Opinions – Everybody’s got one
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. Certainty is an illusion. Absolute certainty is an illusion absolutely. In spite of, or maybe because of this, humans crave certainty. (Thus we create conditions which favour the arising of suffering). When we find a point of view (or one that was given to us as a child) which seems to work, we cling to it. We might not like it to admit it, but the fact is that we are all close-minded, that is to say we already have a point of…