The Absolute

"Truth? What is Truth?" Pilate mused when Yahshua answered him He came to testify of the Truth.

All things are relative, so therefore there is no absolute Truth.

But, if you follow that line of reasoning, then the statement itself is not absolute.

This implies that if one claims there is no absolute Truth, then this statement is not absolute, meaning that the opposite might be true, that there IS an absolute Truth.

But if there is an absolute Truth, then the statement which contradicts this is a LIE.

All things in this world are in motion.

If you sit in a chair watching cars go by, or you see the clouds floating across the sky, birds moving to and fro, then you may get the impression that you are still while everything else is moving around you.

Yet when you change your perspective and you can see yourself as part of a rotating Earth which orbits around the Sun, then you realize that from the perspective of the solar system you are in constant motion, even though you may have the impression of sitting still on a chair.

Einstein's relativity theory is based on this phenomenon where everything is in motion, and there is no absolute stillness in the universe.

Stillness is an illusion created by a limited and incomplete perspective.

Your senses may create the impression of stillness, but this impression of stillness disappears when we change our perspective.

Have you ever travelled by train, and as the train was waiting at the railway station another train was right next to you and appeared to be moving away from you?

But the moment you turned your head around and looked at the platform you noticed that it was not the train you observed which was moving away, but it was your train which was moving on.

By taking a different point of reference combined with the knowledge that this different point, -in the case of my example the platform-, cannot move, your perspective changed and you realized that your impression of stillness was just an illusion, and you were in fact moving.

Everything in our universe is in motion, even our solar system.

From our perspective our solar system appears to be anchored at a fixed point in the universe, and all other solar systems appear to be moving.

Yet seen from another perspective even our own solar system is in motion.

There is NO stillness in our dimension, and even in the dimensions beyond.

Even our concept of reality is relative.

We derive our idea of what is real and what is not from what our senses can register.

We can touch a wall, we can see the blue sky, we can smell an onion, all these things are registered and therefore considered as 'real' by our mind.

But suppose an Angel came down from Heaven and translated you so that you became part of the Angelic realm, and you were able to observe the physical reality from the metaphysical perspective.

Suddenly everything which you considered to be 'real' looks unreal to you, even the experience of time, just as from the physical perspective the metaphysical appears as 'unreal'.

From the metaphysical perspective the 'solid physical wall' suddenly is not solid anymore, but a projection of energy, very much in the same way as a holographic projection is an insubstantial projection of light to us.

Everything you thought of as 'real' now looks like a dream scenery, a simulation which you were part of, and your concept of reality and the meaning of Life changes drastically as a result of being able to see it from the greater perspective of the metaphysical reality.

But ultimately, even the metaphysical reality is relative.

In ALL of Creation you will search in vain for an absolute, because there is no absolute to be found.

Everything stands in relationship to other things, and all are relative and in motion.

That which we define as stillness is relative as long as our definition is based on the perspective of Creation.

So, there is no absolute, and there is no absolute stillness?

Ah, but you are making a classic mistake if you believe that.

There IS an Absolute, there IS an Absolute Stillness, and from that perspective we can define motion and reality accurately.

From the Absolute, Creation can be understood in its proper perspective.

You probably have guessed it by now: YHWH our Creator is the Absolute.

He is the Absolute Stillness, He is the Absolute Reality.

All things which are in motion and ALL realities which are to be found in Creation are defined and created by YHWH, and their exact definition and intensity of motion is determined and fixed by YHWH, the Absolute Center of Stillness and Reality.

All things we could possibly discover in Creation are relative to YHWH.

The moment we look away from Him and fix our eyes on Creation, we are immersing ourselves in relativity and non-absolutes.

When we assess motion and reality from our particular position within the motion and a given reality, we end up with a faulty incomplete picture, one which is the result of relativity and not based upon the perspective of the Absolute.

'Empty your mind', 'stay in the NOW', 'transcend your thoughts'!

