My understanding of God

[gengar]

11 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

God is you.

Do you know what is going on other planets?

Isn't this implying that the same self that is limited by the body, by a name, that will perish and die - this illusory self that God is dreaming - is the one who is imagining and creating the universe?

If my real self is the God self, that is unbound by any body or any limiting attributes whatsoever, why suddenly add the limited knowledge of the human self to the attributes of God?

 

[gengar]

11 hours ago, Inliytened1 said:

You're confusing it again.  Omniscience isn't knowledge. It is understanding. Knowledge is an illusion. 

How is it an illusion? I can be conscious that the video game that I am playing is an illusion, yet I can still have knowledge of it.

I can have knowledge of the layout of my city while knowing it is imaginary.

[Leo Gura]

14 minutes ago, gengar said:

Isn't this implying that the same self that is limited by the body, by a name, that will perish and die - this illusory self that God is dreaming - is the one who is imagining and creating the universe?

If my real self is the God self, that is unbound by any body or any limiting attributes whatsoever, why suddenly add the limited knowledge of the human self to the attributes of God?

Your human self is a confusion overlaid on top of God.

If you strip your human ego self of all it's crap, God will remain.

The human self is crap encrusted on top of God.

Think of God as a battleship and your human self as barnacles encrusting its hull. Under all the barnacles is Pure Infinite Mind.

The Pure Mind underneath the human self is God.

Edited 4 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Mellowmarsh]

There is no “my understanding” of God. 

There is a thought created story told about “my understanding” but the thought-created “story” doesn’t refer to anything at all.
 

There’s no requirement or necessity to theorise this immediate aliveness.If you stop thinking, aliveness is still there.
Being-ness is still there absolutely unchanged.

[Someone here]

4 hours ago, VeganAwake said:

God is a fairy tale, a completely made up story that has caused all kinds of human delusion and needless suffering!

Look at the big picture of what this delusional concept has caused!

You can keep that garbage 🗑 

If the word “God “ triggers you , replace it with “Reality “.

[Someone here]

1 hour ago, Mellowmarsh said:

There is no “my understanding” of God. 

There is a thought created story told about “my understanding” but the thought-created “story” doesn’t refer to anything at all.
 

There’s no requirement or necessity to theorise this immediate aliveness.If you stop thinking, aliveness is still there.
Being-ness is still there absolutely unchanged.

Yes , nobody said that you have to understand the reality you are living in . You can survive just as fine without understanding anything. A cockroach doesn’t have to understand anything to survive . But you can choose to understand if that’s your thing .

[Mellowmarsh]

1 hour ago, Someone here said:

A cockroach doesn’t have to understand anything to survive . But you can choose to understand if that’s your thing .

When you choose to understand reality , all that you will discover is that the only understanding that can be understood absolutely is that you have the exact same sense of self-importance as that of a cockroach.