When you remove your sight you will become blind. Unless you create a new way of seeing, when you remove your sight, you will see nothing.
Removing an illusion will make you not see an illusion. If you want to see reality, you have to develop a new way of seeing.
@ShozanJHaubner A few years ago you and I had an exchange on that on FB. I spoke against putting teachers on pedestals and, as a result, not applying the same rules of conduct to them as one would to anyone else. You agreed, and then you said, in essence: but he was so special! :)