I'm sure these slogans sound very familiar.

On the other side you hear the advice to 'repeat the mantra', 'recite scripture', 'focus on your picture of happiness', 'think positive'.

Although they aim to provide you with a stairway to Heaven, they do not rise above the fog of relativity.

All of them have in common that they take the one basic element which matters most out of the picture: it is not the emptying of the mind, not the mantra, not the verses of scripture, but it is the Ruach, the Spirit of our Creator which makes you part of the Absolute Stillness.

It is YHWH only Who can lift you up into His Absolute Perspective, and our Salvation consists of drawing our Soul completely back into the Absolute Stillness so that we can speak, act, think and do things which flow from the Absolute Stillness.

It is not the ideal of doing nothing which brings you the stillness you need, but the ideal of being part of YHWH's Stillness, and this Stillness can manifest itself in you sitting quietly in a chair enjoying YHWH's presence as you observe your thoughts, it can manifest itself in me writing this article, words emanating from the Stillness YHWH's Ruach brings into my heart.

The classic mistake many meditation practitioners make is that they fix their inner eye on something which is part of the motion and define their inner stillness relative to the objective of their choice.

Within Creation all things are relative and in motion.

So, when the objective of your meditation exercise is to 'empty yourself from your thoughts', then you have taken an idea of 'emptiness' as your reference point to your inner stillness.

That is the equivalent of appointing a chair on the veranda as your center of stillness, and the traffic passing you by as distractions from that stillness.

In doing so you forget that the appointed center of stillness is part of the motion of Earth.

You may focus on the repetition of a mantra as your guideway into stillness, but because you are not aiming your focus on your Creator, you end up crippling yourself by means of a stick which is relative and in motion, and the idea of inner stillness is really an illusion which is part of the motion.

By making yourself blind to your escapism into the motion you still remain part of the motion, no matter how much energy and time you invest in your particular form of escapism (which really is a form of denial).

There is only one way to escape the motion: by becoming part of the Absolute Stillness, which can be found in YHWH ONLY.

Yes, exercises such as Transcendental Meditation may have a (temporary) benefit on your health as you shift your attention away from that which caused your particular illness or weakness, but it does not take away the cause.

You may benefit in one area of your health, while years later you end up suffering in another area.

You have made the ideal of 'transcendence' your god, thus blinding yourself to the fact that your transcendence is an optical illusion caused by your fixation on your reference point by means of which you define transcendence.

In other words, rising above your thoughts and emptying your mind has become your ideal of stillness, but you made yourself blind to the fact that this idea of emptiness is just another part of the fabric of motion, as well as the fact that the empty mind which is not protected by YHWH's firewall  can be filled with unwanted metaphysical Forces your senses cannot register.

Perhaps you found beneficial effects in the 'Power Of Now', and you have dedicated your time to practicing the meditation exercise which aims to liberate you from being immersed in thoughts about past and future by focusing on the present.

Yet this meditation exercise too is nothing but a denial technique, because you have made the 'NOW' as your point of reference, an abstract  idea of the present.

And as is the case with ALL forms of denial, they turn into a form of idolatry where you end up worshipping the technique and the ideas behind the exercise, all of which are relative and part of the motion.

There is only ONE Elohim, ONE Creator, and it is ONLY in Him that you will find the Stillness which changes your perspective and takes you out of your thoughts so that you can be the master of your thoughts instead of the other way round.

Yes, we should be masters over our thoughts and not slaves identifying with our thoughts.

Thoughts can be manipulated, and it IS important to learn to observe and acquire objectivity towards your thoughts so that you can let YHWH, the Center of Stillness, deal with them.

Not that YHWH's Stillness equals the absence of thoughts, that is another classic mistake many make.

It is being part of the perspective of Stillness where you can rule over your thoughts.

You can be completely still in your mind when you are part of the Stillness, or you can muse on thoughts emanating from that perspective and yet be completely part of that Stillness.

