{"id":2233,"date":"2014-11-24T21:40:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T21:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meditationmag.com\/blog\/what-is-god\/"},"modified":"2014-11-24T21:40:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T21:40:12","slug":"what-is-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationmag.com\/blog\/what-is-god\/","title":{"rendered":"What is “God?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is \u201cGod?\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The word \u201cGod\u201d holds many different meanings for many different people.<\/p>\n

The one definition of the word \u201cGod\u201d that would\u00a0satisfy (just about) everybody is simply this: \u201cGod = The Highest Level Being, which brings everything into existence, and upon which the existence of everything depends.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n

Abraham, widely considered \u201cThe Father of Monotheism\u201d in the West, perceived this Being, and when he did, he told everybody about it. \u00a0Today, thousands of years later, billions of people throughout the world use\u00a0the word \u201cGod\u201d to describe Abraham\u2019s realization.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Modern Christian, Jewish, and Muslim God is NOT the same one that Abraham saw. The Deity that billions of Westerners worship today is NOT The Highest Level Being, which brings everything into existence, and upon which the existence of everything depends\u2026 as will be simply and undeniably demonstrated below.<\/p>\n

In essence, Western Religions are doing what the Bible warned them NOT to do: worshiping something that is a step below the level of the One True \u201cGod;\u201d i.e. \u201can Angel.\u201d For, by their definition of God as a Deity, they are inherently limiting it to something\u00a0smaller than<\/em>,\u00a0created by<\/em>, and\u00a0dependent upon<\/em>\u00a0EXISTENCE ITSELF. Existence Itself is The Highest Level Being, which brings everything into existence, and upon which the existence of everything else depends.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod\u201d does not EXIST. \u201cGod\u201d IS Existence.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In \u201cThe Big Three\u201d Western Religions \u2014 Christianity, Judaism, and Islam \u2014 the word \u201cGod\u201d represents what we might call \u201ca Deity.\u201d A \u201cDeity\u201d is an entity, some THING that exists, that has ultimate power, and uses its power to fulfill its own ends. It has, in many ways, a human-like consciousness; it decides what it wants and what it does not want, it tells humans what to do, it favors one person over another, one group of people over another, one species over another, et cetera.<\/p>\n

From the Eastern Perspective, on the other hand \u2014 Buddhism, Taoism and related systems of spirituality \u2014 the word \u201cGod\u201d is simply NOT USED. \u201cGod\u201d is a Western word. Because the Eastern Spiritual Systems don\u2019t use the WORD \u201cGod,\u201d Westerners tend to view them as \u201cGodless\u201d or \u201cAtheistic Religions.\u201d This is very confusing from the Western Perspective. How can a person be atheistic and spiritual at the same time?<\/p>\n

In the East, instead of focusing on a Deity called \u201cGod\u201d (as they do in the West), the attention is, instead, directed toward the Fundamental Unity and Oneness of Existence Itself.<\/p>\n

This is very different from the Western Perspective.<\/em>\u00a0Whereas the existence of a \u201cDeity called God\u201d is something that cannot be proven or disproven, and has been the subject of debate, war, and persecution for thousands of years\u2026 the Fundamental Oneness of Existence is something that cannot be denied. It is simply\u2026 one way of looking at the world. It is a perspective, not a belief.<\/p>\n

You see, a \u201cbelief\u201d is a GUESS, about a fact that may or may not be true. A perspective, on the other hand, is simply a way of looking at something that is right there in front of you. For example, if you see three people standing and talking together, you can either see them as THREE: separate individuals, or you can see them as ONE: a unified group. So which is it? Are they THREE? Or are they ONE? Neither way is \u201cright\u201d or \u201cwrong.\u201d Whether you look at them as individuals or as a group is not a question of belief\u2026 it is simply a matter of perspective. So too, the ONE-ness of Existence is simply a PERSPECTIVE; it\u2019s a way that you can choose to look at Reality. You\u2019re seeing all of Existence as a UNIFIED WHOLE instead of just a collection of individual parts. And you, yourself, are a part of that whole. From the \u201cOneness Perspective,\u201d THAT\u2019S WHO YOU ARE.<\/p>\n

