Whether you are going or staying or sitting or lying down,
the whole world is your own self.
You must find out
whether the mountains, rivers, grass, and forests
exist in your own mind or exist outside it.
Analyze the ten thousand things,
dissect them minutely,
and when you take this to the limit
you will come to the limitless,
when you search into it you come to the end of search,
where thinking goes no further and distinctions vanish.
When you smash the citadel of doubt,
then the Buddha is simply yourself.
Daikaku
Indeed. The reality you inhabit is the perception of your own mind tainted by your culture, society, religion and personal experiences. The mirage of your life is the false sense of self, the identity that gets hooked and attached to status, people, ideas and materials.
And it jumps all the time, going from a newer car to a bigger house. The ego in that identity always desires more to ground itself because it is lost in all those things it is looking for.
It searches because it does not live, it is just alive, almost dead.
You must look with open eyes, without the past which is identity which is the ego.
You must look just in the moment without the noise of the world, with no thought. Only then, can you see true reality.