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and speaking about the reality as it is how is it you think about something or you experience something in your life and you make a thought about it I mean you come to the point that you create a thought in your mind which you don't know if it's real or it's not real that you don't really you can't find the reality hmm

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Well, reality is what it is.

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If it's arisen in your mind, then from my point of view, it's real.

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And I'm pretty sure that's what the Buddha taught.

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Think about what's going on in your mind when you ask this question, when you grapple with the idea of reality.

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There's no definition.

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There's no train of thought that could arise to give you the definition of reality.

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It makes no sense to even hypothesize about what is and what is not real, apart from what has arisen.

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So if it has arisen, it is real.

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So if a thought arises in your mind, then to the extent that it has arisen, then to that extent it's real.

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Other than that, it really... I think it's sophism.

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It's irrational to talk about this being real or that being real.

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Either that or it's just using logic and reason like how materialists

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point out that you can see things, so therefore they must exist.

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Of course, quantum physics and modern physics has blown that out of the water.

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Some theories have.

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The experiences are made by mind, produced by mind, and led by mind, produced by mind, and perceived by mind.

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Right.

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Okay, so...

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So if you imagine something and you really believe in it, that becomes something that actually happens.

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Yeah, but not maybe in the sense that you're thinking.

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It just means that they come in that sequence.

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It doesn't make them any less real just because the mind was the instigator or the mind allowed the experience to arise.