If so, it would be it's own source?
Does the Source of time and space exist in time/space?
If thought takes time (it does) how could something that doesn't exist in time, think?
If God doesn't think, how could it have an intention, purpose or plan?
If there is no plan.....is anybody running the show?
2007-08-19 07:21:18 · 8 answers · asked by philmeta11 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
hisgloryisgreat:
Because God is not a person. That's actually the point here.
2007-08-19 09:00:27 · update #1
angeltress:
Yes, it's about releasing illusions. Getting God OUT of the person box.
2007-08-19 09:03:52 · update #2
nothing 'personal' about it.
it is all happening in its own way. no thinker outside Consciousness.Consciousness is all there is.
2007-08-19 21:20:00 · answer #1 · answered by liveinnow 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why would it be?
We know how the universe started, with the Big Bang. However, we don't know anything about what came before it, if "before" even applies. It could have been a huge quantum event. It could be part of a much larger mega-universe. There's just no evidence to say anything about it.
However, there is also nothing to suggest that some super galactic sentient being created it, and of all the theories, that seems to be the least likely.
2007-08-19 14:24:01 · answer #2 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why, oh, why, do people insist on trying to stuff God into a man-sized box?
How can you even expect something that was created to even begin to understand or explain the Being that created it?
You have about as much chance of understanding God as a frog has of explaining Friday...and the frog is winning......
2007-08-19 14:41:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is an unsolvable mystery. Life, in all of it's miraculous forms, is a mystery.
Is it possible that we can forget to live, really live? Is it possible that the conceptualization, living in the head, creates a lack of intimacy with ones life...ones self?
All we really know, for sure, is that we 'are here'. Our awareness/life follows us everywhere...watching everything. 'To be' with this life, intimately, is being with "the source".
We are the source of life. Living "it" fully, is grand.
2007-08-20 00:24:36 · answer #4 · answered by Eve 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be the Being
All is One
Namaste
Peace and Love
edit:
There are those with enlightened knowledge: this is not knowledge by birth, or knowledge by learning: it is beginningless in here, having transcended the bounds of self and other, it is being unbound by knowledge of self and other.
-Dogen; Rational Zen
2007-08-19 14:39:08 · answer #5 · answered by digilook 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, hard one this time, I planned to rest my brain on Sunday~
what can I say while I haven't been there yet??
knowledge beyond thinking, understanding beyond existence.. that's all I know and understand for now.
2007-08-19 14:27:13 · answer #6 · answered by The Catalyst 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thoughts, to me as a Theravada Buddhist exist and are caused, as are all things thus caused and have causes...
Thoughts being thus caused are not their own source, rather they are caused by other things apart from themselves..their seeming randomness being because we are unaware and the causes are therefore hidden from our awareness..
Thoughts are therefore not random to me...observation and experiencing experiences cause thoughts to arise...such cause then consequence relationships are what Buddhists relate to as associations..for example...
Our 5 Khandhas or Aggregates of Form, Feeling, Perceptions, Mental Formations and Consciousness acting in concert cause thoughts to arise simply because they are what they are...Form causes thoughts about Form..Feelings cause thoughts about feelings...Mental Formations cause thoughts about Mental Formations and so on...
At any time that thoughts arise, Self also arises...it is when Self arises that "clinging" or Upadana is exhibited...this happens when we are unaware of Self and are untrained in its subtelty...such Self arising causes then thoughts of Self and therefore we employ Self and therefore selfishness in our thought patterns...we become the participant in our experiences using this Self as the tool of choice, as it were....Buddhist practise makes us aware of this Self arising, practising to train the Mind to be seperated from it and its influence thus changing the pattern and ending the cycle of Khandha causing feeling causing Self "picking the feeling up" causing suffering...Upadana is the cause of suffering...Self causes Upadana....Self arises with such Upadana to the Khandhas thus do we practise to be seperated from our Khandhas...to not identify with them and therefore to not identify with these arising thoughts...only noting them and associating them with the experiences and Khandhas which caused them to arise in the first place...
According to Cosmologists such as Prof Steven Hawking, Space/Time began with the Big Bang, before this event, Space/Time did not exist and matter and energy was compressed into a gigantic singularity...this being so there is little evidence for any thing or event before this and there is much Cosmological argument even as far as this event itself goes..let alone what happened before it...the source of Space/Time...the beginning of it, as it were is therefore this event..
Relating this then to God as the Source...I imagine that..without being cynical...that He would thus exist outside of this reality and this Space/Time...this would seem to be consistant with His existence before the Big Bang ... thought thus existing within Space/Time and therefore within this existence would suggest that if God thinks, then He must somehow be part of this Space/Time timeline, either that or He is somehow able to manipulate Space/Time from outside it...I imagine that such a Deity being able to cause the Big Bang would also have such ability to thus manipulate His creation...perhaps there is another dimension of Space/Time with another Timeline which incorporates our own or which incorporates this Timeline and this Space/Time...
Using this analogy, it would be logical then that His thoughts would be outside this Space/Time yet still influences this one....
Only a thought.../smiles/...it gets complicated doesn't it...I'm confused enough just relating to my own interpretation of this reality and trying to come to terms with a simple concept of what suffering is about.../smiles again/...I'll leave the Cosmological and more complicated Esoteric questions to the experts...
Thoughts are definitely a "thinking thing"...
I'm only a simple Buddhist after all.../smiles widely/...
2007-08-20 04:13:56 · answer #7 · answered by Gaz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you seriously think about God but buy into calling him "it"?
2007-08-19 14:26:25 · answer #8 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