Isn't in interesting. When something "good" happens to one person, its god's handiwork. But to the person on the other side of the same situation, who may have lost out on the deal, its satan's handiwork.
What one person defines as good, another can as equally define as bad, and the corresponding diety gets the credit or blame.
We spend so much time defining good and bad, god and not god, we loose sight of the real truth behind it all. There is no good, there is no bad, there is only life which must be embraced for all it has to offer.We spend so much time trying to find god's path in our lives, we fail to see that we have been standing on the path the entire time. Metaphorically speaking, god has been standing just down the path waiting for us to open our eyes and to put one foot in front of the other.
We spend an awful lot of time trying to find that which exists right in front of us, in every birth, in every death, in every sunrise, every storm, in every grain of sand. You may call it god, or like me you may call it the Tao, but it is in us and around us all the time. You do not have to "find" it, because it is you.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Defining God
They call god Jehovah, Jesus, Allah, Vishnu, Krishna, and a thousand other names. Can they all be right? They give god many attributes; "just", "loving", "stern", and a thousand faces as well. Can they all be right? They quote god's words and directions to us in book after book called the bible, the koran, and another thousand other works. Can they all be right? Quite obviously the answer is no.
The problem with trying to define god, is that the moment you you do you loose all ability to see god for what god truely is. If you can only see god through rose colored glasses, then you are blind to anything but rose colored attributes.
But what if god isn't rose colored at all? What if god can only be seen through yellow tint glasses? What if god can't be define by the colors you or I choose? What if god is something beyond human definition completely?
Given the fact that there is no evidence, what so ever, to support the world's religous definition of god, and that there are countless versions all contradicting each other, why do we as humans insist on forcing our definition of god on everyone else? Why do we kill and discriminate against each other over this?
How about we all step back and accept the fact that we just don't know, and allow that perhaps the definition of god, if god needs any definition to begin with, is beyond our capability. Perhaps then we can find god. Perhaps god has been right on the other side of that fence all along.
The problem with trying to define god, is that the moment you you do you loose all ability to see god for what god truely is. If you can only see god through rose colored glasses, then you are blind to anything but rose colored attributes.
But what if god isn't rose colored at all? What if god can only be seen through yellow tint glasses? What if god can't be define by the colors you or I choose? What if god is something beyond human definition completely?
Given the fact that there is no evidence, what so ever, to support the world's religous definition of god, and that there are countless versions all contradicting each other, why do we as humans insist on forcing our definition of god on everyone else? Why do we kill and discriminate against each other over this?
How about we all step back and accept the fact that we just don't know, and allow that perhaps the definition of god, if god needs any definition to begin with, is beyond our capability. Perhaps then we can find god. Perhaps god has been right on the other side of that fence all along.
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