Perfume Of Wholeness

This is a beautiful reflection of Reality; it is well reflected in Buddhism's Two truths: The Relative truth and Transcendent Truth. However, if you, like I, feel dissatisfied after having read it, there may be a common cause. The Wholeness that is pointed to - the Transcendent Whole informing the Relative and separate - is only something that can be realized by an individual or a very small group of dedicated and interdependent individuals; such principles cannot be faithfully and effectively scaled to monasteries let alone families, neighborhoods, cities, states, countries, or affinity groups no matter how tightly bound. That's because there are so many relative truths that are dependent on relative perceptions, all of which rely exclusively on concepts that describe, differentiate, and separate things, people, processes, and meanings from one another. This article tickles our numinous sense but disappoints that part of us that exclaims, "Yes! But, how...." Only a collective "hive mind" that shares the same relative perceptions and meaning-making, and that subsumes the individual self for the sake of the collective, could bring about the manifestation of the Whole within the full scale of the Relative. Realizing Wholeness and acting from it is only possible for the individual, not the collective. So, what to do? Keep waking up, and acting with Love and Kindness toward all whom you encounter until it's time to transition to another World.