When a person sits down for a few minutes and quietly contemplates the Oneness of Existence, the deep, \u201cunanswerable\u201d existential questions of life begin to disappear. Who am I? Where was I before I was born? Where will I go when I die? What is the meaning of life? What is \u201cinfinity?\u201d What is \u201cnothingness?\u201d What is \u201cGod\u201d? Why am I here? Where did everything come from? Why does anything exist in the first place? The answers to all of these questions are simply and childishly obvious from the \u201cOneness Perspective.\u201d And by \u201cchildishly,\u201d I mean that when you finally come to see the answers, you will realize that you already understood all of this when you were a child. There were no questions in the first place. This is why you didn\u2019t start asking these \u201cunanswerable\u201d questions until you were nearly an adult\u2026 these existential questions, in reality, simply arose out of your mistaken viewpoint that you are SEPARATE FROM, and MORE IMPORTANT THAN the rest of Existence.<\/p>\n

So\u2026 this is the Eastern Perspective. Focus on the ONENESS of Existence\u2026 instead of seeing it as many individual parts\u2026 and you will realize enlightenment.<\/p>\n

And this is completely different from the Western Perspective, which says\u2026 Worship the ONE GOD in Existence, instead of many individual gods, and you will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Clearly, completely different.<\/p>\n

Or is it?<\/p>\n

Is it possible that Buddha and Abraham, Lao Tze and Jesus.. were all just using different words to describe the same thing in the first place???<\/p>\n

Well, let\u2019s look back at the stories of Genesis in the Old Testament.<\/p>\n

Naturally, in the beginning, humans (like Adam and Eve) were in direct contact with God. They knew God directly, and therefore they simply KNEW that God was One (and not Many).<\/p>\n

Over the course of history, people began to \u201close contact\u201d with God, and began to worship \u201cidols,\u201d or \u201cangels,\u201d or \u201crepresentations of God.\u201d Polytheism was born. And God was not very happy about it at all.<\/p>\n

And then, Abraham came on the scene! Abraham sat in a field and contemplated Existence. \u201cHow did this all come into being?\u201d he asked himself. \u201cWhy does anything exist in the first place?\u201d Abraham contemplated The Sun, and The Moon\u2026 things that his contemporaries considered to be \u201cThe Highest Being, which brings everything into existence, and upon which the existence of everything else depends.\u201d But Abraham couldn\u2019t believe that these were the highest beings. After all, they exist; therefore, there must be a \u201chigher\u201d being that created them as well! But if there\u2019s a higher being, then something must have created that as well!<\/p>\n

Suddenly, through his meditation, Abraham had a flash of insight. Abraham saw \u201cGod\u201d for the first time. And he carried the message of the \u201cOne True God\u201d to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

EXISTENCE IS ONE UNIFIED ENTITY, and its Nature is to Exist. There is nothing outside of it, because anything outside of Existence, by definition, does not exist.<\/p>\n

Nothing could ever \u201ccreate\u201d existence,\u201d or \u201cbe the creator of existence,\u201d because in order to do so, it would have to EXIST in the first place, thus placing it WITHIN the realm of Existence Itself.<\/em>\u00a0For a God to exist outside of existence is non-sensical. If it exists, it is part of existence. If it is not part of existence, it does not exist.<\/p>\n

Anything and everything that exists (including real or imagined Deities) owes its existence to the existence of Existence Itself. The existence of any THING (like the Sun, The Moon, or a Supernatural Spirit Being) is DEPENDENT ON (and therefore subservient to) the existence of Existence Itself. And we know for a fact that Existence Exists. This is not a question.<\/p>\n

Abraham did not \u201cbelieve\u201d in \u201cGod,\u201d he simply KNEW God to exist by perceiving it directly. This is what\u2019s meant by the idea that Abraham was a \u201cProphet\u201d who \u201csaw God\u201d and \u201ccommunicated with God directly.\u201d It is impossible to deny that Existence Exists. Abraham wasn\u2019t trying to create a new belief system and introduce a new Deity; he was pointing out something so obvious and fundamental to Reality that even a child could understand it. In fact, everybody already understands it, they just might not realize it on a conscious level. Existence Itself is the Highest Level Being, the cause of all causes, the creator of all creators, and the thing upon which everything depends for its existence.<\/p>\n

