The Nature of God
Whenever we externalize god we then formulate an image and an entire fantasy surrounding the location of this deity and how he, she, it interacts with us in this life and the next. Our motivation to externalize god and the formulation of rites and rituals, however enlightened those rites and rituals seem to be, is often fear; the fear of death, the fear of being alone in the universe, the fear of loss of loved ones and loss of our own sense of egoic self.
This is more the nature of idolatry than the nature of god. Whenever god is externalized and imagined, the image becomes the object of worship rather than god.
We want to believe that divine beings created our religions. nothing coule be further from the truth. If Jesus, Krishna, or Buddha were here today they would certainly tell us that we totally missed the point of their teachings.
Thought has created the religions and thought sustains them. Beliefs are mere illusions and vary from one religion, indeed from one person to the next. truth is not like that, truth, reality is profoundly deep and far beyond thought.
Faith becomes the evidence of that belief rather than the inner confidence in our connection to the source of life. Whenever Jesus worked with people he never said that he would heal them, he touched them and stated that "their faith was what made them whole". Faith is the confidence in the connection to the animating force of the universe, the animus, the eros, the chi, the prana, the ki.
The creative, intelligent, compassionate force that is actually god is flowing through us, in fact is the source of our life and expression of life. Unfortunately we have created a false sense of self apart from that source and that is the entity that is fearful and vulnerable. As expressions of god we have an inner strength and beauty that is untapped by the egoic sense of self that is false and fearful. when jesus performed a miracle, to him it was not a miracle, it was to us as observers, to our small, programmed, conditioned minds.
This is the mistake made by those who teach Tantra, Reiki, meditation, and a score of other rituals. The mind is conditioned and programmed, the false sense of self is the entity that wants to learn, wants to achieve, wants to "get something" or "get somewhere". Writing a book or holding a seminar to teach meditation to a roomful of beings who do not understand their beingness will never work.
