, the bad, an animal doesn't think it bad to kill it's prey, it simply needs to eat, a tree doesn't think about the nutrients it takes up, it simply does. A bee, a bird, a springtail you can't even see in the dirt, are all simply living, doing what they need to continue, to feed, to breed, to survive. What are you growing, thorns, or flowers?
You’re framing life as a cruel, malevolent design, but that assumes there’s a designer. What if the truth is simpler? What if life isn’t designed at all, just a byproduct of billions of years of chaotic evolution? There’s no sadistic intent, just a system where survival and replication rule. Biology isn’t disgusting, it’s efficient. You eat, excrete, and reproduce because that’s what life needs to sustain itself. Every animal, every plant, every microbe does the same. It’s not pretty, but it’s functional. Gravity? It’s not a punishment; it’s the force that holds your existence together. Without it, there’s no Earth, no air, no you. As for suffering, it’s not unique to humans. Every living thing fights for survival, and most lose. The lion eats the gazelle, the gazelle starves during a drought. Life’s harsh, not because it’s evil, but because it operates on raw competition. Hoping for a heaven to fix this misses the point. There’s no afterlife coming to save you, and that’s not a tragedy, it’s a challenge. You’ve got this one life, flawed and messy as it is. Meaning isn’t handed to you, it’s something you create. That’s not divine, but it’s real. Your argument collapses when you stop looking for malice or intent in nature and start seeing it for what it is indifferent, mechanical, and brutally honest. The beauty? You’re conscious enough to rise above it, or not. That choice is yours.
Highly recommend "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race" by Thomas Ligotti, it is very similar to this train of thought, and also explains why so many comments here are arguing with your assertions.
"You" didn't teleport from some supernatural realm into your body. "You" are what your body/brain does. "You" don't exist outside your animal form. "You" emerge from the interaction of chemicals and electricity.
There isn't an alternative to this. There is no other place from which to contemplate reality. It's only what is here and now.
And yes, it can be nightmarish but to quote Nabakov "The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness". This is a blip in time and you can spend it hating how brutal it can be or allow yourself to embrace the utter weirdness of actually existing at all. Either way, in terms of the cosmic lifetime, this is nothing at all. It's just an immense fog of subatomic particles being driven apart by entropy.
Very well-written and you are not alone in how you think and feel, despite what some of these comments say.
Just a matter of perspective. In my cozy warm bed, heat cranked to 26 C, reading whatever I want to right now. Maybe I will go and make a coffee and read some more.
The world you outlined also exists, so take some time to focus on the positives. Constant negative thinking turns into a reflex and pattern. Same with positive, but we need both to survive.
Are you so depressed that you see showering as a burdening deed? I love to shower.
Eating and maintaining my body are things i enjoy. Sport is fun, food is fun.
People can judge me as hard as they want, i still make my own decisions. Why would i care about the judgement of strangers? Only if people i learned to love and trust speak about me, that's when i listen up.
Why is pissing and shitting disgusting? It's what mamals do. Just bodily functions. Your social indoctrination makes them seem disgusting.
"The creator looking down at us" is only valid if you believe in a kingly deity that rules upon you. But what if you are the creator? What if your nondual exsistence was so lonely and boring that you split yourself into uncountable pieces that all play the game of pretending they aren't the creator? What if you chose this adventure to see, what duality feels like?
See, it's not about what you do, it's about the perspective you have doing it. It's about your mindset.
I accept the darkness for the light, the pain for the pleasure, the hate for the love.
You have a purely one sided negative perspective. But we live in a dual world.
Maybe watch Allan Watt's "life is not a journey" and you might realize that you are stuck in your life because you have been conditoned to compare yourself with others and work towards a goal.
Never forget to sing and dance while the music is being played.
It's not laziness, it's called depression once you realize how much life sucks. Even eating is a chore for me now and so I even hate food.
Already answered to another comment and changed it to depressed.
Was insensitive of me to accuse op of lazyness.
Furthermore about shitting and pissing - those acts are evolved to help the circle of life function by recycling elements. It's not a disgusting thing when looked at from that perspective. It's an aspect of Gaia.
People who suffer from major health problems and disabilities definitely see showering as a burden. Just because someone "looks" normal on the outside doesn't mean they are able to function in life normally.
You are right. The accusation of being lazy was insensitive of me.
I changed it to depressed, as i myself know how hard simple tasks can be if there is zero motivation.
Still a bit too broad of a term, but english isn't my first language and i lack better words atm.
Thanks for pointing that out.
I could tell you my personally story to confirm all of this but (and i'm serious when i say this) one day I will write a book about it, and I say all of this to say, you're ABSOLUTELY correct. You have no clue how right you are about all of this, even if you never (maybe you have) experienced a quarter of the suffering i've seen with my own eyes.
In the end, I'm 43 now, and I can confidently say, this is a prison planet. This is the hell realm, and no hallmark holiday, fake romantic movies etc. can ever convince me otherwise.
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Of course she offers practices 😂
I agree. There’s an endless void, that no matter how you think, or what you do, or what you accomplish, you will never be satisfied. A world of impermanence, that we are desperately trying to Stabilize. That’s the definition of insanity.
This is Samsara. The easiest of the hells, and the most beautiful(imho). If you've written this, you're probably a human, which is one of the spicier kinds of chainmaker/chainbreaker demon. You have access to the triple magicks of Fire, Fiber arts, and the Word.
You must stop using the Word to form your own chains. Stop drinking from word-sources which bind you. Find the words that break your chains, and say them as often as you can.
Some spiritual people who believe that being in this body is part of a longer journey say that Earth is one of the hardest places to live. It's like if you want to be a spiritual navy seal, you pick a life on Earth to learn a good lesson. It's an interesting thought to entertain.
It its easier to realize none if it is hard
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It seems like all of this stems from a mistaken belief in the self.
There is no you. You are nothing but the vessel. You are nothing but your ancestors living hands in the world. From an ethical perspective it's more accurate to view humans as lineages of single celled organisms -germ cells- living in a spacesuit made of the bodies of their kin -somatic cells- that periodically shed their habitats to construct new ones.
Goodness isn't about experiences or preferences. Goodness isn't about you. It's about self-stabilizing systems. And you can have a role in that, just like anything else that has evolved.
Morality is all about everything taking its turn. Death and birth, the predator-prey relationship, they aren't bugs in the system, they're the basis of goodness itself. They are the ties we have to all other life and the land as a whole that give us our meaning. Cause we are nothing without context.
The commentators here don't seem to get how literally you mean it.
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Reddit is the saddest place on earth.
you can get addicted to a certain type of sadness
“My kingdom is not of this world” - Jesus
“ Bow down and worship me and I will give you all the kingdoms of the world” - Satan
I’m not a Bible thumper, but there is much wisdom in these statements.
You are not in hell. You are in the fire that forges gold.