Hi panini,
Spirituality is another complex concept. Its synopsis is basically our connection to the surrounding life other than your own.
This is what the major religions teach. The most notable being christianity. Which I err to the most, but as you know, papa doesnt place himself in any category. To do so is to set yourself behind a fence, to add to your own, already bountiful, limitations.
The christians believe in the golden rule. Details aside, the synopsis of their religion is do unto others as youd want them to do to you.
This is a good principal to live by, but there are flaws to it. Anyways, we arent here to dissect religion, we’re here to learn about the concept of God as it will be a confusing concept as soon as youre old enough to begin to rationalize. Around the age of 9.
In regards to religion; I want you to understand that there is alot of lies in truths and alot of truth in myths. You need to learn how to study a subject and realize the fundementals and take those fundementals as the Truth apart from all the “fluff”.
Religion is complicated because religion is people and people are complicated. However, its only complicated on the surface. This is the importance of digging to the fundamentals, the foundation, finding the common denominator.
Study most religions and youll find that half of all their teachings are a riddle and the other half is dogmatic literature both sides sprinkled with some useful and practical advice.
Find the middle ground. The common denominator.
And what do you know, papa already did lol.
God is awareness.
God is not the concept of awareness, nor the embodiment of it, he is not partially awareness nor is awareness an aspect of God.
All God is, is awareness.
Read any religious text with this in mind and youll come to find that the riddle of religion is decoded, all metaphors will make sense after this, reap from it great spiritual guidance.
God is our consciousness. God is our sentience. God is the awareness that we have for our surroundings, to eachother, to ourselves.
A good example is a famous excerpt from the christian bible: “Godliness is cleanliness”. Cleanliness is the awareness of our space. To be clean is to be aware that the surrounding area is in a state of chaos… that awareness of the chaos is God.
To put in the effort and actually clean the area, to take it from a state of chaos to order is embodying God, its taking action on your own awareness.
This is why major religions teach that god is within and without, everywhere always, sees all, hears all. Thats because God is our own awareness, if its in our radar of awareness then it exists to us, therefore “god” sees it and hears it.
Therefore “god” can be everywhere always. But “everywhere” is a frame of reference, its everywhere depending on where YOU and I are.
God is not in some empty void. It cant be, nothing is aware of itself in the void, therefore, even if God WAS a man with a beard the void would be irrelevant to the entity anyway. Why would a bearded man god waste its own time on the void? On the nothing? It wouldnt. There lies the riddle. It wouldn’t, because God cant exist outside of sentience, because the lack of sentience is irrelevant, we are the sentience, therefore we are all God, but only if we remain aware.
This explains the riddle “before god there was nothing, after God, everything”. Well, duh, if there was nothing in existence that could be aware of its own existence then whether anything existed or not would be irrelevant. Existence, matter, stars, planets etc only became relevant when an extension of itself (us) became capable of being aware of it.
Our consiousness, our sentience is literally giving the entire universe meaning and purpose. Thats how much you matter my beautiful girl. You give this universe a reason to exist. Your appreciation of the Sun gives the Sun itself a reason to exist.
You’re that important, you and everyone around you.
Im tearing up just writing this knowing you’ll know this some day.
I love you so much.
Lets discuss the flip side of the coin. The unconscious. You will find that the path to self awareness or “enlightenment” as the buddhists call it or “Kundalini” as the hindus say, is riddled with confusion.
Simply because you are unaware about what youre unaware of. You dont know what you dont know. This is the tough part. Which is why all teachings ask you to “surrender” yourself. Basically, they call on you to let go of the analytical mind and as the christians say,”let go and let god”.
They teach to let go of the calculations and simply be aware. This is the power of buddhist meditations. Let go of everything and everything will come to you. Not in a physical sense, the objective is to discard the past, future and live in the NOW as the now is all that exists and to be aware that the only thing that truly exists at the moment is the moment and that, in itself, is fulfilling the entire objective.
To be Aware.
To become the embodiment of the concept of God.
Most of humanity is unconscious and thats ok. It isnt your job to bring them to God. Your job is to be Aware yourself. Doing this will make you a beacon of love and light and those who are ready will somehow find you.
Then you can help them, if they ask. Dont be annoying and dont be pretentious about it. Dont go “guru” on people, its pompous and the opposite of what we’re trying to achieve which is ‘live and let live’.
Unconsciousness is the foundation of all evil you see in the world. Whenever you see a crime committed, a murder, any action that stops life from flourishing or an action that kills life, that is the unconscious.
Be aware but be careful. Even god in the christian bible went to war with evil. The conscious and the unconscious are the paradigm of contrast. They are yin and yang. They are both forces to be reckoned with.
The conscious will always act in defense, because the unconscious will always attack. What im trying to say is be Aware but also know how to kick someones ass!
Thats it girl. God is awareness. Nothing more nothing less. The devil is simply the unconscious, the unaware. Demons and Angels are those thoughts and events that push us either towards unconsciousness, or to consciousness.
Have fun knowing this.
Papa out.
Carlos Ramses 