So what exactly is God?

[Mellowmarsh]

Is that the one question to all our answers?

 

Your turn…

[Hyperion]

 

[Someone here]

Imagine taking a cup and going to the beach and you try to contain the whole ocean inside a cup. That’s like the finite mind trying to contain the infinite . It’s unknowable . Infinite mystery .  We can approach higher and higher detailed understanding but I gave you the big picture . 

[Someone here]

Also give this an open mind and try to understand what he is saying . I know he is boring with his slow motion talking but it’s short clip.

[Mellowmarsh]

My two pence for all it’s worth….

 

God is the oxygen being inhaled and exhaled until the last exhale. 

[LastThursday]

I could be provocative and say that god is just a construction of the mind or just a word. But I'm not going to say that.

In the spirit of the question, god is the thing you fall back on when you run out of explanation. For example I look around me and there's all this stuff happening, I can come up with an explanation as to why all this stuff is happening, but I can't come up with an explanation of why this in particular. There seems to be complete arbitrariness about what I'm experiencing, I could have been any one of 8 billion people at any moment in history, indeed even an animal.  So I invoke god.

Once you invoke god, then you have to ask what is god's nature? And the only satisfactory answer (to me) is that it is exactly what I'm experiencing - the two are the same. So it's the other way round, me and my mind are a construction of god. 

[Breakingthewall]

God is the unlimited. It's one and multiple, and it's you. It's not omnipotent or omniscient in the sense of choosing, it's in the sense of being.

God is, and you are that, not other. In this exactly moment the absolute is, it's your now, but it's veiled by the human density. You can open your mind and your heart to it but first you have to make all your emotional structure transparent. That's the spiritual work, not anything else. It's very simple and very difficult. 

[Breakingthewall]

2 hours ago, LastThursday said:

I can come up with an explanation as to why all this stuff is happening, but I can't come up with an explanation of why this in particular.

Why not? It's just a potential possibility happening. One possibility has to happen, so this one. nothing special in it. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Breakingthewall

[LastThursday]

1 hour ago, Breakingthewall said:

One possibility has to happen

It does. But saying it's one possibility out many doesn't explain it. Furthermore it doesn't explain the quality of this particular experience. It's not as if it's just a blank field of X, it's a chaotic, structured, "full" experience.

[Breakingthewall]

24 minutes ago, LastThursday said:

It does. But saying it's one possibility out many doesn't explain it. Furthermore it doesn't explain the quality of this particular experience. It's not as if it's just a blank field of X, it's a chaotic, structured, "full" experience.

Simply discard what's not possible and what's inevitable remains. Look:

First, you see that any manifestation is movement; without movement, there is no "happening."

Second, you see that any movement is a relative change of state, a fluctuation. What changes state? Reality. It is something insofar as it changes state.

Third, you see that for a relative change of state to be stable, it must be sufficient coherent and synchronous. Anything that is not sufficient symmetrical, synchronized without deviation, is not possible. It disappears before it appears. Then, these synchronous changes of state overlap without limit, creating realities, like a kaleidoscope.

4. why stable relative changes happens? Because those that are not stable doesn't happen. Yes but no change could be? No because it would be an absolute limit. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Breakingthewall