But Abraham didn\u2019t have the word \u201cExistence\u201d to explain what he saw! All he had were the words of his agrarian society. So he used the words \u201cAdonai,\u201d or \u201cElohim,\u201d which mean \u201cMaster\u201d or \u201cLord.\u201d Words indicating \u201cthe top of the hierarchy.\u201d What else could he do? These were the limitations of his language at the time. He didn\u2019t have words like \u201cEntity,\u201d \u201cDeity,\u201d \u201cExistence,\u201d or \u201cHighest Dimension in the Nested Hierarchy of Dimensions of Reality.\u201d All he had were words related to people, fields, grains, and sheep.<\/p>\n

With his \u201cExistence is One\u201d model of Reality, Abraham challenged the conventional, multi-deity, poly-theistic theology of his time, and brought Monotheism back into the popular culture of the Near East. And for doing so, Abraham has been revered for thousands of years, by billions of people, as one of the most popular spiritual pioneers of all time.<\/p>\n

Do you see the parallels to The Buddha, who challenged the conventional perspective of his time, and popularized Non-Dualistic Mono-Existence-ism in Southeast Asia?<\/p>\n

Abraham said \u201cGod is One.\u201d
\nThe Buddha said \u201cExistence is One.\u201d<\/p>\n

They were speaking in different languages, at different times, to different people. Yet both of them carried essentially the same message of Peace, Love, Oneness, and Spirituality. Is it so hard to believe that they were actually talking from the same perspective, and simply using different words to describe their experiences?<\/p>\n

In this way, we can truly understand what Abraham meant by \u201cThe One God.\u201d It is no longer an object of BELIEF\u2026 \u201cA mysterious deity that only Abraham could talk to, because he was a special person with super prophet powers.\u201d It is something that each of us can perceive for ourselves, something right there in front of us, just waiting for us to look; the Living, Existing One Reality. It Is That Which Is. All we need to do, in order to perceive directly the True One God of Abraham, is to shift our perspective of Existence from \u201ca collection of many parts\u201d to \u201cone unified whole.\u201d And this is the message of Abraham, conveyed rather ineffectively over the years through the use of anthropomorphic imagery.<\/p>\n

Luckily, in Southeast Asia, the Eastern Mystics have kept that perception alive long enough, and in a form clear enough, for us to re-phrase it in a way that we (and hopefully future generations) can understand.
\nAnd to me it is a very funny thing, to see how the Jews, and the Christians and the Muslims, see Eastern Mysticism as some \u201cweird, foreign, exotic thing,\u201d \u2026 even as idolatry, atheism or blasphemy \u2026 when in reality it is the Buddhists who are worshiping the God of Abraham, and the Western Religions are entrenched in the very Polytheism that Abraham broke away from in the first place!<\/p>\n

The problem with Polytheism isn\u2019t just the idea that there are many Gods, or having a bunch of stone statues around your house. The fundamental problem is that when you focus on a \u201cDeity\u2026\u201d something that EXISTS\u2026 you are missing the bigger picture of EXISTENCE ITSELF. When you think that SOME THING THAT EXISTS is MORE IMPORTANT THAN EXISTENCE ITSELF, you are confusing yourself. How can something that exists be more important than existence itself? If it exists, it is WITHIN existence. Even if it happens to be an all powerful deity.<\/p>\n

This is the fundamental error and paradox of Western Religion, which gives rise to things like Atheism and Agnosticism. If you say that \u201cGod Exists,\u201d then you run into all kinds of trouble. Where did God come from? Why did He create the Universe? How can we know that He even exists in the first place?<\/p>\n

BUT, if instead of saying \u201cGod Exists,\u201d you say that\u00a0GOD IS EXISTENCE<\/strong>\u2026 well then you no longer have all that trouble! In fact, everything begins to fall into place. And when you read the Bible from this perspective, and many of the later commentaries, you finally begin to understand, on a really deep level, what people like Abraham and Jesus were really talking about in the first place.<\/p>\n

