Zen Story: The master talks about God, and creation, in both relative, and absolute terms

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The Zen master, Hertlick Resploslock, was answering a question of one of his students about whether God, is relative, or absolute. The Student had thought that our own existence was relative to God's absolute existence. The Zen master put him right like this: "Love is never relative, but absolute at all times, as is God, and you can choose to be so, too, and yet, each choice is a relative choice to choose the absolute, or the relative, but in the end, every choice is absolute, as it can never be changed, and all choices affect your absolute position, as it is in God's creation too." "God can change, though, in his own position within oneness, and so God can be relative to himself, at the same time as he is being absolute to all parts of his creation." "We can all fill such roles. And so, we can be both relative, or absolute, depending on how we make our choices, as can God too." "Relativeness, or absoluteness, is therefore a description of our choice, not qualities that intrinsically exist within oneness, of itself." "Choice is a capacity within us, to choose, not something that stands alone." "Relativeness, and absoluteness do not stand alone, but are features of God's oneness, that we can observe as being part of how it works, and these two opposite qualities are a part of the dual world too." "We need to cast all aspects of duality into the oneness fires of our heart though, and then God, will see to it that we live from the same absolute level of love as does he does too." "Love can never be relatively given, for it to remain pure love." Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com We are all on a relative, individualised, path to Heaven, but we must be absolute about this too, to move along it to our final destination. Otherwise, we become lost in the relative possibilities of it all, never moving towards the absolute truth, but living from its shadows instead.