Longchen posted this in his forum, I copied it over 
The Limitation of science in dealing
with Reality
As Beings, the conventional mind only sees interpretations of
Reality.
Why is this so? This is because, firstly Sensory data are
interpretations(manifested form) of reality. Why are they
interpretations and are not the direct experiencing of it
(Reality)? To illustrate this point...lets consider the perception
of 2 person: a color-blind person and one with normal vision. The
color-blind person may sees images differently from one who is not.
So... who is seeing the truth?...none. Both are seeing
interpretations(manifested form) of the Truth. Likewise animals may
see and sense things differently from humans.
Sensory datas that are being percieved are in turn cognated by the
conventional mind. Again, the conventional mind sees
interpretations collected by sensory perception. From the sensory
datas, the conventional mind conceive the informations into things,
environments and people... A simplified example is that by
differentiating the changes in colours on the vision sight, the
conventional mind cognate edges... with the edges connected... the
enclosed area become percieved as objects, things,
entities...
The conventional mind can only theorizes from its interpretations.
Science is based on the theory and concepts derived from the
conventional mind.
Science is just that... conceptual framework for understanding the
dynamics of Reality... But it can only theorizes using
concepts.
To truly experience Reality...one must go beyond thinking (which is
theorising) about Reality. We must experience it directly.
PS: From the way that I have written... some people might have the
misconceptions that the Source(Reality) is separated from us. This
is clearly not so. It is the conventional discriminating mind that
think in terms of separation and duality. However, the conventional
discriminating mind itself is not an entity, but is just the
dualistic function of cognition.
