Define God

Now, as always, one of the biggest problems with religion is that those who get the most attention by fighting about their religious beliefs (both atheists and theists) are almost always those who have yet to realize what the enlightened are talking about when they refer to God. Please, don't be one of those people.

Think of whomever or whatever you love the most. Think of the person, the idea, the thing, the phenomenon that is so good, so essential to your world that he, she or it is irreplacable.

As an aside, if you can't do this simple thing, then you really owe it to yourself, and everyone around you, to stop fucking around with your half-formed arguments about the existence or non-existence of God and start looking at your own life a lot more seriously.

On the other hand, if you can do this simple thing, then realize that the intuitive, immediate connection you have with whomever or whatever you love the most, this is what the enlightened are talking about when they refer to God.

Now, please, just consider this one idea that takes it all just one step further. At the most primal level of existence, this very same connection you have with your loved one IS identical with all of the relationships within and between all things. This interconnectedness may be found within and between any two points in the infinite time/space continuum, between superstrings, sub-atomic particles, atoms, planets, and galaxies, between every cell in your body, between points of consciousness, families, societies, civilizations, bodies of wisdom, within and between love itself, truth itself, consciousness itself and creativity itself. This interconnectedness, this undefineable harmony of all things, is what the enlightened are talking about when they refer to God.

You are free to think of this as God, or not, this choice is always there for you to embrace or reject. But however you understand it, you cannot deny this reality, you can only choose to recognize your relationship to this reality and respond accordingly, or you can refuse to recognize it and follow the habitual path to the unreal, to madness and unnecessary suffering. It is the life-saving attempt to influence this choice that most outsiders mistakenly assume to be the whole point of the Western religious tradition. Of course, this choice is really just the first step to becoming fully human.

Simple, Yes?

Peace and Love