23 May 2012
------------
First let me establish that this book is very hard to digest and that it
has taken me almost one week to get through the first chapter.
Nevertheless, I’d like to point out some things I liked in the first
chapter:
The idea of God being hidden among all of the natural world, in fact,
the idea of God being THE entire world just boggles my mind. Far from
implanting in me this idea to be very frugal with the things on this
earth, this image tells me that I ought to enjoy life with the knowledge
that other manifestations of God need to enjoy it as well. God is
present all around us. This knowledge can revolutionize the world. God
is a grain of rice; God is a mountain top; God is the rocks that form
the base. This being the case I still raise the question of why God
occupies such terrible existences as starving people or evil people? Is
this existence not difficult?
I discovered that I must stop thinking of God as this benevolent being
who can only occupy a benevolent space, but I must instead picture a
massive FORCE which contains all of the potential for every type of
action regardless of consequence or connotation. This requires us to
take on a greater responsibility for what we do to ourselves and our
world. We are, in a sense, masters of our lives, but the OUR becomes
bigger because our is not individual but collective. We are the ones who
move the force to do good or evil. It is our intention that defines it.
No comments:
Post a Comment