Religion

[AdvaitaZen]

Nothing but an attempt to teach a pure love.

Ordinarily, we experience love of some object, and thus there is God, the ultimate and unchanging object of love. To know a pure love, the object has to remain trustworthy, dependable. Further, God serves to create a single mindedness, often we are told to put all our problems onto God, and stay only thinking of him. Other times we are told to see all as God, making distraction impossible.

Ultimately we have to ask who the lover is though, once this question is asked, spirituality has graduated. Looking more and more into this phenomenon, we come to find the very source of love. Some call this also as God, making discussion difficult. Confusion arises when you look into it, how can the same term be used to describe both object and subject?

The answer to this is liberation, for the truth shall set you free.

This freedom is nirvana, life lived as love.

 

[AdvaitaZen]

Love is the lack of division, commonly referenced as oneness or nonduality, and is what is actually pointed to when we are told God is one. The purpose of life is exactly this, and it is what we are. Even when we act in hate, it is only love in ignorance, we are just loving the division.

Everything I say on these forums is to remove division. How can interfaith dialog happen from the relative perspective? The very partaking of one path over another is a division, for you reject something in choosing it. In making your path superior, you make others inferior. Who has decided this other than ego? We can only meet beyond these differences, we have to start from a common ground.

I suggest that common ground should be the discovery of the believer, and the recognition it is just another thought you give too much attention to. From here, we can see who it is fueling the believer and why it seeks this. We can see that belief itself is the cause of all division, and we can discuss the ramifications of living as that which observes thought.

The nature of this space is love, but we fail to see it because we are too occupied with ego. Ego believes, and is the very nature of the perception of distinctions. Love does not divide, it is the bonding agent of consciousness, and religion means to rebind.

 

[iBrian]

If you say "All is God!" and then look at anything thing and say "This is God!" then the confusion comes only through seeing God as separate, for these are not two different things.

 

[AdvaitaZen]

If you say "All is God!" and then look at anything thing and say "This is God!" then the confusion comes only through seeing God as separate, for these are not two different things.

All ceases to be all when anything is excluded.