Reality is even stranger than it seems for most of us. 
Why does reality come preprocessed or prepackaged? Is reality empty?
Can we know what the world is by someone's story of it? Why do two people experience the same situation differently? Christian Fanli Ramsey takes us through how our stories of the world delude us into thinking they match up with reality. We can be lead to believe that a story contains enough information for us to infer the conscious experience of the people in a situation. Yet reality is utterly empty, meaning we can't know what the situation is like without being that person. When we hear someone has had a breakup or didn't have parents or are poor, we might assume that is intrinsically bad, so we don't just label it as bad, it just appears to us as a bad experience for those experiencing it. But the strange nature of reality is that the situation is empty of intrinsic qualties. We create the label and forget that we put it there. So we are surprised when people report different experiences and we even begin to report our experiences to fit into how we expect others to label it. Drawing on emptiness and sunyata, Christian Fanli explains how reality exists in its negative form - emptiness and its positive form, interbeing. Drawing on Huayan Buddhism's primary sutta to explain the unlimited potential of things and how that applies to our daily life.