Why seek "God"?

[ananda]

i won't lie. I felt God has been knocking on my door and so I finally decided to answer. Not in a hardcore Christian way, but I have stopped saying the Nembutsu and started saying the Jesus prayer for my daily chanting.

Has Jesus appeared to you?

 

[TheOldWays]

Has Jesus appeared to you?

no sir.

 

[habibii zahra]

God comes in many shapes, colors and names, but helping those in need is the one teaching that comes in all authentic religions.

no god has no shapes no colors he is god he is not a human...humans have shapes god no

 

[habibii zahra]

Certainly, it is said in Buddhism that devas can do things - like move celestial objects - far beyond the ability of any normal man or woman. It doesn't mean that they're infinite or almighty.

so do you consider Buddha god or a messenger from god?

 

[dlamberth]

no god has no shapes no colors he is god he is not a human...humans have shapes god no

For a seeker of God, I think it would depend upon how much of a reality God is to a person in where and how they see Him as they look around. For instance, I have no doubt that I see the shape and color of God in the laugh and play and even tears of my young grand-daughter. Or also in the juice of life flowing through and with in the biosphere of the earth and all of Creation. Or in the form called Christianity, or Islam, or Hinduism, or Buddhism, or Indigenous spirituality, or in each and every human being as God is closer to us than our own jugular vein.

 

[dlamberth]

so do you consider Buddha god or a messenger from god?

In my way of answering your question to ananda, and as seen through the lens of this Lover of God, the Buddha to me is clearly a messenger of God. I have absolutely no doubt about that.

 

[ananda]

no sir.

Let me know if he does, I'm curious to meet him myself.

 

[ananda]

so do you consider Buddha god or a messenger from god?

Neither ... the Buddha is considered superior to all gods.

As I see it, the majority of the religions of the world are centered on a deity or deities who exhibit qualities such as fickleness, change, attachments, emotions & emotionally driven variances; they also demonstrate that they are subject to time.

The Buddha is said to have transcended all of those qualities, and I can personally understand how he did so, having partially practiced the Path he pointed out. In such a way, I consider him to have transcended all messengers of gods, not to mention the gods themselves.

 

[TheOldWays]

Let me know if he does, I'm curious to meet him myself.

Will do. But I doubt it will happen.

 

[toLiJC]

Again, this wanders into the realm of conjecture and interpretation. It doesn't belie the fact that I haven't directly met an almighty, infinite god.

in principle, even an irreligious man could have the true One to the extent the righteous people presented in the Bible had it, but only if he is righteous enough - when it comes to practicing indic religions, i can only say, be very careful lest you turn out to be involved in great spiritual unrighteousness/lawlessness/wickedness - i had a terrible warning from God

Blessings

 

[ananda]

in principle, even an irreligious man could have the true One to the extent the righteous people presented in the Bible had it, but only if he is righteous enough - when it comes to practicing indic religions, i can only say, be very careful lest you turn out to be involved in great spiritual unrighteousness/lawlessness/wickedness - i had a terrible warning from God

Blessings

What wickednesses do you believe I involve myself with? Is it wickedness to practice loving-kindness, compassion, empathy, or equanimity? Is jhana (training the mind to become more still) wicked? Or perhaps observing and acting upon cause & effect, or using that law/principle to skillfully develop myself?

 

[toLiJC]

Are you confused? Other than the extinct group of mollusc's called Ammonites that are found in the region you references, I'm not able substantiate your claim that the Biblical "Children of Ammon" also came from the same area. Can you provide references, please?

including according to what is written in the Bible, the region of india and himalayas was the land of the so-called "nephilim" before the "flood" of Noah's time (Numbers 13:27-33) - they were just humans yet ones that turned into angels of satan through very deep and systematic occult process, and mostly through the process of the so-called yoga of krishna and patanjali, they are called "avatars" in the vedas, which are their(satanic) scriptures, and it is even written in the Bible that the ammonites inherited that their land after the "flood" (Deuteronomy 2:17-21)

Blessings

 

[toLiJC]

