Buddhist meditation tries to cut through man's fictional models of reality which are like scaffolding constructed around true reality. These fictional models also misrepresent true reality but have value like any tool or device might.
On this same track, I would argue that our concepts such as God, our classifications, our laws and logic, including metaphysics and, for that matter, the basis of modern life are simply scaffolding which while useful never adequately represents the true nature of things. Buddhists would add to this list, language which has practical value but which cannot bring us to the reality of which it serves as mere scaffolding.
As humans we are clueless as to what true reality is and will never comprehend it by means of our fictional models. In on respect, we have constructed a huge Disneyland-like world or a giant Las Vegas in which we find delight and meaning in our everyday life but which is still a fictional construct which only feeds our delusions about life.
Our fictional world, at some point in our lives, has to be renounced just as Siddhartha renounced the courtly life of his father by going to live in the forest eventually becoming awakened to Dharma, i.e., truth reality.
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