Ok class, the words of the day are “convergence” and “relativity.” 

  By convergence I am referring to the coming back together of all branches of human learning and belief. It is a burgeoning recognition that what once millennia ago diverged into East and West now is painfully and fitfully reintegrating into a larger and more comprehensive awareness of Life and humanity’s place in it. That, despite the economic and military civilizational warmongering taking place across the globe, is what is striving to be born today. 

  And what underlies this ever so gradual convergence? 

  Relativity, that’s what. 

  Not the physics and material relativity of Einstein but a living biological organic relativity, as well as a human cultural one into the bargain. 

  And that’s where I come back to my favourite saying here: Life is ALL there is. Life as the Flow, the Great Passing Through from one generation to the next; you and I and every living being here on earth this very instant are living expressions and participants in the Flow. We are living inflexions of the Flow. That’s right: you are It (or an expression of It you could say.)

  Truly grasp your identity and oneness with the Flow and you awaken to Satori, Enlightenment, Nirvana, Zen… whatever you want to call it. And then you awaken to the reality that we humans accomplish our Flow in communities, in groups, like the old saying ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ goes. Then you will genuinely comprehend that seemingly different villages amidst differing natural and historical temporal circumstances express and accomplish the Flow differently. You intuitively see that the Flow is ALL and how that Flow is accomplished and expressed is ultimately ‘relative’ to time and place. 

  Ok class, that’s it for today. 

  Now talk amongst yourselves! 

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