What wickednesses do you believe I involve myself with? Is it wickedness to practice loving-kindness, compassion, empathy, or equanimity? Is jhana (training the mind to become more still) wicked? Or perhaps observing and acting upon cause & effect, or using that law/principle to skillfully develop myself?

if you don't realize what the mystery of lawlessness is so as to repent of all spiritual unrighteousness, then you may not be able to realize what your sin is if you commit spiritual lawlessness, and if so, this doesn't mean God won't consider your sin as sinful as it is and take it into account when He judges you - the difference between the religious doctrine of the true One and the religious doctrine of the evil one may be very subtle, for example, according to the Word of the true One, there is an eternal circle of existence and positions of the souls, to put it another way, an eternity of eternities, and the soul(whichever it may be) may be born and die only once within one single(little) eternity, while, according to the word of the evil one, there is ostensibly one enormous eternity during which there must supposedly be a cycle of so-called samsara i.e. cycle of many consecutive births, forms of existence and deaths inevitable for every soul in the universe, which would be much worse than the eternal judgment of the true One, because every soul in the universe would suffer multiple times successively within that enormous eternity (i.e. without there being any long break for any soul) (Revelation 13:9-10)...

Blessings

 

[ananda]

if you don't realize what the mystery of lawlessness is so as to repent of all spiritual unrighteousness, then you may not be able to realize what your sin is if you commit spiritual lawlessness, and if so, this doesn't mean God won't consider your sin as sinful as it is and take it into account when He judges you - the difference between the religious doctrine of the true One and the religious doctrine of the evil one may be very subtle, for example, according to the Word of the true One, there is an eternal circle of existence and positions of the souls, to put it another way, an eternity of eternities, and the soul(whichever it may be) may be born and die only once within one single(little) eternity, while, according to the word of the evil one, there is ostensibly one enormous eternity during which there must supposedly be a cycle of so-called samsara i.e. cycle of many consecutive births, forms of existence and deaths inevitable for every soul in the universe, which would be much worse than the eternal judgment of the true One, because every soul in the universe would suffer multiple times successively within that enormous eternity (i.e. without there being any long break for any soul) (Revelation 13:9-10)...

Blessings

So, what - in the list of things I practice - do you believe is "wickedness" and "spiritual lawlessness"?

 

[habibii zahra]

For a seeker of God, I think it would depend upon how much of a reality God is to a person in where and how they see Him as they look around. For instance, I have no doubt that I see the shape and color of God in the laugh and play and even tears of my young grand-daughter. Or also in the juice of life flowing through and with in the biosphere of the earth and all of Creation. Or in the form called Christianity, or Islam, or Hinduism, or Buddhism, or Indigenous spirituality, or in each and every human being as God is closer to us than our own jugular vein.

he has no color nor shape..he is here close to you you can reach him by loving him because he already loves you

 

[habibii zahra]

In my way of answering your question to ananda, and as seen through the lens of this Lover of God, the Buddha to me is clearly a messenger of God. I have absolutely no doubt about that.

so why cant Mohammad be a messenger of god as well??
he is so kind same as Buddha so what do you think?? he calls us to believe in Christianity and Judaism in the bible and the torah in god the one the unique
such a person cannot be a messenger of god?

 

[habibii zahra]

Neither ... the Buddha is considered superior to all gods.

As I see it, the majority of the religions of the world are centered on a deity or deities who exhibit qualities such as fickleness, change, attachments, emotions & emotionally driven variances; they also demonstrate that they are subject to time.

The Buddha is said to have transcended all of those qualities, and I can personally understand how he did so, having partially practiced the Path he pointed out. In such a way, I consider him to have transcended all messengers of gods, not to mention the gods themselves.

well does Buddha invites you to believe in one god the god of the universe?

 

[ananda]

well does Buddha invites you to believe in one god the god of the universe?

No, because such a belief cannot be verified.

 

[dlamberth]

so why cant Mohammad be a messenger of god as well??

I've never said that He wasn't mainly because I DO recognize Mohammad as a messenger of God.

 

[dlamberth]

he has no color nor shape..he is here close to you you can reach him by loving him because he already loves you

Where do you "see" the manifestation of God?