Life | Love | Freedom

What is our nature?

Driving the original question is a sense mankind focuses on the nature of "God" as opposed to our own nature. We want to know who/what God is and what God wants with us. The question in and of itself perpetuates a dualistic framework (i.e. God is separate from us or me). Religions step in and define who God is and what God wants with us and how we are to satisfy those wantings.

Here's my dilemma. If God is the originator of all. If nothing exists apart from God. Then all is an expression of God. Err...humph...well then what about bad stuff like hate, prejudice, etc? Where does that come from, certainly God didn't originate a system in which hate exists as a choice. One pseudo explanation is that 'bad' stuff is a result of the absence of God, like darkness is the result of the absence of light. I don't know if that works for me or not. If God is all, then how can there be the absence of all? Another way to say it is that God is Truth and bad stuff happens when someone depends on error rather than Truth...but doesn't that beg the question where did error come from if God is all? Some people explain error/bad stuffs existence away using our ability to choose (i.e. it's not that God 'created' error/bad stuff but that when he created choice, it became possible). So, then my question becomes "Why would perfect love (i.e. God) who is all powerful create a system knowing mankind would choose something other than God? Couldn't an all powerful all knowing God create a system in which choice exists but doesn't lead to error or the absence of God? If so, why didn't God do that? If not, God must not be all powerful because surely perfect love would not create a system in which hate, prejudice, etc exists.

So, what are the alternatives?...and please don't tell me that's where faith comes in or we can't know the mind of God.

Go with me here...

What if there is no separate supreme consciousness, big kahuna huna or personality called "God" rather the only things that are real (i.e. eternal) are perfect love, perfect freedom and transcendent peace (i.e. peace that passes understanding)? What if those attributes are eternal, permanent, unchanging and they manifest as all that is (i.e. all on earth, solar system, universe and beyond)?

A few questions from here are...

What causes love, freedom and peace to manifest in 'seemingly' separate forms (i.e. tree, person, star, air, etc)? Why would those attributes manifest in forms which seem to perpetuate the illusion of separation?

and more importantly THE BIG QUESTION for me is...

How would my, our and all's existence change if we really believed (changed/transformed our mind) that ONLY perfect love, freedom and transcendent peace exists and as a result 'lived' AS perfect love, perfect freedom and transcendent peace?

posted by Rick @ 11:48 AM