Truth is not relative. But what about relativity then? Insofar as any aspect of life, or point within its totality, is treated as distinct, isolated, as if it exists in separation- then enter relativity, these isolated points existing in relation to each other. But insofar as the distinct reality of the points is illusory, that they do not exist in isolation, in some imaginary self-contained realm apart from the whole within which they have their inseparable being- then, no, relativity is not truth. Truth and life, or the truth of life, aren't relative; truth's being isn't in relation to anything else. It isn't set against falseness, for example, compared and contrasted with an unreality which doesn't truly exist. Relativity is 'true' in the sense of the illusion of the reality of the points within life as distinct, but this distinctness is illusory. The points are inseparable from life and life inseparable from them.
Consider there being only one point and this as the whole. Would it be relative? No, because there would be nothing for it to be relative to. And so with life. And no, life isn't relative to death, for death is non-existence and non-existence doesn't exist, so how could life be in relation to something which doesn't exist?
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