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Other examples of God-As-Existence from Early Judaism & Christianity:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Maimonades, one of the most widely respected of the ancient Jewish Biblical Commentators, said: \u201cYou must KNOW GOD, not \u2018BELIEVE THAT GOD EXISTS.\u2019 If you \u2018BELIEVE THAT GOD EXISTS,\u2019 it is as if you are committing Idolatry.\u201d Maimonades makes the distinction between seeing and believing; when you believe something, it means that you are not seeing it. You can\u2019t KNOW that a deity exists; the best you can do is BELIEVE it. Conversely, you cannot BELIEVE that EXISTENCE EXISTS, all you can do is KNOW it. Unfortunately, Jews today tend to interpret this statement to mean that you must make your belief so powerful that it is as strong as knowledge. And thus, Delusion is born.<\/p>\n

2. The New Testament describes Jesus as the Son of God. From the Oneness-of-Existence Perspective, we are all the Children of God. We grow out of God as a child grows out of its parents. God is the ultimate Creator of Everything, because everything comes into Existence only as a result of Existence Itself. In fact, since Existence is ONE, we are not only the CHILDREN of God, but WE ARE GOD. We are all simply parts and manifestations of Existence Itself. Thus, Jesus was both the Son of God, and God as well. So are you, by the way. You\u2019re welcome, Confused Christian Theologians.<\/p>\n

3. The most important prayer in the Jewish Prayer Book is called \u201cShema Yisrael,\u201d which means, \u201cListen, Children of Israel.\u201d It goes, \u201cShema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Ehad.\u201d The last two words are considered to be the most important in the prayer, and the devotee is directed to focus on them intently for several seconds after uttering the prayer. These two words are translated as \u201cGOD IS ONE.\u201d The prayer doesn\u2019t say \u201cThere is One God.\u201d It says \u201cGOD IS ONE.\u201d This is a very important distinction, and apparently it is one that the Ancient Jewish Mystics understood.<\/p>\n

4. A Jewish friend of mine just emailed this to me:\u00a0Abraham Isaac Kook, first Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in then Palestine, held that atheists were not actually denying God: rather, they were denying one of man\u2019s many images of God. Since any man-made image of God can be considered an idol, Kook held that, in practice, one could consider atheists as helping true religion burn away false images of god, thus in the end serving the purpose of true monotheism.<\/em><\/p>\n

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An SMS conversation with a Friend:<\/strong><\/p>\n

God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are the highest levels of being in Christian Cosmology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kevin: Christianity doesn\u2019t acknowledge existence itself then, huh? No wonder they\u2019re so confused.<\/p>\n

Where did you get that idea? Christians acknowledge existence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kevin: Then you\u2019re saying that God, Jesus, and The Holy Ghost are synonymous with the Oneness of Existence? If not, how can you say \u201cThey Exist\u201d and yet are higher-level Beings than Existence Itself? Anything that exists is, by definition, subservient to existence itself. By definition, existence itself is the highest level being possible [because anything else that exists is included in Existence, but all of Existence is not included in anything else that exists]. It brings all other beings into being\u2026 in other words, it allows for anything that exists to exist. The Ultimate Creator \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

No, you\u2019re confusing Buddhism with Christianity. God is not the oneness of existence. There is no oneness of existence. There is creation and a creator. The creator always existed, then he created what we see as reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kevin: So now, you have these two things. You have \u201cGod,\u201d and you have \u201cThe Universe.\u201d \u201cCreator,\u201d and \u201cCreated.\u201d Two things. Therefore, neither of them can be considered \u201cExistence Itself,\u201d because it does not include \u201cEVERYTHING.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, now you take a step back and look at the big picture. Instead of looking at them as \u201ctwo separate things,\u201d you look at them as A GROUP of two things.\u00a0ONE GROUP<\/strong>, of TWO THINGS. That \u201cgrouping\u201d can now be seen as a larger entity, which is a \u201chigher level being\u201d than both \u201cGod\u201d and \u201cThe Universe.\u201d This is what I\u2019m calling \u201cExistence Itself,\u201d or \u201cThe Oneness of Existence.\u201d It includes and is greater than every other thing; therefore it is The Highest Being in the Nested Hierarchy of Beings.<\/p>\n

This is actually a very simple concept. Maybe the simplest in all of existence. That\u2019s why it can be so hard for people to see, but once you see it, it\u2019s the most obvious thing in the world. Like a riddle.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is bigger than God?\u201d
\n\u201cExistence itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ha, ask that to a Catholic priest \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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An Analogy to Try to Make This Clearer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ted is a computer programmer and video game creator, working for Blizzard Entertainment. He created a video game, with an entire video game Universe inside.<\/p>\n

