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Describe your God
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Which one?
osgart
Nothing my eye, Something for sure
God don't exist. In the sense of what I ultimately live for, then I do have a God. My God is 100 virtues, or the highest most positive ideals of being. The universe pales in importance to that. Without life the universe is insignificant.
Godless people can have God or gods in the sense of what they ultimately live and die for.
Godless people can have God or gods in the sense of what they ultimately live and die for.
WalterTrull
Godfella
I don't like to use the word 'God' very often. Too confusing.
My thought is that the universe is mental and we are the faces of that mentality.
"Our father who art in heaven"... "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:"
My thought is that the universe is mental and we are the faces of that mentality.
"Our father who art in heaven"... "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:"
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
V
Virtues are good
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Li
Godhead, that's cool
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Yours
I have many! If I were to describe them all, we'd be here awhile.
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Describe the head honcho in one sentenceI have many! If I were to describe them all, we'd be here awhile.
There's no head honcho.
A raindrop.
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
High in carbohydrates and protein with noodly appendages.
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Natures cool
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Noodle mummy
In my tradition, Īśvara or God has many forms. My favorite form is Durgā. Although she is depicted seated on a lion or tiger and with eight or 10 arms with a variety of weapons in her hands ready to slay Asuric forces, there is more to her.
Durgā is exceedingly beautiful, she is the typification of the sentiment of love, and she is more pleasant than all things that are pleasant. Her color is red.
Moreover, the universe is her embodiment. The clouds are the comely hair on her head, the sun and moon are her two lovely eyes, the Vedas are her voice, mountains are her bones, rivers are her veins, the trees are her beautiful body hairs, dawn and dusk are her clothes, and so on.
Lastly, she originates the universe, preserves or maintains it, and dissolves it, over and over. She conceals the knowledge of herself, and she bestows the knowledge of herself. This knowledge is non-dual awareness.
Everything that I’ve said here is found in the Devī Māhātmyam and the Devī Gītā.
Durgā is exceedingly beautiful, she is the typification of the sentiment of love, and she is more pleasant than all things that are pleasant. Her color is red.
Moreover, the universe is her embodiment. The clouds are the comely hair on her head, the sun and moon are her two lovely eyes, the Vedas are her voice, mountains are her bones, rivers are her veins, the trees are her beautiful body hairs, dawn and dusk are her clothes, and so on.
Lastly, she originates the universe, preserves or maintains it, and dissolves it, over and over. She conceals the knowledge of herself, and she bestows the knowledge of herself. This knowledge is non-dual awareness.
Everything that I’ve said here is found in the Devī Māhātmyam and the Devī Gītā.
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Nice description
Odin the All-father, and One Eyed One.
Freyja, Fertile lover and Fierce Fighter.
Freyr, Ruler of Peace and fertility.
Thor, Protector and Defender of Men.
Bragi, Greatest of the Skalds and Poets. Wise and eloquent One.
Freyja, Fertile lover and Fierce Fighter.
Freyr, Ruler of Peace and fertility.
Thor, Protector and Defender of Men.
Bragi, Greatest of the Skalds and Poets. Wise and eloquent One.
The closest I can come is a prayer Meher Baba created which is in part a set of paradoxes which goes, in part:
You are without Beginning and without End,
Non-dual, beyond comparison, and none can measure You.
You are without color, without expression, without form and without attributes.
You are unlimited and unfathomable, beyond imagination and conception, eternal and imperishable.
You are indivisible, and none can see You but with eyes Divine.
You always were, You always are, and You always will be.
You are everywhere; You are in everything; and You are also beyond everywhere and beyond everything.
You are in the firmament and in the depths.
You are manifest and unmanifest on all planes and beyond all planes;
You are in the three worlds and also beyond the three worlds.
You are imperceptible and independent.
You are without Beginning and without End,
Non-dual, beyond comparison, and none can measure You.
You are without color, without expression, without form and without attributes.
You are unlimited and unfathomable, beyond imagination and conception, eternal and imperishable.
You are indivisible, and none can see You but with eyes Divine.
You always were, You always are, and You always will be.
You are everywhere; You are in everything; and You are also beyond everywhere and beyond everything.
You are in the firmament and in the depths.
You are manifest and unmanifest on all planes and beyond all planes;
You are in the three worlds and also beyond the three worlds.
You are imperceptible and independent.
Lotus Jewel
Student of the Shakyamuni
I guess that I kind of passively acknowledge the existence of the devas talked about in Buddhist, Jain, and Orthodox Hindu literature. That is, I believe that Brahma, Vishnu, and the like at least exist.
Following with that weak belief on my part, I suppose that the gods of the Greeks and others might exist as well.
That said, acknowledging and venerating the devas is not essential to the goals of Buddhist practice, so I leave the subject alone most of the time and try not to heavily conjecture about deities.
I also don't pretend to know a whole lot about them, as to their personalities and base natures, so you could say that I'm largely agnostic about many aspects of traditional theism.
Deities are said to reside in their own realms in Buddhist texts, where they have their own kinds of activity.
If the question were what I know about deities, I'd have to say almost nothing.
Following with that weak belief on my part, I suppose that the gods of the Greeks and others might exist as well.
That said, acknowledging and venerating the devas is not essential to the goals of Buddhist practice, so I leave the subject alone most of the time and try not to heavily conjecture about deities.
I also don't pretend to know a whole lot about them, as to their personalities and base natures, so you could say that I'm largely agnostic about many aspects of traditional theism.
Deities are said to reside in their own realms in Buddhist texts, where they have their own kinds of activity.
If the question were what I know about deities, I'd have to say almost nothing.
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