RAF, thank you; you're very sweet; and like I told you before, you keep this up and I'm taking the next train to France.
Open Mind, actually, far more than not, I am in agreement with what Terry says. He eloquently shows us how much BS our belief structures can be. Perhaps, I just take it one step further, is all.
It almost sounded like we need to "respect God" only you used the word "infinite".
Probably what I was trying to say was something along these lines:
Generally there is an identity with the phenominal level of thoughts, emotions, sensations and experiences; and in this unquestioned identification there is seemingly a very real and concrete confinement to a pod: a separate and individual sense of "me" somehow cut off from all the rest of existence. Yet, during all this, there is the endless-ness, a boundless vastness, an INFINITY of being/existence in and around the sense of small "self". What appear to be walls and boundaries which separate the little "self" from infinity -- are they real, or illusion? Certainly there appears to be identifiable separate forms walking around, but is this really the beginning and end of what the genuine "I" is?
What if there are no walls, no valid separation from: anything and everything? Perhaps seeing that the walls are unreal, reveals our true nature, our true Self, which is one in the same for all existence. Without definable walls how can you be defined and individualized? You can't, really. You are everything, but no particular thing. Which does not mean that the phenominal level of endless forms is less beautiful and interesting...for without definable walls, you are this too.
All I have ever really said is that we investigate openly, honestly and thoroughly into the ideas and concepts of "self", and then look into that which is looking, that which is undeniably real and true. That which is most close.
So, it's not about some image or concept called "God". But rather about that which is seeing these words.
What is true? I can't say. It doesn't matter what I see. Find out for yourself. Observe, examine and investigate into the most intimate beliefs and senses of "self", and see if there is a you that can be found as a real and valid isolated thing. Are you really the shard of existence that is believed to be?
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