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 Plants have roots that take in water and minerals from the soil. Through the process of photosynthesis plant cells convert sunlight into chemical energy which is then used to combine carbon dioxide and water into glucose which is used for growth. Human beings are organisms that live on this planet. These creatures eat plants among other things and convert the sugars from what they consume into energy. These creatures possess consciousness. As consciousness develops the thought arises that the creature is separate from it's environment. This thought is that the creature is an I. That it is different and the world is different from it. As consciousness continues to develop this thought ceases to arise. 

What is there if there is no space and time? What is there if there is no self? What if there are no thoughts? No distance. Who do we become when we cease to exist? Who are we if we never existed at all? Who am I if I don't exist? Feeling? Being? What do these mean? What if there is no self? What if there is just openness, expansiveness and this is what we are. What if there is no end to being? What if there is no difference between death and life? Between who I am and who I am not? Between delusion and reality? What if there is no difference between anything? Because what we imagine and perceive is not as we imagine it to be. Because we imagine differences between and among things, when there in fact is no difference? What we imagine is true is no different from what is false because the two were never two too begin with. We imagine there is a difference, a distinction only because we are ignorant. If we could see clearly we wouldn't have words for true and false. There would be no distinction to make. No confusion. As we see it, both are imperfect, and both are only fully understood when they are united and seamless with the other. In a sense, when they cease to exist. 

Ideas of real and not real are both imagined and thus they do not perfectly point to what is. What is is a combination of what they are and what they are not. In totally denying them we are simply giving into the thought of unreal. In totally accepting them we are giving into the idea that they are real. As long as we have notions of separateness between real and not real we will not see clearly. As long as our consciousness is tied to these notions of separateness we will be blinded. The answer is the full illumination of the mind, if such a thing is possible. To completely dissolve the notion of separateness and to complete uproot the mind from thinking. In a way that is a complete transcendence and dissolution of thinking. As long as there is thinking, there is delusion. Thought is inherently limited and composed of ego nature, which is deluded and unreal. At least the root of the ego must be completely withdrawn from the mind.