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Recieved: 2003/03/25 23:48
Subject: [K-list] What God do we believe in?
From: Dean Robbins
On 2003/03/25 23:48, Dean Robbins posted thus to the K-list:
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>Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 7:18 PM
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>>>"What self do you surrender to? Just wondering. Please don't take this as a flame. "
>
>>Dear list,
>
>>A member wrote the above privately to me.
>
>>Of course I wouldn't take offense to a very fair question! My response to Shankar was really a response >to a series of what I felt were religious rather than "spiritual" posts. I'm sorry if anyone felt offended.
>
>>To answer your question of "self" with an extremely shorthand answer, my experiences have given me to >understand that to believe or not to believe in a higher power is presumptuous. The energy is vast, all >encompassing and everywhere, which of course means it is "us" as well as outside us. It is part of all >just as we are part of All. It is intelligent in that we are intelligent. My experiences lead me to believe >that "God" is hard wired into the human brain and that we all interpret that in many ways, including >religious and scientific.
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>>The voices I experienced "I AM THAT I AM" etc. seemed to me to come from a place in the >consciousness that is not ordinarily accessible to our day to day brain. IMO to speak of God separates >us from that very energy. It is dualistic rather than unitive. Others, of course, feel quite differently. It's a >very old question! :))
>
>>I am surrendering to my Self.
>>Love, Hillary
>
Hi Hillary and all,
I think surrendering to one's Self is a wonderful answer.
I can see a theme developing here, maybe we can elaborate on this further, and even rephrase the question to "What God do we believe in?"
I read somewhere that the Buddha abstained from discussing metaphysical questions about the existence of an absolute God. For him, God was too big a subject for the unenlightened human mind to grasp. However, for six years, prior to his enlightenment, the Buddha did question the existence of an absolute "Something". And now, here I am asking the very same question:
I personally have no belief in what I think God is. What is important, is the actual enquiry into the very existence of *What is God?*. - God, whatever we believe Him to be, can only exist in our minds as a concept. But concept is not the actuality. Any concept we have of God, limits God to our belief system. Concept itself is only a part of the Creator's creation. Actuality negates God as a concept, and what remains is knowing that this is the reality. And as reality is our true nature or true Self, then our true Self-awareness can only disclose the "God" concept as an illusion.
I''m going to disappear now,
Dean
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