You are God (and there is no God)

Time, space and object exist only as categories of individual mind. If there is no individual mind there is no time, space nor object.

– Paramhamsa Satyananda Saraswati

 

The mind is such a tricky thing.  We live in a world of thoughts and ideas, concepts and beliefs.  The more naïve among us take this for reality.  As one investigates more deeply into oneself however it becomes apparent that the world we perceive is our creation.  As Buddha put it in the Dhammapada:  Experience follows from thought.  It is our thoughts that create suffering or happiness.

Meditation helps us move into an awareness of thoughts and feelings and consequently into a deeper sense of identity.  Our deeper self doesn’t buy into the sales pitch of the world.  It sees through the advertisements saying “this could be the new bigger and better you.”  Our deeper self is grounded in peace and perfection. 

We are inseparable expressions of the one being we call God.  There is nothing that is not God.  However we have the choice to see this or not.  We can use the power of mind to create suffering if that is what we want.  We can use the same power to create happiness.

There was a song in the 70’s by John Lennon called “God.”  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jknynk5vny8) In it he sang, “God is a concept by which we measure our pain.”  Lennon was a courageous thinker and songwriter.  He also wrote “Imagine”  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRhq-yO1KN8) which challenges conventional ways of thinking. 

“God” is a concept; a creation of our minds.  So is “love,” “truth,” even “reality.”  When we let it all go we encounter our true being.