What does it take to become God?

[Mellowmarsh]

1 hour ago, Someone here said:

Imagine if you created reality in such a way that you get instantly everything you want out of thin air . Just by thinking about it.  Imagine!!

whatever you want in a second.

That’s why time exists to stop everything from happening all at once.

[Mellowmarsh]

To become God you have to die for there’s no room in here for two. 
 

[Yimpa]

On 3/7/2026 at 2:31 PM, Yimpa said:

Love-4-Truth 

 

[Joseph Maynor]

On 5/7/2026 at 10:36 PM, Mellowmarsh said:

To find the Beloved. You must become the Beloved.

Interesting.  How does one become the Beloved?

[ladelle]

God appears when you disappear 

[Joseph Maynor]

16 minutes ago, ladelle said:

God appears when you disappear 

Do you feel this way entirely?

[ladelle]

23 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

Do you feel this way entirely?

Hmm, I don’t understand what you mean by this question

[Joseph Maynor]

4 minutes ago, ladelle said:

Hmm, I don’t understand what you mean by this question

Let's clarify.  What is God?  Who is God was my initial question.  

Edited 4 hours ago by Joseph Maynor

[Thought Art]

@Joseph Maynor

 

[Joseph Maynor]

Just now, Thought Art said:

@Joseph Maynor

 

Okay.  That is an answer.  I will review that video again.  

[prophet]

To become God is to become enlightened.  Enlightenment takes meditation, long periods of meditation.  You need to meditate for very long periods of time and to practice mindfulness frequently.  The eightfoldd path is to be a good persion and to meditate for very long periods of time. 

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[Thought Art]

@prophet That’s not God realization.

[Joseph Maynor]

Just now, Thought Art said:

@prophet That’s not God realization.

How could you discount someone's God Realization?  Epistemologically?  

[Thought Art]

@Joseph Maynor Because Meditation, especially in Buddhist context does not teach God realization. You can scour Buddhist texts, and the heart of what Buddha has taught and the 8 fold path… the Buddha did not develop a teaching of God realization. He developed a path of right being, solving suffering and increasing consciousness and relative human truth. But, nowhere is God explained in Buddhist texts. 
 

God realization, is not Enlightenment as is taught by Buddhists. I’ve never seen a Buddhist explain God. Could they exist? Could there be a rare text? Sure. But, meditation and the eightfold path is not God Realization. 
 

Buddhism doesn’t really talk about God and from I’ve seen doesn’t seem to be a major theme or question. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Thought Art

[Eskilon]

@Thought Art Buddha does teach God-realization, but not directly. The eastern method is not in your face. You can claim his methods are really hard to implement in this day and age because society and the human changed a lot, but make no mistake he was all about God.

The way to reach there according to him is through transcending suffering.

He documentend all his realizations on the sutras, all the 8 jhanas(physical and non-physical) and much more.

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[Thought Art]

@Eskilon Those are advanced teachings at their depth but they are not God realization. The word God isn’t even used by Buddha himself. 
 

God realization, as described by those who have had it… and to the extent I’ve experienced aspects of it is categorically different from Buddhism. Buddhism is very human. 
 

God, is not… 

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[Breakingthewall]

19 minutes ago, Thought Art said:

God realization, as described by those who have had it…

Maybe they had that god realization and it was a projection of their mind

[Eskilon]

1 hour ago, Thought Art said:

The word God isn’t even used by Buddha himself. 
 

God realization, as described by those who have had it… and to the extent I’ve experienced aspects of it is categorically different from Buddhism. Buddhism is very human. 
 

God, is not… 

The word God is not used in Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism and probably other religions too. But that is a function of style of teaching, specifically, the eastern way.

Do you really think Buddha, Mahavira and Lao-tzu didn't know what they were talking about? The vedas, Upanishads and all other spiritual text was there, Non-duality was all around, Rishis meditating left and right preaching that God is all, God is absolute, God is Brahman. All these people kwew these ideas, but they still went on with their style of not preaching the word God.

Buddhism is not about being human at all, no where it is claimed that you are human, Buddhism is about transcending the mind.

Edited 2 hours ago by Eskilon

[Thought Art]

@Eskilon No, buddhism does not address this in their teachings at the very least. 
 

In this conversation I am addressing the teaching of Buddhism… which do not address God Realization. You are moving the goal post which exhausts my ability to contemplate and address all those teachings. The fact that other religions existed predating it or at the same time doesn’t matter. We are asking if Buddhism is a path to God realization. Which it isn’t. 
 

Buddhism is 100% about being human and living well, transcending suffering, the mind… there is also things about karma life and death but even those descriptions are not God realization, etc. It’s a very practical teaching. It does not teach God realization. I’m not sure you know what I mean that God is isn’t human. Buddhism is a human system, and even the transcending of mind is a particular thing of human constructed consciousness. 

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[Thought Art]

1 hour ago, Breakingthewall said:

Maybe they had that god realization and it was a projection of their mind

Maybe! Or maybe it wasn’t. “Their mind” hmmmmm

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Thought Art