The nature of reality and REALITY

The reality’s nature is some sort of nature that we can observe and perceive easily, compare to the Reality’s nature.

Through impermanence, we recognize the reality from the phenomenon of arising and ceasing. Again, from these phenomenon, we also realize that nothing can be controlled by us. What we can do is just try our best to maintain, to take care, to protect etc., by adding on certain conditions. 

For instance, we try to eat healthy, get good sleep, keep routine physical workouts etc., to maintain our physical health. However, the reality is, we can only try our best to preserve but we can’t really determine nor dictate the consequences.

Deep inside the phenomenon of changing lies a nature which we can’t really discern easily, which is the Reality’s nature —— emptiness (sanskrit : śūnyatā, śūnya). The Emptiness here is not a nihilistic concept, It definitely doesn’t mean empty, nonexistence or nothing at all etc. The nature of Emptiness, indeed, make room for all things to change momentarily.

Without the Reality —— Emptiness, how can something arise? And, without Emptiness, how can something cease? Without Emptiness, those already existed (or so-called existence), will never cease. Without Emptiness, those that have yet to appear, will never arise.

All the phenomenon of impermanence, the reality’s nature is based on the Emptiness, which is the Reality’s nature.