With all respect, but you fail to understand me. Regards Meta
Yes, I do. 🙂
Hi Meta,
Can the sunray reconnect to the sun? Religion is an impossible attempt to connect the mortal to the immortal.
Perhaps this might help to shed some light on your question. "Reality" whatever it is, IS. In the relative world of things we can see that things all depend upon their relationships to each other and only exist in the context of these interrelationships. If you like we can also imagine a kind of interconnection of all things but we cannot really find it anywhere. In fact we cannot find any single thing in and of itself either because all things exist in relationship to each other. So looking at the relative existence of things and the absolute existence of All is just two ways we try to make sense of Reality with words and concepts. Reality itself is beyond these concepts yet these concepts still reflect some quality of reality.
It's like this. If we say that the relative truth (the specific case of each and every thing) is like the left hand and the absolute (the general case of all things) truth is like the right hand. They are just parts of Reality yet they are inseparable from it.
From my point of view this is a purely philosophical understanding but it has deep "religious" significance. It is the basis for believing in "Ultimate Reality" even if we can't quite understand what it is. We have to use some kind of metaphor. Perhaps we use the word "God" and relate this idea to creation, perhaps we use the word "sun" in distinction to "sunray." Sometimes we use the words "mortal" in distinction to "immortal" or in the case of the Buddha, "impermanence" and the "deathless." These are words which, in the final count, are metaphors. They are a kind of "religious" shorthand if you like. They bring hope and faith to those who are troubled. They make intuitive sense but supporting them with rational argument is a long path indeed. I can tell you that it is not worth embarking upon unless you are driven to do so. Even then you will only reach the end of such a path with great faith and hope. Some call this faith and hope in God or perhaps the Reality of Love. Without this hope there are many dangers.
Norbu