Reality in everyday usage means "everything that exists". The
term reality, in its widest sense, includes everything that is,
whether it is observable, comprehensible, or self-contradictory
by science, philosophy, or any other system of analysis. Reality
in this sense may include both being and nothingness, whereas
existence is often restricted to being (compare with nature). In
the strict sense of Western philosophy, there are levels or
gradation to the nature and conception of reality. These levels
include, from the most subjective to the most rigorous:
phenomenological reality, truth, fact, and axiom. Other
philosophies, particularly those founded in eastern religions
like Hinduism and Buddhism have different explications of
reality. Conceptions of reality in Buddhism include: dharma,
paramattha dhamma, samsara and maya (illusion in Sanskrit). ==
Phenomenological reality =