All the names of God.
A younger friend was telling me about her recent collission with her grandmother about religion and specifically about God and she wanted my opinion about that.
This is what I told her:
It gets eassier once you realize that there is no male or female god, that there is no christian, islamic, hindu or buddhist god. There also is no angry god nor a loving god.The only God that does excist is the Universal One, who needs no doctrine, no churches, no bibles, no punnishing or redirecting.What I belief in is that God is no being but a way to belief in.A path to follow, like I follow the path of Buddha.If you chose a path you will find that some of us are fanatic and that they force their own will up on you, because they were drilled that way by their own parents or a tragedy in their lives who left them no other choice than to be forced into whatever path they had to follow. Once you've chosen your own path you can start with a clean bill and take the lessons given to you or you don't take them. Or just take the ones who did help make you a better/stronger/lovingly person.Seeing the world as a creation from the one and only creator makes it a little less hard to understand, because underneath the pain and sorrow of today, you will also find breathtaking beauty, awesome clever geniusses, unbelievable clemency and stunningly deep reasonings, wich you might never have guessed they were there.If you believe that God/Creator/Spirit (no matter what or who you chose to call it) is in absolutely everything arround and inside you, you can start to see the wonder or miracle that makes you you, because everything is related. Everything has a bottom or a root. Look at the atoms in your body under a microscope, watch how a butterfly slips from a cocoon after it was a completely other being first (caterpillar), or find out how a storm was born by it's own intentions, where did it come from, why did it come your way instead of going south, east, north or west? Get in deeper in everything, watch, analyse, feel and write down everything, to the details.Who made a fly have facet eyes? What makes rock turn into gold or diamonds? What makes clouds have so many different colours and shapes? What made you cry last night and what would happen if you didn't feel that way? What made your grandmother that fanatic? Go in deeper and deeper untill you get that wonderfull Eureka! moment. Because that small Aha! feeling is in fact a very tiny enlightement. And when you get one, more will come and stronger and deeper and widening everything you see, feel, hear, say or think.That is also God, because "he" is inside of you as much as you are inside of "him". Take a deep breath of fresh air, hold on a few seconds and remember that in fact you are breathing in God. You drink it, you wash in it, you write with it and you sleep on it. It is in an animal, in every element on earth, it is in the lightening, in the rain, in the waterfall in a pool in wich kids are playing. Your clothings are made from it and even what you breath out is part of it. Every single cell in your body is made of it and so is Naveen and even the films he makes and the screen you are watching/reading this on and the keyboards you use to answer me. That all is god. And he needs no name, because names are language, names are confusing, names are for different people to call their self and the things they use and the people they meet. Even the names of Jesus, Mohammed, Krishna, Mary, Kwannon, Saraswati, Gaia, Tara, is just a different name to the One and only, the Universal One.I started out with Jesus, then met Krishna, I read books written about Mohammed and encountered Buddha, and later I found out that I have been praying to the same god, no matter what name or how I prayed, in what language or in what building. It is all The Same Universal One. People just need something to hold on to, like an umbrella and they call their umbrella names.....
This is what I told her:
It gets eassier once you realize that there is no male or female god, that there is no christian, islamic, hindu or buddhist god. There also is no angry god nor a loving god.The only God that does excist is the Universal One, who needs no doctrine, no churches, no bibles, no punnishing or redirecting.What I belief in is that God is no being but a way to belief in.A path to follow, like I follow the path of Buddha.If you chose a path you will find that some of us are fanatic and that they force their own will up on you, because they were drilled that way by their own parents or a tragedy in their lives who left them no other choice than to be forced into whatever path they had to follow. Once you've chosen your own path you can start with a clean bill and take the lessons given to you or you don't take them. Or just take the ones who did help make you a better/stronger/lovingly person.Seeing the world as a creation from the one and only creator makes it a little less hard to understand, because underneath the pain and sorrow of today, you will also find breathtaking beauty, awesome clever geniusses, unbelievable clemency and stunningly deep reasonings, wich you might never have guessed they were there.If you believe that God/Creator/Spirit (no matter what or who you chose to call it) is in absolutely everything arround and inside you, you can start to see the wonder or miracle that makes you you, because everything is related. Everything has a bottom or a root. Look at the atoms in your body under a microscope, watch how a butterfly slips from a cocoon after it was a completely other being first (caterpillar), or find out how a storm was born by it's own intentions, where did it come from, why did it come your way instead of going south, east, north or west? Get in deeper in everything, watch, analyse, feel and write down everything, to the details.Who made a fly have facet eyes? What makes rock turn into gold or diamonds? What makes clouds have so many different colours and shapes? What made you cry last night and what would happen if you didn't feel that way? What made your grandmother that fanatic? Go in deeper and deeper untill you get that wonderfull Eureka! moment. Because that small Aha! feeling is in fact a very tiny enlightement. And when you get one, more will come and stronger and deeper and widening everything you see, feel, hear, say or think.That is also God, because "he" is inside of you as much as you are inside of "him". Take a deep breath of fresh air, hold on a few seconds and remember that in fact you are breathing in God. You drink it, you wash in it, you write with it and you sleep on it. It is in an animal, in every element on earth, it is in the lightening, in the rain, in the waterfall in a pool in wich kids are playing. Your clothings are made from it and even what you breath out is part of it. Every single cell in your body is made of it and so is Naveen and even the films he makes and the screen you are watching/reading this on and the keyboards you use to answer me. That all is god. And he needs no name, because names are language, names are confusing, names are for different people to call their self and the things they use and the people they meet. Even the names of Jesus, Mohammed, Krishna, Mary, Kwannon, Saraswati, Gaia, Tara, is just a different name to the One and only, the Universal One.I started out with Jesus, then met Krishna, I read books written about Mohammed and encountered Buddha, and later I found out that I have been praying to the same god, no matter what name or how I prayed, in what language or in what building. It is all The Same Universal One. People just need something to hold on to, like an umbrella and they call their umbrella names.....
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