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This makes one mature — if you can get rid of God you are mature.
According to me, twenty-one years of age does not make you mature, adult.
Only one thing makes man mature, and that is getting rid of God — because God is a bundle of all kinds of fears, greeds, hopes. It is opium; it keeps you drugged.
But while you are drugged your life is slipping by, and soon death will knock on the door and then it will be too late.
We need murderers! Ones who are courageous to kill GOD from their belief and start moving towards knowing him. GOD is dead and let’s celebrate life!
All beliefs are stupid. That’s why when someone say I believe in god I have to admit that I think of him as unconscious idiot. Do you believe in Sun? NO definitely not why? because you can see Sun and feel him that’s why you never say that I bleive in Sun. there should be only two categories whether you know god or you do not know God! Rest is immaterial, all this talks about belief in God is nonsense.
I do not believe in God Becasue I know god. I see him, feel him, smell him, taste him every moment of my life. I never had any reason to believe coz i know. things I do not believe are the ones I do not know.
You have millions of priests and none of them has the courage to say that he has encountered God.
Not even the representatives — the pope, the shankaracharyas, Ayatollah Khomeini — not even these people are courageous enough to say that they have encountered God.
They are as afraid as you are; there are doubts in their minds as there are doubts in your mind, because doubts disappear only when you have experienced something.
God is not a question of belief, it is an experience of inner light.
Then you can give it any name.
You can call it God, you can call it truth, you can call it love, you can call it peace.
You can call it life — it does not matter what word is used, but it should be based on experience.
Once you have experienced your light, you know there is no need of any other God.
The whole existence is godly.
Love and lots of it dear ones
Suresh
Wise words.
And beautiful photography.
YES INDEED, MY MAIN MAN SURESH!You’ve just hit a nail on the head! Everything is on the reach of one’s hand (or eye). Experience is the only tangible thing in the whole universe! If you’re thirsty you can buy Evian bottled water or you can drink from the spring.
I would add something to your post, or actually you can write in your future posts, also about good that is so often related to God.
I remember once talking to my dear friend and he said that in his life he’s determined to do good. I answered I decided that in my life I’ll do everything to avoid doing good. I added. When people are determined to do good, they are doing the most horrible things.
Hitler was convinced he’s doing good, Bush’s conviced he’s doing good, people who crucified Jesus were convinced they are doing good, Cathiolic Church and their inquisition was convinced they’re doing good by burning women alive, Palestinian suicide bombers are convinced they are doing good, Izraeli soldier who fires a missile at Palestinian refuge camp, he’s convinced that he’s doing good, Truman was convinced Hirošima and Nagasaki was good, Serbian extremists Chetniks were convinced it’s good to rape and kill Bosian muslims and I think there is not a criminal in the world who would think that he’s actions are in one way or another an action for good.
Can you touch this topic in the future posts?
Cheers, Borut
Suresh:
Really good stuff. What is odd is that so few people realize that letting go of the God concept suddenly gives you a perspective on how urgent it is for us to solve the problems of humanity. When one no longer has mythology and tradition to dictate morality, one’s morals grow up into a truly mature state.
Thanks for the excellently-written reminder.
–Ted
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wise, indeed. i agree god is something many people hide behind. people like that need god because they do not have it within themselves to live their own humanity. and, of course, we all know how people use the god concept to peddle their own agendas. some one in this comment thread alluded to the fact that ‘doing good’ is quite a relative concept. right on. why can’t humanity drop vague and meaningless words – labels, really – like good and just realise … that to be true to oneself really means to be true to one’s humanity. and to me, this means, a commitment to do what one can in one’s own life to relieve suffering.
Agent provocateur! Good post. All beliefs are not stupid though – ha! Cause before we can get to that (let me say symbolicaly) “perpendicular line of love” where we no longer see good or evil, we live in the meantime in “horizontal” swirl of creation, a world of polarities, and are building our ethics, distinguishing right from wrong. Yeah in the ultimate dimension its all love, but in the manifested world, running grandma over with our bike is not alright. ha ha! Maybe a splinter from the subject, but just a side point. I’m hungry to experience God. Currently I have no “communication” as to what it is that I am to do for “him”
But in the mean time, before Love, even blind faith or hope is better than no faith at all. One might not understand how or why things are happening, but at least intuitively sense that its there (before experiencing full realization/love, whatever you wanna call it). They did experients, where they threw a rat (poor thing) into a barrel of water. He swam arround for something like 12 hrs and keeled over. The second rat was thrown into the water filled barrel as well, but after a 5 hr struggle, shown a ladder. The rat climbed onto it to his salvation but was thrown back into the barrel. That second rat swam 19 more hrs!! Hope is very powerful. Faith is an even more powerful ‘carrying force’. It might be blind, but there is always a chance that we might experience love & full understanding. Cest non?
