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Do Buddhists see reality as consensual or individual?

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Do Buddhists see reality as consensual or individual? Are all persons' realities joined in a seamless whole, or is each person a window onto nothingness that can never be seen by anyone else? I am not finding easy words for my question which seems clear to me... I see two real things (only), that are one: the Void, and Experience. So for me, everything in Experience is one thing, whether I perceive that or not. Yet each is also unique. Are we all connected like fingers on one hand, or more like ants in a colony: each distinct and un-mergeable with the others? Please provide a reference that I can read. Thank you! **EDIT:** I have this well-known quote attributed to the Buddha: *"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the World."* So, my question is: The word **"We"** - does it mean collectively, as a plenary (not by assent but in fact), or does it mean each of us individually? The word **"The"** World - does it mean the common reality, or each of our individual "realities"? Simple, yet subtle.
Asked by user2341
Nov 25, 2014, 04:43 PM
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