Please explain,"Mind or spirit constitutes the fundamental reality".?

Answer 1

The mind perceives reality and the spirit judges the reality
which is perceived. Therefore, both share an important
bond in determining behavior. It is my opinion, that the
mind is closer to that which is constituted as reality. Whereas
the spirit is the guide of morality concerning the reality
which is perceived.

Answer 2

As I do not know the source for this expression or what context from which it comes, on the face of it I interpret there is a fundamental reality of total reality which as its most simplest necessary condition has mind or spirit as its ground. 'Mind' and 'spirit' are assumed as synonym for each other, they represent the same descriptive. I.E. as component or undifferentiated totality for an identity named 'fundamental reality', 'mind' or 'spirit' is formed for its constitution or its principles for operation.

It sounds like a solipsism.


Further reading: http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/berkeley.htm

80. In the last place, you will say, what if we give up the cause of material Substance, and stand to it that Matter is an unknown Somewhat - neither substance nor accident, spirit nor idea, inert, thoughtless, indivisible, immoveable, unextended, existing in no place ? I or, say you, whatever may be urged against substance or occasion, or any other positive or relative notion of Matter, hath no place at all, so long as this negative definition of Matter is adhered to - I answer, you may, if so it shall seem good, use the word 'Matter' in the same sense as other men use 'nothing', and so make those terms convertible in your style. For, after all, this is what appears to me to be the result of that definition - the parts whereof when I consider with attention, either collectively or separate from each other, I do not find that there is any kind of effect or impression made on my mind different from what is excited by the term nothing.

81. You will reply, perhaps, that in the aforesaid definition is included what doth sufficiently distinguish it from nothing - the positive abstract idea of quiddity, entity or existence I own, indeed, that those who pretend to the faculty of framing abstract general ideas do talk as if they had such an idea, which is, say they, the most abstract and general notion of all; that is, to me, the most incomprehensible of all others. That there are a great variety of spirits of different orders and capacities, whose faculties both in number and extent are far exceeding those the Author of my being has bestowed on me, I see no reason to deny. And for me to pretend to determine, by my own few, stinted, narrow inlets of perception, what ideas the inexhaustible power of the Supreme Spirit may imprint upon them were certainly the utmost folly and presumption - since there may be, for aught that I know, innumerable sorts of ideas or sensations, as different from one another, and from all that I have perceived, as colours are from sounds. But, how ready soever I may be to acknowledge the scantiness of my comprehension with regard to the endless variety of spirits and ideas that may possibly exist, yet for any one to pretend to a notion of Entity or Existence, abstracted from spirit and idea, from perceived and being perceived, is, I suspect, a downright repugnancy and trifling with words.