In regard to ultimate reality, the subject of our imaginations and thoughts can reveal no more than the blatant reality of the experience itself. Does one require imagination to have a sensation? Does one require thought to feel an emotion? My point is that the "observation" of reality- not that I'm implying an observer, but just talking about being/existence here- reveals absolute truth self-evidently. Not the subject of the thought but the thinking itself reveals its nature. Not the subject of the concept but the conceptualization itself reveals its nature.Diebert van Rhijn wrote: Hey leave me out of it and her! [materialism I mean] There’s not much to believe in - if it cannot be imagined or thought about even, is there? All thought, drawing, writing and talking would be "faith based" and "assumption based" for the simple reason that this is how you're able to conceive, formulate, consider and as such communicate at all. You're trying to distance your self from the very thing you are doing by somehow loading it all unto others and then push it back. Maybe it helps you to define position, to clarity something for your self? It won't stand though, it will not survive scrutiny. Enjoy your artificial certainty while it lasts!
It is self-evidently absolutely true that there is what we refer to as consciousness/impermanent appearances. Everything else lies therein. Everything else is a reference to these. Everything else is a manifestation/aspect of these.
When one forgets or eschews this fundamental truth, one easily clings to such appearances as a concept as if they have a metaphysical priority over the foundation, over their very nature.
To try and communicate this point again: you cannot contradict the nature of something with itself.
You can't use a thought to say thought does not exist. You can't use an imagination to say imagination is impossible.
What people do generally, is take something such as an imagination, and act as if it is more than it is. Again, the easy example, someone imagines God, then says that imagination is more than just an imagination, but is actually revealing something in reality other than what it is. This is exactly what happens when one imagines "being finished with consciousness of form" as moving expects. It is exactly what happens when one imagines "the end" to consciousness at bodily death. It is exactly what happens when one imagines a "physical mind-independent realm".
This of course is an entirely different situation when we're talking about the temporary/worldly/conventional, as opposed to literal absolute metaphysical claims.