Is it real or is it only in the mind? Or put another way, does getting to the root of the mind also, and necessarily, get to the root of reality? Surely the answer is yes, because the distinction between reality (as the ultimately determining instance) and mind is itself in the mind and so the mind cannot be resolved in its elemental being without at the same time including what is taken to be other than mind, the real, and so destroying the very possibility of a mind. The invention of consciousness was a great defeat, the wilfull assumption of a sealed-off layer, a mirrored prison, within experience and the placing of a captive within it. It was perhaps a response to the invention of matter, but thenceforth you would would have to spend lifetimes finding the hidden gate through it and into the primitive open - without ever having left it.