My understanding of God

[Leo Gura]

10 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

The point is the term "infinity". 

The term infinity means something that never ends, for example the odds numbers, but it is limited to the odds numbers. Infinity is a dimension and it's used in mathematics . God is prior that any dimension. God is not "a lot of things that never end", is what those things are, it's source, it's essence. God is not hidden in those things, is expressed by those things. Those things could be infinite, but God isn't , it's non dimensional, but it's expressions are infinite. Do you see the point? I think it's essential. 

Infinity is not about mathematics. Mathematics does not know what Infinity is.

[Breakingthewall]

10 minutes ago, PolyPeter said:

I think we actually agree, we're just using "infinity" differently.

You're taking it in the mathematical sense: a quantity or a dimension that never ends, like the odd numbers. But as you said yourself, that kind of infinity is still limited to something. That's exactly why it's not what we mean when we say God is Infinity.

Here infinity just means no limit, no boundary, nothing outside of it. Something prior to any dimension, not contained in anything, the source and essence of everything, is exactly that. What you're describing as "non-dimensional" is what Leo and I are calling infinite.

So the disagreement is about the word, not about God.

Yes but the point is deeper, it's about "infinity" implies being, and being implies dimension. 

Look: Someone might say that the fact of being is absolute because non-being is not, therefore only being is; but of course, that is within the "being" dimension. The dimension, or non-dimension, of "non-being", which implies all possibilities, is not included in being; therefore, being is one face of reality, the affirmative face.

What Vedanta mystics called Sat-Chit-Ananda: what is, while being, perceives itself and, given its unrestricted totality, manifests as absolute bliss.

But that being is the affirmative face of reality, the luminous, illuminated face. Then there is the lightless face, unfathomable, dimension-less. It is within this face that total life resides. It is the great mystery: the nothingness that is not, yet lives, and whose life is total.

 

 

9 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Infinity is not about mathematics. Mathematics does not know what Infinity is.

Infinity means that have not end, but always implies dimension. 

 

[Inliytened1]

27 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Infinity is not about mathematics. Mathematics does not know what Infinity is.

Rather math is one aspect of infinity  

[Leo Gura]

I can tell who understands God just by how they use the word infinity.

[Inliytened1]

6 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

I can tell who understands God just by how they use the word infinity.

We have taught that God is Infinity for years now.  So if they don't understand it by now.  But your episodes on Absolute Infinity.  Man. The castle of David in the sand.  That was some amazing stuff.  They just need to listen to that.

Edited 59 minutes ago by Inliytened1

[Breakingthewall]

15 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

I can tell who understands God just by how they use the word infinity.

I can tell who understands God just by perceiving how pure is their heart . 

You can't understand God, you can be open to it.

Edited 49 minutes ago by Breakingthewall

[Leo Gura]

15 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

You can't understand God

Yes you can.

Kindness does not equate to understanding of God.

Edited 35 minutes ago by Leo Gura

[Breakingthewall]

9 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Yes you can.

You can understand the structure of reality, it's simple. Absence of limits implies possibilities happening, anything that appears is relative to another state, being means change and reality lives. 

But you can't understand what the source of life is, because it's not something, it's the absolute potential that is prior to any dimension. You can perceive it, it's in you, it's what we are, but you can't understand it because "understanding" is just a dimension that arises as an expression of the unfathomable. 

You could see that I'm one who wants to understand everything, but after some point the structures must fall. 

Anyway, always open to amplify my perspective 

Edited 29 minutes ago by Breakingthewall

[Leo Gura]

@Breakingthewall God can be understood much clearer than you currently understand it. So you got room to grow.