Wherever you look (life’s daily situations, business, politics, proper diet, proper exercise, personal relationships… it doesn’t matter where) life is permeated with wrong information. Even in what seems to be the simplest matters, contradictory perspectives collide. If your relationship with that is not healthy, life can be most frustrating.
What is the source of that frustration? Looking to the surface for the depth. Looking for the absolute in the relative. Looking for perfection in the world of imperfection…. for ‘relative’ essentially by definition means ‘imperfection’. You may need to reflect upon that a bit to under-stand it. Relative means perspective, means no bottom line.
What is the solution? Understanding the nature of life. Delighting in that. Marveling in that. Acting in harmony with that. The absolute is the trunk of the tree of life. See the connection of the movement of the branches to the solidity of the trunk, but do not look for the solidity in the branches… only look to see the connection, the pathway, from all the branches to the trunk.
Opinions fly in every direction. The more opinions you hear, the more different directions you are pointed. Look for the connection. Connect the dots. When all the wrong information is assimilated within your being, the truth is felt… but never put in a box. Truth, the Absolute, by its very nature lies beyond grasp. By living in peace with, in harmony with, that simple understanding, your proper course of action will lie before you.
We all long for That.
What to do? Where to go? How to live? What to think? There is a simple approach expressed in the Veda… Neti, neti, neti… not that, not that, not that. By holding things lightly, you rest into Truth, which lies beyond relativity… beyond information.
To be well informed is to have a healthy relationship with information, is to see beyond the surface… neti, neti, neti.
Arguing a perspective is a futile exercise, lest you see beyond your point, even while you are making it.
Jai Guru Dev.
Yet again, just the perfect timing for this lesson! Thank you. Jai Guru Dev.
Thank you! Brahmarshi…
Re: “Relative means perspective, means no bottom line.” I thought the Absolute was ‘no bottom line’ because there is nothing to hang onto. The Absolute seems like it should mean perspective since it is way beyond the ego’s limited understanding. Could you please explain?
Hello Nancy,
In the relative there are multiple realities, each with its own perspective. In the absolute there is no ‘perspective’. It holds all perspectives, but clings to none.
These lines especially strike me:
“Truth, the Absolute, by its very nature lies beyond grasp.
By living in peace with, in harmony with, that simple understanding,
your proper course of action will lie before you….
By holding things lightly, you rest into Truth….”
What do I hold onto? Let’s see; not that, not that, not that…
Living in peace with what I cannot grasp…
Hmm.
Amazingly timely. Bombarded with perspectives, but they do run their course, which leaves me with…
Joy Anna,
Yes, it is just that elusive. Truth is no-thing-ness, yet all things emerge from it. Similarly, the electron is not a physical point in space… it is a probablity cloud. When grabbed onto, it is no longer what it was. It collapse down from something that reaches out into infinite to a mere dot. Clinging to perspective reduces life to a mere dot. In the state of enlightenment, one functions in the world of dots, while not being lost to the dots, i.e. while resting into the depth of all that is… no-thing-ness. It is of course, not an attitude [not a perspective] but a state of being. To attempt to understand it is to put it into a box, collapse it down to a dot. However, that process of discernment [neti, neti, neti] moves you in the direction of ‘It’.