In Truth There Is No Coming or Going

📝Reflection

This verse asks the nature of meeting. To come without the form of coming means a true meeting lies not in physical distance. We think togetherness requires being beside one another — the same space, the same seat. But consider quietly: right next to someone yet far in heart, we are lonely; a thousand miles apart yet joined in heart, we are together. Recalling a friend who lives far, one who passed before us, a longed-for person — in form they are not beside us, yet in the heart they vividly come. That is the meeting of "coming without the form of coming." This insight greatly consoles a heart suffering from distance and parting. True connection is not severed by visible distance. If you hold one person deeply in your heart, they are already with you. When we move meeting from form to heart, we are no longer swayed by distance.