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25-10-2023, 03:36 AM
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God and the 'I'
Being beyond the 'I' and being free of the 'I' is a worthy goal. But practically speaking I would imagine that the 'I' always creeps back in. All it takes is for God to say the word 'I' and there it is again. Just think how many times Gods like Jesus, Sai Baba, Yahweh or Krishna say 'I'. The 'I' is always present within God. So to me reality is really a God/I equilibrium. A bit like binary computer language - a lot of zeros and ones.
Reality sort of goes - God, God, I, God, I, I, God etc. Just like writing a computer program. 001011000111 etc.
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25-10-2023, 04:53 AM
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The hardest thing to do, and I'm not sure why it is so hard, is to just be. We torture ourselves though ideas we need or want something else. I think the sages are right when they say, one must lose oneself to find oneself.
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25-10-2023, 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Honza
Being beyond the 'I' and being free of the 'I' is a worthy goal.
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Why is it a worthy goal Honza ? |
25-10-2023, 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by sky
Why is it a worthy goal Honza ?
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Good question!!
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25-10-2023, 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by sky
Why is it a worthy goal Honza ?
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Is 'I' not restrictive? Is 'I' as glorious as God?
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25-10-2023, 12:55 PM
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I see 'I' as being God's smaller self. God is absolute and unconditional whereas 'I' is less so. Compared to God the 'I' is transitory and a mere shadow.
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25-10-2023, 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Honza
Is 'I' not restrictive? Is 'I' as glorious as God?
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In what way Honza ?
I'm really trying to understand what your thinking about 'I', it seems to be bothering you for some reason.... |
26-10-2023, 07:30 PM
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The "I" thought/identification occurs within the greater expanse of awareness. It arises and it falls, and is not self existent, just like all phenomena.
No matter who we "think" we are, or what we are bound up in - we are never separate or apart from God. :)
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26-10-2023, 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Honza
I see 'I' as being God's smaller self. God is absolute and unconditional whereas 'I' is less so. Compared to God the 'I' is transitory and a mere shadow.
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Honza,
There will never be resolution here because there is no consensus of a definition for ‘I’. For me “I” is the hand picked name of God. Because God is eternal His “I” can neither be transitory nor can it cast a shadow. Transitory implies both time and subsequently movement…..and that is dependent on the movement of the earth around the sun. God does not reside on the earth….. |
26-10-2023, 08:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Molearner
God does not reside on the earth…..
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1 Corinthians 3:16 KJB.
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" |
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