TMingyur wrote:
Where does the pondering about "reality" come from when there is no capacity to say what the term "reality" shall refer to?
What makes you think of nihilism?
This bit is nihilism if you are saying "there's no reality to refer to." That would be a view, a view of "no reality." To that view the Buddha said, "The world is the six-sense media."
But that is not true. He did not "describe the world as".
He described the world as the world of the senses.
Anyway, do you want to imply that through one of the six senses you can directly perceive what the term "reality" refers to? If so, what sense is it?
Or do you want to imply that the term "reality" refers to the totality of the six senses qua six senses
Reality is just another word for dhamma. The Buddha taught dhamma. A dhamma is a phenomena. A phenomena is an experience produced by the senses. This is really elementary, I'm surprised a highly realized student of dhamma like you is still bouncing this theme around.