You do realize that if you were speaking the truth as you know it to be when you pressed "Submit" after completing your answer that you were doing the will of The Absolute? This is the spontaneity after reflection to which I was referring in a previous thread, which I see as being no different than speaking the truth after one has, as you put it, desired for the truth.RZoo wrote:I can envision a very feeble and weak consciousness which neither hates nor loves, a consciousness that is beyond all judgement and valuation, even of life or death. Such a consciousness would have to be cared for by others, lacking the motivation or reason to lift its arm even to feed and sustain itself. Therefore, I envision this consciousness lying in a hospital bed with atrophied muscles, almost comatose. I judge this consciousness not as the pinnacle of humanity, but as a pinnacle of human sickness. While it may be true that this consciousness has less delusions than the rest of us and dwells in the "absolute truth", he is missing something key! He is missing the realization of his own sickness, the realization that his unwavering desire for "truth" is what makes and keeps him sick, the realization: "What is 'truth', but another metaphysical lie and falsehood that we humans have invented to torture each other? And now I am being tortured, to the point of death, by this cruel concept, this illusion?" If he can grasp this, the tremendous, useless burden of "the absolute" will be lifted and all he will be free to get up off the hospital bed and start living life.movingalways wrote:Your thoughts above are perfect examples of the mind's natural urge to divide and conquer taken to suffering's peak, that is, into the expression of hatred. Do you envision a consciousness beyond hatred that integrates its necessity to reject but no longer requires this necessity? And if so, do you accept or reject this vision?
You may have, as I once had, a misunderstanding of what it means to "dwell in the absolute." It does not mean you have all the answers or that you no longer need answers or that you have found the permanent right answer, rather, that you know the right answer will come, for now, if you rest your question in the answer realm. If I use the biblical metaphor of The Father and Son, The Father is the answer, the Son is the question, I and the Father are One. This is the meaning of knock and the door shall be opened, seek and the answer shall be given to you. Suffering/release from suffering, suffering/release from suffering, this is the Way and the Truth and the Life of the Son who loves the Father, aka, wisdom. Some call the Father the conscience, let your conscience be your guide.
The consciousness I was referring to in my original question is the consciousness of accepting the relationship of the question to the answer, the relationship of darkness (suffering) to light (release from suffering). Which means one can let go of their hatred of having been made to suffer. What is the point of hating something that is a requirement for knowing? I don't know if you are familiar with the singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen, but this lyric from his song "Anthem": “There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.”
Some believe the light should or can or does exist independently of the darkness (the will to stop thinking/questioning) which is what I believe you were alluding to above when you spoke of a consciousness that is above all judgment or evaluation, but the wise ones know that the Father is nothing without the Son, that they come as a package deal, and that when they come, neither love or hate is being spoken.