Very interesting quote from Rupert. But it makes perfect sense. To have any experience, you need two things; one is consciousness and the other is the activity of the mind. So when you push the mind out of the equation, there can't be any experience. During deep sleep when the mind is not active, there is no experience. Similarly, you can never experience the ultimate reality because to realise the ultimate reality, the mind which projects the false version of reality you see now needs to cease. So when ceasing of the mind is a prerequisite, you can't experience truth; you can only be the truth. At the ultimate level, there is no subject-object duality; the subject alone remains. That is what all the non-dualistic traditions like Advaita Vedanta, Mahayana Buddhism and Taoism point to.
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