The Absolute Reality

Before, after, and always, there is only the Absolute Reality, the Uncreated Source, the Supreme Reality. It forms the basis of the mystical experience. It can be described positively, as in the Vedantin Sacchidananda - Infinite Being, Infinite Consciousness, Infinite Bliss - or negatively, as in the Buddhist Shunyata and the Upanishadic and Dionysian "negative theology"

Strictly speaking, the Absolute Reality is not a "level" of reality at all; for to interpret it as such would be to relativise It, whereas It is beyond all relativity and relationships; the essential Reality behind all the other realities. It is eternal, infinite, ever-perfect, ever-blissful, and totally unitary. It is the Brahman, Atman, Buddha-nature, Tao, the Absolute, Godhead of various philosophies and theologies.

The Absolute and Relative Realities	Unmanifest Unmanifest	Unmanifest Absolute	Consciousness Absolute	Godhead Absolute	Creative Absolute
The Absolute Reality	The Manifest Absolute	Manifestation	Monism	Mysticism	Eastern Philosophy

Some descriptions of the Absolute Reality in mystical literature.
all quotes from

Mysticism in
World Religions

the Upanishads
the Tao-te-Ching of Lao-tzu
the Hua Hu Ching of Lao-tzu
Chuang-tzu
the Bhagavad Gita
Bodhidharma (5th Century)
Ahmad Ibn `Ata'Allah (13th C.)
Cloud of Unknowing
Eckhart
Ramakrishna

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