I have been trying to encapsulate into words my interpretation on the nature of reality. This of course, is ultimately beyond words and form and this is not completely meshed out, but this is the explanation I have so far.
At the very essence of everything exists what I will call the ultimate ground of being. It is that which many religions and philosophies have called “God”. Some teachers have also called it presence, beingness, isness, and so forth. From the ground of being, arises consciousness, which is created so that the ground of being can know and experience itself through the multiplicity of the totality of reality. Consciousness is awareness, knowing, that which can observe that we are thinking. It can be still or active and it exists in everything that is created. These are the Absolute levels of being, the levels from which all else comes into existence, the levels at which everything is unified. From consciousness, we then have mind. In its essential state, mind is made of pure consciousness and it is also part of the Absolute.
On the Relative level of reality, which comes forth from the Absolute level, but is ephemeral, and transitory, we have forms, bodies, the namarupa (the realm of name and form). Things that come into and out of being. It is here where Mind meets the secondary level of reality and joins a body. Mind will often become exceedingly preoccupied with the namarupa, the secondary level of reality and forget its ultimate nature. It begins to become sucked into the dream of reality which is created by the mind. The mind identifies first with its personal thoughts, believing them to be ultimately real and abiding. Then it ascribes the same qualities to the body. Identifying with it, creating an ego, sets of beliefs, giving form to emotions, societal indoctrinations, societal dreams, and societal egos.