The sense of individual existence or selfhood we typically identify with is only a tiny part of the whole that you are. The whole that you are means everything material and spiritual, seen and unseen, believed and not believed, excluding all of it. This suggests that the mind creates the concept of a separate and enduring self and that actual reality is devoid of such divisions. In this view, the boundaries we perceive between ourselves and the external world are artificial and do not reflect the underlying unity of existence. Recognizing and directly experiencing this underlying unity can lead to a profound shift in our understanding of ourselves and the world, bringing about a sense of oneness, wholeness, and interconnectedness, transcending the limitations of the individual ego.
The relative is an experience, and the absolute is beyond our imagination. We can’t identify what it looks like or what it is. We don’t know how it occurs, and there is no evidence that there is an entity. One may ask, well then, who manifested this relative experience? The answer is, who is asking? Oneness is asking Oneness who started Oneness. There is no start. There is no past or future; there is only now as it is, the eternal moment of now. Eternity is not a long time; it is the absence of time. There is no beginning, and there is no end. The beginning is the past, and an end is the future; they don’t exist; only now-ness exists. The present moment is more of an “experiencing” rather than an experience. It is always in flux, changing from instant to instant. There is only one stable aspect to experiencing: the non-doing conscious awareness witness to all the ever-changing activity. The non-doing, silent, unbounded consciousness has or contains this grand illusion of relativity appearing from moment to moment; it is not someone but just here and now.
The existence of here and now as a relative state is one of opposite positions. Relativity is not where I appear; it is my appearance. There is no me without another. Relativity is an experience, and an experience comes and goes, an opposite within opposites. Now and then, here and gone. The existence of an absolute state of here and now, the elusive present moment of eternity, cannot be intellectually verified. The limited ego/mind cannot know it. It is beyond any relatively allowable mechanism of investigation. The self-realized state of consciousness, where one sees the illusion of relativity and appreciates the absolute nature of Oneness, is not within the experience. You are the experience as an undefinable, unnameable source and expression of consciousness. The absolute is not experiential; however, there is a sense of relative experience in it but not of it.