The Reality of God
The Idea of God is not the Reality of God
Reality of God
The idea of God is not the reality of God.
The mind uses an idea —-society’s idea, about God to create an image in the imagination. It’s something tangible that we can easily relate to. It is an image that people believe to be the real God.
No such God can exist, nor can we become one with it. Ideas are outside the true reality and cannot be felt, only held within the mind and imagination and worshiped.
God is the totality of existence, the totality of everything we are a part of.
Awareness reveals our position within the reality of God as it is felt and experienced within us. Only through awareness, our feelings, and the revelation of us as the knower can we truly know and understand the true God of existence.
The duality of the mind will forever keep us from experiencing the reality of God, as long as we believe in the fake God created by the mind and imagination.
Awareness is the door through which we will know ourselves and God as all being one with existence. Through our feelings, the truth reveals itself and that which was believed for years becomes known in the moment of now.
In our search for God, we realize and know …
… we are that which we seek.
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I grew up mid-century in a religious family among a community of religious people whom I saw three times weekly on Sundays and Wednesdays. I was immersed in this from birth. I learned a lot in church. There, I heard many things about God, the divine, the Bible, morality, community, and such. Today, I do not often say or write "God" because now it typically means an individual person of supernatural or divine form; I was even told this in university religion classes.
"In our search for God, we realize and know … we are that which we seek," was not exactly among the things I learned from the community and the teaching. But it is exactly what I knew early in life from my own inquiries within myself. When I was growing up, that would have been serious heresy. Today I know it as the truth, even though I use different words.
I also recall thinking, when I was about 10-12 years old, about the idea that God created man in his own image. That puzzled me at first because back then, and mostly today too, "image" is taken to mean likeness; I had trouble making sense out of that, even though it matched the idea of God as a person, sort of. One day as I was sitting there in church, it occurred to me that "image" actually meant an image, imaging, or an imagining, a place, not just visual but in all the dimensions that we see, think, and feel. I realized that the words more likely meant that God in some way created within himself the divine image of the universe, and within that image there is the divine image of individual beings and all other things possible in this place. [*]
Through us and through all other things, this divine being experiences every aspect of its divine image from within the image; we are the divine being that knows, feels, and experiences this divine image. This image is within us each just as much as we all are within within it. I am that. I am this. The divine image is within me. I am within the image.
Many Buddhist monks take the "Bodhisattva vow" to the effect that they refuse to enter into nirvana (ultimate fusion with the divine) until all other beings enter with them. It is a good riddle. When they understand the truth, they realize that this already happened countless aeons ago! All beings are already the divine being whether they recognize it or not. You see, it is the same thing in different words. It appears in many traditions in many different forms.
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[*] (I am aware that this contradicts scholarship on translation, but so what; if the scholars are right, then the scribes were wrong!)
Thank you for the restack and the quote, Dave. I'm pleased the post resonated with you.