Measuring tape

Was ”talking” to my friend yesterday. About understanding things “enlightenment”.

I said, well… sort of, I wished for a more modern vocabulary instead of the limited understanding of 3000 yrs old wisdom. In the old days they had not the knowledge of nature that we have to day. I would whish that new understanding would apply to modern men and to be compared to scientific knowledge. Not only to ancient people. At least to me it creates misunderstandings. Especially the concept of “illusion”. And “nothing exists”. And the fact they say The Absolute is EVERYTHING and NOTHING but yet limiting it saying “this or that is not real”.

It is like the two ends of a measuring-tape. The tape is “infinite”! The “first” 10 cm is the human beings and material world. The “last” 10 cm is the Absolute awareness. Or is it the opposite? Does not matter really!

Both ends claims that the other end don´t exist and not the middle part either. Their respective part of the tape is the only truth. They are equally wrong. It is as wrong of the human being to claim that spirits and Absolutes don´t exist as it is for the Absolute to claim that human and Maya don´t exist.

EVERYTHING is in existence. Both human senses and the awareness of the Absolute is limited to their respective environments. Both sides has to acknowledge and experience the other side as well as every inch between them. (Metaphore) There are breaches between the ends but the middle seems to be forgotten entirerly.

Unless that is not done, I say you are not finished.

And now, how the h-l is my “hits” and Dark Night connected to this above “knowledge”?
And how does the "misfortune" in life apply to it? Very acute these days. :-(