We tend to perceive the world as solid and static, when in fact, all that we experience is a construct and collection within our minds. That is to say that our specific ideas and thoughts about the physical world are the “reality” in which we perceive, in our mind of illusions and obsessions, but not the actual reality that is instantiating moment-to-moment.

Nichiren on Karma

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