Relationship and the Awakened

What is relationship? Are there different types of relationship? To be related means to have a connection. To be connected is to be whole and at peace. To be unrelated is to be isolated. To be divided and in conflict. All existence is relationship. To live is to give life. We are related to all that is in the cosmos. The smallest most insignificant action in some way affects all that is or will ever be. Thought is engaged in duality and division which is the source of its isolation. The ideation of a self or separated individuality is the beginning of the mania of isolation. The self exist as thought as that which manipulates and causes individualized reaction. But is there any activity that is truly born of individual effort? The self being a product of thought is not separate from it, it is in fact thought. Individuality is the illusion. It is the pretension and extension of thought which is seeking permanence and continuity. One must come to the realization that all that exist is in relationship. To deny relationship is to create division, conflict, and violence. When thought creates the individual, it seeks to further individuality and division.
It adds to the image to give it a sense of power and exclusivity. Its looks for conformity and seizes that which will enhance individuality and isolation.


The self creates this fortress of individuality to stave off the perception of its end, of the reality of emptiness and non-existence. Relationship is the acknowledgement of the reality of the non-dual. The reality of the 'oneness' of existence. All that exist, exist because of relationship which is the causation of its interconnectedness. You could not have life without the life that is, both the sentient and non-sentient. If you owe your existence to all that is, why would you seek to destroy any part of it? To be awakened to this realization is to find the true self and realize the importance of relationship and to realize the full potential of humanity. This potential is the care and love of the cosmos. We may then realize what is in the seed of our consciousness, the consciousness of the cosmos, to care for each other and in so doing create life instead of destroying it.


To awaken to the actual reality of relationship and the fundamental importance of understanding the self and its destructive nature is to be free of it. To act out of intelligence that sees the truth of the moment. Truth that is not the outcome of religious, idealistic, or nationalistic motivations and aspirations. To be selfless is to exist in relationship that is totally free. The outcome of which is the vulnerability of love and the realization of consciousness that is unconditioned.