Relative and Ultimate Reality

[kdsii]

Question to you all:

Knowing that all things are ultimately one, how do you not completely lose touch with your own comparatively small world?


This has been my puzzle for a while - For me, the more I learn it seems, the more apathy I have for our endless tail-chasing and squabbling, and the less interest I have in helping at all.
See what you think about this, it's from "No Chain At All", by Barbara Brodsky, channeling Aaron.

[Aaron speaking]
Here is where you find the balance between wide view and relative reality. You stand
on a threshold with a foot on each side. With clear seeing, you know it is only a door
frame. There is no wall dividing ultimate and relative reality. It simply becomes useful to
understand that the illusion of relative reality is another tool, to be employed where
useful. You dwell in Ultimate reality but must live in a world of relative reality. You
balance between them, never mistaking relative reality for anything but the tool.
You use a screwdriver when you want to tighten a screw. You are not the screwdriver.
Your hand holds the screwdriver. You know it is a tool. When you wish to transcend
small ego self and experience true being, you use meditation practice as a tool. You
use a watcher as a tool.
And yet this analogy is not quite accurate. Meditation is the tool and also the end.
Meditation is most accurately a state of being, not an action. We use the techniques of
practice to arrive in a space of meditation, at which point we know there is nowhere to
go. There was never anywhere to go, only to arrive where you have always been. In this
space you are not aware, but are awareness. Being aware is freedom, not doing
awareness. I do not wish to become confusing. No accurate analogy can be offered.
The tool is put down when the screw is tight. There is no longer separation between the
parts. The raft is left on the far shore. Ego mind with delusion of a self who practices is
released to deeper truth.
It is this deeper truth of which I wish to speak, and the ways we may arrive at that truth,
at that resting place which is non-dual awareness, Ultimate Reality, or call it what you
will. As I have just said, meditation practice is a tool to help remove the obstacles to
pure awareness so you may enter this natural state. Thus, meditation is not a path to
achievement. How can you gain what you already have? Rather, it is a path to
releasing that which blocks pure awareness.

[Aureus]