It becomes easier and easier as you learn to witness the mechanations of your own mind without resistance or attachment. For example you may have a reaction to someone saying something racist but your real power is in witnessing the thoughts, feelings, ect that come with that.
You may even have that emotional reaction and act in a way that isn't helpful. The power is in witnessing this as well. Many people have a tendency on trying to control their mind, speech, and actions.
This creates resistance or attachment though and keeps mental inertia going. This is where all the Self help gurus get it wrong. You don't break habit energy with resistance or attachment as that just creates feedback loops of thought, speech, and action. It is broken through development of witnessing awareness.
Not many have realized this. Especially the Self help guru types.
I prefer to ask them questions that might break their conditioning. Because racism and hate is a learned behavior. Asking the right questions may lead them to discover where they are ignorant and where their mind has been conditioned.
I stacked a little harder today than most days!
Bringing this idea to a Christian frame of reference it might be said that God (what is actual) is seeing through you.
Here is one more pointer to what I'm saying.
The mind and senses are what is being experienced, aren't they? Like in the example the mind and senses are the coloring that appears in the glass but when you take the orange juice away the clarity is still there.
Right now as you have a thought that thought is directly seen, isn't it?
Direct experiencing before mind and sense perception make interpretations about it.
This is a very simple recognition.
Basically what I'm saying is the same thing as when Jesus said "the son of man has nowhere to rest his head. " reality is appearing as thought, form, feeling, perception, and consciousness interpreted through the five senses. Yet there is no thought, form, perception, feeling, or consciousness that is not the expression of reality.
So relative truth can only be an appearance of absolute truth.
For example the thought "i am" is the expression of present awareness.
Of course we use logic to understand direct experiencing. But reality is here before our concepts about it is it not?
Logic can only take one to the threshold but reality is not a concept. Concepts are the expression of reality appearing through the human mind that tries to comprehend reality.
Week the problem with objective reality is its still defined by the senses when the discovery of the electromagnetic spectrum showed that what the senses are capable of interpreting is less than 1 millionth of reality.
Appreciate the conversation as well. It's easy to be kind when one doesn't hold views and beliefs very tightly. Character comes through in every action of mind, speech, and body.
I didn't come here to teach you. I came here to love you. Bitcoin will teach you. Bitcoin=love. Love is the recognition of the infinite interconnection of all life systems.
One more thing I will add that may clarify what I mean is when Jesus said "I am the truth, the life, and the way, no one comes to the father except through me. " he was not talking about his self entity but the light of his that sees and experiences through him.
It's very much like a zen koan. In fact when I read the Bible it's full of koans. I grew up catholic so I've read the Bible quite a bit. Reading and copying revelations after getting in trouble for asking questions they couldn't answer in Sunday school when I was 11 was one of the first times a samadhi experience happened to me.
The way I see it all religion is pointing at the same non-conceptual reality but using concepts to do it. Concepts about God is where they disagree in my experience. But God is by definition not conceptual. God represents what is actual of the reality under the vestment.
But basically yes relative truth is what we experience through the five senses and mind. Absolute is before the senses and mind. They are different but not separate. You might say the world is the manifestation of God's will. Yet if God is then how can God be anything but thusness?
There is a point where they converge, in the non-conceptual reality. The paradox is resolved in seeing that absolute and relative are themselves ideas about it. What is the reality before one conceptualizes about it?
You may find that this is where God is revealed. But yes the tree is still a tree, it just has no permanence as a tree being made of non- tree elements.
This article will help you understand better what I'm saying about relative and absolute if you give it a read.
Basically what I'm saying is absolute truth is what always is in the midst of coming and going of provisional truth.
There is no disagreement absolute truth or what you may conceptualize as God is appearing as the relative, and the relative is the expression of the absolute. Anyone who has recognized an absolute truth has never disagreed. There's a saying a fisherman recognizes a fisherman.
When you look at the actuality of things the idea of creator and created come secondary to creating. Do you conceptualize God as a noun or a verb?
What is actual in a thing? What is not compounded through causes and conditions? For example a tree is made entirely of non- tree elements, is it not?
Yes the story goes that his parents went to great lengths to keep him focused on himself and not aware of the 3 messengers. That's not to say not to have a self identity. Just know it's a useful tool for relative existence but ultimately interdependently originated.
This article will be helpful in integrating the 2 truths of relative and absolute.
Truth is truth before the senses and mind create interpretations about it.
I souks say you don't understand what the Buddhas teach. Study some chan or dzogchen then talk to me about it. Emptiness is often misunderstood as nihilism but the concept points to full/ emptiness. The Heart Sutra points to this as well.
Here is an article that reconciles the 2 truths of full/ empty.
Our very existence lies in the interdependent web of life. Bringing together the 2 truths of individual and collective resolves the paradox. The individual is in the whole, the whole is in the individual. They are different but not separate.
