Rupert Spira

Contemplating the
Nature of Experience

Non-Duality

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What is the relationship between this Consciousness, the knower, and that Reality, the known? Both Consciousness and Existence are present in every experience and yet neither have objective qualities.

If they were different from one another, they would have to have defining qualities that distinguished and separated them from one another. All such defining qualities belong to the realm of the mind or senses, to the faculties of knowing and sensing, and are therefore not inherent in Consciousness or Existence.

Therefore, if Consciousness and Existence are both present in every experience and yet neither of them have any qualities, they cannot be separate. Consciousness and Existence are one and the same.