“Everything that we see around us is seen as it is because we have been repeatedly solidifying our experience of inner and outer reality in the same way, lifetime after lifetime, and this has led to the mistaken assumption that what we see is objectively real.”
One of my favorite Buddhist concepts is emptiness – the idea that we give meaning to everything that we experience. Everything is inherently neutral, it’s like a blank canvas. But we project outward our perceptions that give meaning (and positive or negative charge) to the reality we are experience.
It’s why I look at a pen and see a pen. You look at a pen and see a pen, too. But a dog looks at a pen and sees a chew toy.
Who is right? Who is wrong?