The tree isn't real.
If you can't accept the truth that it is 99.9999999% empty space and the rest of it is blinking in and out of existence .... you can instead look up the alternative Buddhist explanation of interdependent arising which leads to the conclusion of the illusory nature of reality.
From the Buddhist point of view, it's the misapprehension of the nature of reality that gives rise ultimately to all forms of suffering. For example, believing that the tree (or your Maserati, or your mother, or your house, or your youth) is real, is the only way you can experience grief, when the tree falls down, your mother dies, the house is foreclosed, you grow old etc.
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