[MD] Taking off the glasses?

[MarshaV]

I've stated it in my own words plenty of times, and offered corroborating evidence other than wiki:  


 "In Buddhist mental training, great emphasis is placed from the outset on distinguishing between the fantasizing mind and verifying cognition.  Indeed the tendency of the human mind to assume the existence of things that are in fact nonentities is considered to lie at the root of a broad range of unnecessary conflicts and miseries.  The most basic expression of this mental distortion is the reification of oneself as an intrinsically existent personal identity. Having reified oneself, it is inevitable that one reifies others in the same way, and this sets up absolute demarcations between self and other.  One naturally also reifies one's natural environment as intrinsically existent, and therefore as absolutely other. 

   "The centrists view acknowledges the obvious truth that one person is different from another and that they are different from their inanimate environment.  But such distinctions are of a conventional, not an absolute, nature.  This does not mean that such demarcations are arbitrary.  Rather, the centrists view asserts that they exist in dependence upon conceptual designation.  Every sentient being and every inanimate object thus exists as a dependently related event..."  

      (Wallace, B. Alan, 'Choosing Reality, : A Buddhist View of Physics and the Mind', 2003, p.142)




 
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