Uniting the Relative and the Absolute

Let’s explore the idea of being more or less loving. We could say that one of the common goals of the spiritual aspirant is to become a more loving person, correct?

For sure.

Let’s look at how this evolution works from both the relative and the absolute perspective, as well as how those two interact.

Love, from the Relative Perspective

On the relative level, the level of appearance, form, and humanness, we can and often do become more loving.

Along our journey, we may discover that there really is no such thing as an opposite to anything. This is an illusion in duality. Everything is Love.

Instead of the idea of opposites, we upgrade to the idea of gradations. For example, rather than looking at a spectrum of distinct polar opposites such as hot and cold, we simply notice that there’s a gradation of molecular movement from infinitely slow (without ever actually stopping) to infinitely fast (without ever reaching any maximum). Hot and cold are simply arbitrary relative markers we make up and place upon a linear scale. Instead of polar hot and cold, we simply have one term called temperature.

Bringing this idea back to Love, being less loving, to the point of resisting love, we call this fear. On the flip side, being more loving, in the form of allowing love to flow through us, we call this love. There is resistance to love and surrender to love, but not actually fear.

Okay cool, but there’s still a breaking up of the whole into many little pieces, which is what happens when the absolute moves into the relative.

Love, from the Absolute Perspective

The True Self, Source, whatever you want to call it, it is infinite unconditional Love. It is whole, complete, total, and beyond measure. It can not be diminished in any way whatsoever and is not subject to any scale.

While the subjective experience of the totality may be limited, the totality itself never is.

In this way, not only is there no opposite to Love, there is also nothing less than pure Love.

No gradations. No scales. No more or less. No measurement system whatsoever. Just pure Love completely as it is.

What is just is. That’s it.

(It’s incredibly simple when there’s no mind involved…)

Uniting the Relative and the Absolute

When we talk about raising our level of consciousness or raising our vibration, what we’re really doing is bringing the relative human aspect of ourselves into alignment with the core essence of our absolute Self.

In the state of surrender, your form identity softens and becomes somewhat “transparent,” as it were, so the Unmanifested can shine through you.

-Eckhart Tolle

You know Jesus Christ? What does his name mean?

(Hint: Christ is not Jesus’ last name!)

Jesus is the name of the very human man, the fleshy meat suit that walked the earth.

Christ is a universal name that points to the infinite consciousness that is everyone’s true nature. Christ Consciousness, Buddha Nature, Krishna Spirit… these terms all point to the one infinite true self.

Jesus Christ (Relative Absolute) united his relative and absolute selves and consciously brought them into vibrational harmony while living here on earth.

Gautama Buddha (Relative Absolute), same thing. Siddhārtha Gautama united his physical presence with the Buddha nature.

In this dream called physical reality, the characters such as Jesus and Gautama woke up within it, like lucid dreamers, and allowed their dream characters to be connected back to the Source/Christ/Buddha so that that light could shine through into the dream.

This experience they called Heaven or Nirvana.

Simultaneous Coexistence of the Relative and the Absolute

Remember, the idea is not to escape earthly existence and go to heaven (or some other enlightened state of consciousness) somewhere else. We could call this hiding in the absolute which arises from the idea that there’s something wrong with the relative or the illusion.

So rather than trying to flee the relative and abide in only the absolute, we can unite heaven and earth, by bringing heaven down to earth. (Vibrationally speaking though, perhaps a more accurate description would be “bringing earth up to heaven.” Source never comes down to match the relative.) Either way, this unification is just another way of pointing to the integration of the relative and the absolute.

From Connection to Integration

Again, there is only Here. There is ONLY Here. There is no escaping Here. On the level of form, there is only the transformation of what arises Here. That’s it. This is Creation.

While you are Here, you can awaken to the presence of the nameless, formless, silent presence that can be called Tao or Source. This Absolute being (being, not like a cat or a dog or a human being or a big bearded guy in the clouds, but just isness itself) is infinite Love. You can connect to this and feel it “flowing through you.”

“It is not I, but the Father within me who does these works.”

The relative you continues to raise in vibration as it progressively comes closer to matching the vibration of the absolute you, through this connection to Love.

Then from being “connected” to Love, unification with Love happens and the two become the One they always were.

“The Father and I are one.” (Father isn’t a male parent as some religions imagine, but rather the Source of Creation that gives rise to all form.)

So while there is always infinite Love on the level of formlessness, there is also the dance of infinite gradations of love and fear in the illusory dream world of duality.

You are BOTH… and neither.

Enlightenment

Enlightenment is about remembering who we really are and then allowing the story of you and me to fall away and come into full alignment with that which we truly are.

Full alignment in the physical plane is total enlightenment, the complete end of the idea of separation, the maximum vibrational limit of physicality before the physical vibrates its way into a higher plane of existence, beyond the perception of physicality. In the same way that sound can vibrate faster and faster to the point where our ears can no longer detect it due to their limited spectrum, the physical us can vibrate our way right out of physicality, into a higher non-physical realm… but we’ll explore that later.

Let’s just say that full enlightenment is not the end of our evolution by any means. It’s simply the end of forgetting who we really are which allows for the Oneness of the absolute and the relative to come together that much more.