Just because there are cretinous bigots with pus filled brains of hatred who claim exclusive use of the word "God" does not mean that I cannot wrest the word from their clammy grasp, reclaim it, restore it to its proper place of honor. I so do.
I know there are many who leap and snort and tremble like a horse confronted with a flapping plastic bag at the very mention of the word "God." Blessings to you but I will not let that stop me.
"God" is a beautiful word for The Wellspring, That Which Births Us. God is as near (and nearer) to us as our breath, is the very Life that animates our being. God is also a Personality. In fact, the entire Cosmos teems with personality. Why do some of us not see this? Because we do not care to look. Our attention is fastened elsewhere. Our third eye, so to speak, is not yet open. As Avicenna's "Recital of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan" says, this lack of vision is due to "the wretched state of (our) faculties."
Contemplation (con-templum-ation), deliberately going to the templum, the clear open space of seeking, is essential. Like the augurs, the diviners, of old, one goes to this clear open space and sits expectantly with either a question in mind or no question at all. Revelation comes. The "third eye" opens.
A Presence is revealed. As Hafiz put it: "God and I are like two fat people in a boat bumping into each other and laughing."
I know there are many who leap and snort and tremble like a horse confronted with a flapping plastic bag at the very mention of the word "God." Blessings to you but I will not let that stop me.
"God" is a beautiful word for The Wellspring, That Which Births Us. God is as near (and nearer) to us as our breath, is the very Life that animates our being. God is also a Personality. In fact, the entire Cosmos teems with personality. Why do some of us not see this? Because we do not care to look. Our attention is fastened elsewhere. Our third eye, so to speak, is not yet open. As Avicenna's "Recital of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan" says, this lack of vision is due to "the wretched state of (our) faculties."
Contemplation (con-templum-ation), deliberately going to the templum, the clear open space of seeking, is essential. Like the augurs, the diviners, of old, one goes to this clear open space and sits expectantly with either a question in mind or no question at all. Revelation comes. The "third eye" opens.
A Presence is revealed. As Hafiz put it: "God and I are like two fat people in a boat bumping into each other and laughing."
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