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View submission: The Ultimate Beyond
The very question is foundationally mistaken. This is often asserted, but the Buddha even explained why in a very important, very short discourse[1]:
1: https://suttacentral.net/sn35.23/en/sujato
Mendicants, I will teach you The All. Listen …
And what is The All? It’s just the eye and sights, the ear and sounds, the nose and smells, the tongue and tastes, the body and touches, and the mind and ideas. This is called The All.
Mendicants, suppose someone was to say: ‘I’ll reject this All and describe another All.’ They’d have no grounds for that, they’d be stumped by questions, and, in addition, they’d get frustrated. Why is that? Because they’re out of their element.
Go ahead and try all you like, but you can never, ever fathom or describe a reality other than one which is defined by these present sense domains. You can sort of speak about it conceptually, but that's the limit, and only by leaving out the very qualities by which such a reality is supposed to differ from this one. You can never actually describe or experience it in any meaningful way.
There's nothing here!