Guest guest Posted October 3, 2004 Report Share Posted October 3, 2004 When you say you believe in God, what is really the situation? The situation is that you don't believe in God, you believe only in your ideas about God, and furthermore, you trust that those ideas correspond to a reality outside your mind. The chances that the finite human mind could grasp the infinite and translate it into words are almost none. Ideas are a powerful stimulant, they can fire up emotion, passion, love. This love for the divine can still the activity of the mind and provoke feelings of joy and exaltation. And so a divine loop is created, in which religious ideas induce ecstasy, and this bliss reinforces faith in those very ideas. Any idea of God is a limitation of the infinite. Any identity is a boundary. If you think Jesus, Shiva, " the Self " is God, you have limited God. Any identity no matter how sublime can't not be 'that which is.' That which is, must be left undefined, unnamed, and alone. Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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