5.1.1.5 Eastern Mysticism

Views similar to those of Berkeley’s modern Immaterialism have appeared much earlier in some, but not all, forms of Buddhism. These stressed the sole reality of consciousness. Generally, Buddhism emphasizes that the world of change that appears real to us is illusion. Similarly, some forms of Hinduism tend to view reality as the expression of an all-encompassing divine mind. To be fair, the mainstream viewpoint in both of these religions is that, minimally, there exists a sort of dualism that includes both a physical and a spiritual reality.