The video game Universe includes a character named Lord Pandamaster. Lord Pandamaster looks around at his video game world, the video game Sun, the video game Moon, the video game mountains, the video game people, and thinks\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cWow, how did this all get here? Someone must have created it. Maybe the Sun created it? Nah, the Sun is PART of the Universe\u2026 someone must have created that, too!\u201d<\/p>\n

From here, Lord Pandamaster can go in one of two directions with his philosophizing.<\/p>\n

DIRECTION A: Seeing the Deity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lord Pandamaster has a brilliant flash of insight. He realizes that there is someone, some \u201cother-worldly being\u201d in another Dimension of Reality, who has created the entire Video-Game Universe that he sees around him.<\/p>\n

Lord Pandamaster prays to this Video-Game Creator Deity to reveal himself. Ted, the Video Game Creator, types on his keyboard: \u201cHello Lord Pandamaster. My name is Ted. I want you to go battle some monsters today. Yeehaw.\u201d So of course Lord Pandamaster does as he is told, because, hell, Ted is the All-Powerful Creator of the Universe. Who knows what he could do if he gets angry.<\/p>\n

Lord Pandamaster tells all of his video-game friends about Ted the Creator\u2026 how he created the Sun, the Moon, the video-game EVERYTHING!<\/p>\n

After thinking about it for a few minutes, Lord Pandamaster\u2019s friends are confused.<\/p>\n

\u201cWait\u2026 Lord Pandamaster\u2026 the same question of \u201cWhy does it exist?\u201d that you asked about the Video-Game Sun, Moon, and Stars, applies to Ted as well! If this Deity named Ted exists, then someone must have created HIM, TOO, right? And someone must have created THAT creator as well\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Pandamaster frowns, as he realizes this blatantly obvious truth. \u201cOh no,\u201d he thinks to himself, \u201cIt goes on to infinity! I wonder if Ted knows about this\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

DIRECTION B: Seeing the Existence Underlying Everything<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lord Pandamaster has a brilliant flash of insight. He realizes that IT DOESN\u2019T MATTER whether or not there\u2019s a Video-Game-Creator-Deity named Ted who created the Sun, Moon, and video game mountains.<\/p>\n

Even if there IS some super-being in another dimension who created this video-game Universe\u2026 then He is simply a PART of an even BIGGER \u201cUniverse\u2026\u201d a multi-dimensional Universe if you will\u2026 that includes Him, this video-game Universe, and anything ELSE that might happen to exist (which may or may not be in a higher dimension that even Ted doesn\u2019t know about).<\/p>\n

You can trace the \u201chigher levels of reality\u201d and \u201cspheres within spheres\u201d all the way to infinity. But there\u2019s something deeper than all that at work here. And that is that ANYTHING is able to exist in the first place! Why should existence exist in the first place? Why, it could just as easily be the opposite\u2026 nothing at all ever came into existence.<\/p>\n

Lord Pandamaster realizes, therefore, that it must be the FUNDAMENTAL NATURE OF REALITY for EXISTENCE TO EXIST, as opposed to the opposite (that the fundamental nature of reality is not to allow for existence). Existence Itself, therefore, is the Ultimate Creator of everything, and includes absolutely everything that exists, in every dimension. In fact, it includes all dimensions of reality, because those are things that exist too. And if Existence Itself were to suddenly switch from \u201con\u201d to \u201coff;\u201d well then, everything, including Ted the Video-Game-Universe Creator, would cease to exist as well.<\/p>\n

Pandamaster tells all his friends about this, and they\u2019re like, \u201cWhoa, that\u2019s awesome dude.\u201d People write books about it, but have some trouble with the phrasing since the word \u201cExistence\u201d hasn\u2019t been invented yet.<\/p>\n

Somewhere, in another dimension, a programmer named Ted is reading the words of his Creation, Lord Pandamaster, on the screen of his computer. \u201cWhoa, dude,\u201d says Ted, as he realizes that he and his Creation are both manifestations of the same One Reality. He takes another hit from his bong. \u201cPandamaster is one wise video game person, man.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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