The world we perceive is actually the interface or mixture of the noumenal world--the Tao, the objective reality that is unknowable--and ourselves (the subject). Our conception, interpretations and beliefs concerning outer reality plays a definite role in determining the reality that we experience. Changing our conceptions, our world view, does not change the eternal, actual world, but it does change the perceived world--the reality that we perceive. This is important because it is the world we touch, see, and act upon. This is how we create our own reality.

The world is what we think it is. If we want to change our reality, we should change what we think. If the reality is shared collectively by many individuals comprising a group-consciousness, then the whole group should agree to establish a new thought in order to create changes. It should be understood from the above that all systems instilling in us a certain world-view are arbitrary as they are all based on interpretation. Most of life's problems may be solved by simply changing our world view, attitudes, perspectives, feelings, and beliefs.

Changing our world-view makes real changes in the world of our experiences. "Because there are an infinite number of ways to perceive the world, there are an infinite number of worlds we may assemble with our awareness." Struggles, suffering and strife in life are fundamentally expressions of our own reality that we create daily. We may run away from our problems by changing our environment, but our inner reality, our world-view, re-creates similar problems over and over again until we learn to transmute or transcend them.

The actual underlying state of the universe is unknowable to us as long as we retain the world-view of the separateness of self. "You can become one with the universe but you cannot step back and observe it, because you are in it. You cannot observe a phenomenon without altering it by your mode of perception. There is no such thing as an independent observer. You participate in creating the world by perceiving it."

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