What I am referring to is being filled by YHWH's Spirit, that is when you are part of the Absolute Stillness.

As I wrote in my previous article, our thoughts can be a big obstacle because they can be influenced by malignant Forces of Evil.

That is why it IS important to learn to observe your thoughts from the perspective of your Spirit ("Be Still And Know..."), but such observation can ONLY be effective if you center your Soul and Spirit in your Creator.

Without that reference point, where are you going to find the Stillness which truly takes you OUT of your thoughts because you are IN the Stillness?

That really the problem with many meditation exercises: they aim to take you out of your thoughts WITHOUT being part of the Absolute Stillness of YHWH, and that is always doomed to fail and become a denial mechanism of Truth.

Because there is only one Absolute Stillness, and it is ONLY this one form of Absolute Stillness which can save you from the Evil poison contained within certain thoughts and feelings, the only Stillness which is able to take you out of the motion of relativity.

ALL forms of meditation exercises and techniques which aim to quiet your mind are doomed to fail if they take YHWH out of the picture, because they inevitably end up focusing themselves on the paraphernalia, the things which are relative and part of the motion, and thus define stillness not by the Source of the Absolute Stillness, but by a perspective which still is part of the motion.

Emptying your mind will not suffice.

Filling your mind with 'scripture' will not suffice.

All too often you will find the Christian religious establishment overreacting to what they perceive as 'the threat from Eastern religions', and their reaction pushes them all the way over to the other side which is just as wrong.

You cannot derive Truth from a counter reaction.

You cannot be still by countering the turmoil of scattered thoughts with the turmoil of religious thoughts.

If you are upset because someone hurt you very deeply with malignant intent, then inevitably the assault of Evil upon your Soul will express itself in the form of ongoing thoughts which tend to repeat the scene over and over in your head.

You will NOT remedy this by using the words of a Psalm over and over again, using these words as a mantra.

If you do that, you are trying to counter the inner turmoil of negative thoughts by immersing yourself in a turmoil of religious sounding thoughts.

It will not help you one bit.

At best it will have a soothing effect because the words you repeat are associated with good childhood memories or something of that order, and your repetition of the words conjures up the feelings associated with the memories so that the Bible verses you use as a mantra end up function as a mental aspirin taking away the symptoms of the pain, but not addressing the cause.

In a situation as I have just described I always need to stand back from my thoughts, because they act as an Evil obstruction which tries to get between my beloved Creator and me.

I always do my best to stand back from thoughts in such a case and I cry out with my Soul to my Creator to reach out and lift me into His Stillness.

I cannot be still without Him.

Once My Heavenly Father fills me with His Stillness, then He may inspire thoughts which emanate from this Stillness.

That is how I write articles on this blog: from the Stillness I find in YHWH thoughts come into existence which teach me and give me insight I previously lacked, and they manifest in words which I write down.

Thus, by writing these articles I am not only building you up, but I myself am built up and given insight and understanding, and this really is the greatest reward I could possibly hope for, to be given jewels of wisdom and understanding by my Creator in person.

To address the cause of the compulsive rise of thoughts, which is the assault of Evil, you need to counter it with Good, and you will find Good ONLY in your Creator, just as you will find the liberating Stillness in YHWH ONLY.

One of the most important discoveries I was allowed to make in my Life is that I have NO Goodness within myself, just as I have NO Stillness within me.

I can be Good ONLY if I become part of YHWH's Goodness, and I can experience Stillness ONLY if I am centered in YHWH's Stillness.

That is why it is so important NEVER to make a meditation exercise your means of Salvation, because you end up crippling yourself and complicating the issue.

At best, it is a tool, an instrument standing in service of your desire to be part of YHWH's Stillness.

At worst, it is a tool helping you to escape from YHWH's Stillness.

If you need Stillness, by all means go sit in a chair and close your eyes, being aware of how the blood flows through your veins and of thoughts which try to steal your attention away from your awareness.

