Depth of Relating is the Ground of Truth

Keep in mind that your 'awakening' will be directly correlated with your personally assessed value. Therefore, if you seek to have truth transmitted from master to student, then clearly you do not value yourself as you demand that another must be of more value than you in order to save your pitiful 'self.'

Furthermore, even though you may receive your blessed "truth-transmission" from the master, you must never reach the master's level which means that there can never be an 'equality' to the engagement. Which then begs the question, what was transmitted?


However, if the master you choose to engage with is authentic, then there will be no hierarchy between you, no ranks, levels or degrees. Contrary to popular opinion, absolute truth does not conform to hierarchies, since this only confirms the "truth" of relativity, which is not truth at all.

Truth is the great equalizer and therefore excludes no one. Hierarchies must exclude based on relative approximations of what is true and false. Truth does not contrast through values, but is the ground of all relative value. Therefore, the master must be relinquished the moment you meet, else a 'difference' will come between you and inequality will be contrasted and relative truth is what you have attained.

The authentic master knows this as fact and would never allow you to sit at his or her feet.

• The authentic master would not sit upon a platform surrounded by a shrine of flowers facing an audience of the anonymous.
• The authentic master would not write books giving you worn-out old platitudes, thereby, intellectualizing an experience that can only be directly encountered with, and through, another.
• The authentic master would not create a lexicon of specialized concepts requiring years of arduous study.
• The authentic master would not teach you practices that serve only to absorb you into your ‘self’ where truth is not found.

Yet, the authentic master would deeply engage with you in an 'intimacy-of-awakening' and from the depths of that relationship you would know Truth... as so would the "master." The true master has no truth to pass on, only the truth to engage with together so that both may have it the same.

In the depths of relationship you will find the Ground of Truth and together create it. This is how reality is 'created' and our current 'reality' highlights our relative alienation as opposed to intimate engagement. The macro-world merely reflects your micro-world experience and just as whole populations are adverse and alienated with one another, so are you and the ones you profess to "love."

We are a world of relative strangers drowning in a surface pool of adverse alienation.

The authentic master knows that no “master” is needed and you are just as likely to experience this intimate awakening with anyone. Christ asked that you "love thy neighbor as thyself" because only by loving "thy neighbor" can you love yourself. This is because there is no division even though, in the delusion of relativity, you made one up.

The problem is, you require the “master” be sought and found, simply because you are less valuable. An authentic master will play that game with you only so far, waiting for you to realize that Truth is not from him, separate and apart, but is a closing of the gap between you both, from which "awakening" is encountered and, in fact, created.

Relative truth makes you dependent on another. Absolute Truth does not compel dependency, but it does demand union.

Otherwise it is just the transmission of somebodies relative “wisdom” and wisdom is not Truth (although it can masquerade as truth). The world is full of relative wisdom, but this barely dents the delusion of relativity.

Truth is known to all or no one. We are all waiting separately to be enlightened. But this cannot happen until we all agree to wait together.

So before you seek out your master, free yourself of all fear and prepare yourself for an intimate awakening by fully engaging in the depths of an engagement not yet experienced.

Better yet, forget the master and turn to the one next to you.

You have come close before, but always you denied the master was there with you and so it was lost and you went off on search of your true "master." How many "masters" will it take before you realize that the master is you, but only when joined with another?