This subject brings to mind the words of an old Buddhist philosopher named Bodhidharma (Tamo to the Chinese).
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Those who shun illusion for reality, who meditate on walls and the loss of self and other, on the unity of mortal and sage, and are undettered by holy written words are in accord with the faculty of reason. Lacking motion and effort, they embrace reason.
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In other words, reality and what appears to be reality are difficult to separate, especially if one looks to outside sources, which may themselves be illusions). Tamo believed that the one must turn to introspection (gap of awareness) and focus the mind on itself in order to cut through illusion.
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We are mortal and sage; we are self and all else. Once this reality is seen, we become reason itself.
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One definition of reason is "a cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event." So could it not be conceivable that we are somewhat responsible for the existence of what surrounds us?
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...are we really existing right at this very moment?
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We don't exists; we tend to exist.