Only way to Truth, and great conversation with Mellowmarsh

[Ramasta9]

Setting all theories aside, I wanna know how you feel ? I wanna know how you interact with your parents, friends, animals, and nature?

How do you comfort someone who's crying, breathe in a stressful moment, or listen when someone is hurting? How do you act when no one is watching, or when all plans, ideas, and concepts fall apart?

What happens when you face real-life challenges, when all the talking and thinking don't actually help? Sometimes the deepest truths aren't just something to think or talk about, instead they show up in how we act, relate, and feel in our bodies.

What matters most is not what we know, but how we show up in life, because in the end, truth is lived, not just thought.

 

[James123]

3 hours ago, Ramasta9 said:

Setting all theories aside, I wanna know how you feel ? I wanna know how you interact with your parents, friends, animals, and nature?

How do you comfort someone who's crying, breathe in a stressful moment, or listen when someone is hurting? How do you act when no one is watching, or when all plans, ideas, and concepts fall apart?

What happens when you face real-life challenges, when all the talking and thinking don't actually help? Sometimes the deepest truths aren't just something to think or talk about, instead they show up in how we act, relate, and feel in our bodies.

What matters most is not what we know, but how we show up in life, because in the end, truth is lived, not just thought.

 

Without any worries.

Therefore, free within, and positivity to others is inevitable.

[zazen]

3 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

Then you realize that what your substance is is limitlessness; the absence of limits that you are translates into totality. Nothing is missing; you have always been that. What you are is outside of time; not  "happening." "Happen" is a possibility, an inevitable dance that occurs given the inherent instability of limitlessness. Nothing contains you; you are everything; nothing is missing; hallelujah, you are free.

I get you and agree with your larger post - all this limitlessness is true at the level of essence. It's just that it doesn't translate to form, which is limited by definition. Essence being limitless doesn't mean the expression of that essence is limitless - essence is absent of limits but not form. A expression or manifestation of the limitless is limited, even if its source isn't. The absolute created the limit to begin with.

The essence/form distinction honors both truths - that we are one (in essence), but many (in form/manifestation) - simply put, we are not the totality only a locality. We are parts (of a whole), but not apart (separate). And structurally, the part can't contain the whole - but only expresses the whole locally - just as the wave expresses the ocean.