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Buddhism: Everything is created by the mind

Buddhism's "emptiness" refers to "emptiness," or the characteristics of impermanence and non-self, a way of thinking that recognizes and understands the world, not an act of making the world.

The mind-only approach advocated by Buddhism does not mean that there is nothing outside the mind or that all things in the world can be achieved by conscious thought, but that the mind here refers to conscious judgment and the process of action, that is, the ability to know and understand things in the world as a result of the mind's conscious thought process. Since awareness is a kind of human subjective mental cognition, naturally, there are people's subjective will to influence the results of awareness, so all of our cognitive behavior is in fact a reflection of self-consciousness, can not talk about true and false, all the insights are not a true reflection of the outside world, but only in the reflection of our own degree of awareness of the outside world, so that only the mind is delusional. Outside of our own capacity for consciousness, outside of our conscious activities, the existence or non-existence of external objects has no cognitive consequences for our own selves. In other words, the existence or non-existence of external objects, it does not matter whether they are real or unreal, only to be cognized or not to be cognized.