But NEVER make this your main objective, but rather use it as a crutch to help you get any obstacles out of the way between you and your Creator.

Your objective should be to reach out to YHWH and cry out to Him to be part of His Stillness and His Absolute Truth, because it is in YHWH ONLY you will find Salvation from Evil and the power to be Good.

Without that objective your meditation exercise is doomed to become a form of idolatry, and it will not cure you but rather mask the symptoms and worsen the cause.

Without the Absolute Stillness, the best we can hope for is relative stillness, which really is not stillness.

It is an optical illusion masking the fact that we are not still, but part of the motion.

Don't waste your time and money on purchasing materials which claim to lead you to the Utopia of Ultimate Stillness.

The only one who will benefit is the guru or author of the materials who will take your money and buy a nice big house and matching car.

YHWH is your Father, and He is there for you to help you.

All it takes is an investment in time on your part.

But even this word 'investment' may give you a wrong idea, as if you have to 'sacrifice' time.

No, the time I spend with YHWH is the best time of my Life, because in His presence I experience Joy, Goodness, Stillness, and if I shed a tear it is because of the Kindness and Goodness He pours out into my heart.

It is quality time, the best time of your Life, and as a bonus you are saved from the Evil trying to influence you in your Life as you become part of the Absolute Stillness and Absolute Truth.

The Satan made the mistake of falling for the Lie.

He made himself blind to the fact that YHWH is the Absolute.

'No', he thought, 'everything is relative, and I can be just as much an Absolute unto myself as YHWH claims to be an Absolute to us', thus denying the Absolute nature of YHWH.

YHWH defines all realities, and He defines Good and Evil.

All realities as well as Good and Evil are relative to Him, and when the Satan rejected YHWH he rejected the Absolute and became part of the motion of relativity.

He adopted his own idea of truth, and since 'all truth is relative, does this not imply that a lie has an equal value as truth and ceases to be a lie if you place it in a different perspective'?

Just as he denies Truth, he tries to create his own reality.

Like those who focus on the meditation technique as their point of reference for stillness are really defining motion as stillness because their point of reference is in motion and relative, the Satan's point of reference is a Lie from YHWH's Absolute perspective.

He rejects YHWH's paradigm of Good and Evil and embraces his own Machiavellian concept, he rejects YHWH's Truth in order to embrace his own idea of truth which stands in opposition to YHWH's Truth and therefore really is a Lie.

He sees himself as the superior intellect, but how superior can you be if you reject reality and make yourself blind to Truth, fleeing into a fantasy of your own thoughts?

Do not follow the example of the one who embraced a Lie and turned himself into a prisoner of a psychotic fantasy world which will end in destruction, but make it your goal in Life to find YHWH's Truth, YHWH's Stillness.

Without being intimate with the Truth of your Creator you will be susceptible to lies, without being part of the Absolute Stillness of your Creator you will be vulnerable to the turmoil of thoughts when Evil uses them as a battery ram against the gates of your Soul.

And you will find that intimacy in the One who is the gateway into Heaven, Yahshua.

Make it your first and primary objective to know Him and turn your heart to Him, because in Him you will find your Heavenly Father and the great Renewer, the Spirit of our Creator.

Whether you sit still on a chair seeking to be silent, or you ponder on a spiritual matter, do it as part of the greater objective of being close to your Creator.

Remember the words in Psalm 46, 'be still and know that I am YHWH'.

Learn to stand back from your thoughts in order to be part of YHWH's Stillness so that His thoughts may fill your mind.

Then you will be able to enjoy the blessed Stillness within the silence of your mind, then you will be able to enjoy the blessed Stillness within the thoughts flowing from the Stillness into your mind, then you will suddenly feel the presence of the Word urging you to do something, speak of write something which the Word will make known to you, and you will become an expression of Heaven on Earth.

Have a blessed Shabbat, the image of the Stillness and the Peace we find in our Heavenly Father YHWH and the sign He has given to His own.