Splendid photo, but I’m sorry. I don’t believe in “experiencing an inner light” any more than I believe in God. Two ways of saying the same thing.
God is not. Period.
Yo Szwagier (very cute, czesc) if you don’t believe in God, then you will never experience God, and EVERYTHING will prove to you that there is no God. Pure quantum physics – ha!
Way to go Suresh. Some really strong points there.
See you know and realize the truth. But to pull the blinds off others eyes is a daunting task. Near to impossible. But not impossible.
Suresh, in a world of subjective reality everything is a belief. You “know” you’re currently reading text off a computer screen? That is a belief too, my dear friend.
Humans know nothing. That is our curse and our salvation.
Fluidspirit, does the inverse to your statement hold true?
I am not a religious person, never have been. I don’t mind if others wish to be god-fearing that is up to them.
Personally I think we should be fearful of a more powerful force than any God – that is MOTHER NATURE. We cannot mess with the dangerous weather and global hazards like earthquakes, tsunami’s and so on.
Andreas .. he he, it totally does. If you leave a crack open, there is always a chance light might flow into it. But if you’re closed… well God loves us so much, that he gave us free will, and we can believe and create our reality however we want it, indivudually and collectively. If we are closed to God, he’s not gonna impose himself. Go ahead little human being, you think you’re hot, fine, do it on your own you cute bucking bronko. Its like a liver cell sayin’ … I don’t believe in the liver, I can do it on my own. I’m separate from the liver. No problem, go ahead little one
Becs – God-fearing I think only means to be alert. Mother nature is part of the manifested world. God is both manifested & unmanifested. The creator set certain laws in the material sphere into motion, and we just have to learn them … there are gravitational laws, physics laws, chemichal laws, biological laws … if you are not careful around a cliff, gravitational laws might splatter you. People think that hurricanes are meteorological events … completely separate from human consciousness. If enough people prayed, they could actually change the course of a hurricane and tame it. But people as a group are not aware yet enough. They don’t know that the physical reality around them, they helped co-create. Its not a coincidence that tsunamis always hit the poorest areas in the world, where hoplessness and misery is rampant. Its actually a blessing for those souls to re-incarnate in better circumstances. Seems so destructive … but the way our world lives in many illusions right now .. people wanna find security in material objects (oops there goes my house in a tsunami) … that its a way to refocus our priorities, to shake us up, wake up!! The tsunami was destructive but also constructive in the sense that it unified many people. They refocused from galloping to satisfy their selfish self … and instead worked together in unity & spirit of comradery. No earthquake is ever a coincidence. There is always a cause and effect, we are just not aware of it. .. or what forces through our thoughts we bring onto ourselves. If we send hate, we get hate. If we send genuine, uncalculated love, we get love. If we lie, we are lied to, if we give criticism, we will receive criticism, and so on.
I think it is actually immature to bash as those who prefer to believe in some sort of theology. I think the mature ones in this area are those who live and let live, the apatheists, those who don’t give a stinkin’ care about others’ beliefs. Like me.
What about Jesus? Where does he fit in all of this?
Fluidspirit says “No earthquake is ever a coincidence. There is always a cause and effect, we are just not aware of it.”
We are aware of the cause, its to do with the rubbing of the earths plates when they shift together. Its just science, nothing godly about it at all:)
Ah, but much of science is actually theory, not law? How many times have the books been rewritten because the laws were corrected, or a new theory comes into town? The model of the atom has been rewritten like 4 or 5 times since the Greeks philosophised about it, going from a unit of energy with no electrons that was indestructable, to the Bohl model, to the Bohl model with nuetrons, to the quantom version that we now know can be separatable. God cannot be proven nor disproven (show me the physics otherwise [explained in laymans term so I can understand it. please, never took physics personally]), but science is never solid and unstuck, it is like a play, always moving, always changing, never the same twice.
Suresh, you have a happenin’ blog dude. Kudos! Dainjinryuu – hope our birthday cookie gets lots of celebratory nookie! Tanjobi Omedeto?? 20smth? Puppy! Of course truth in the created world is always relative. Twenty years ago in Poland they used to feed dogs with groats. Then studies showed this is unhealthy for canines, that they totally don’t digest it. Now again new studies confirmed that groats are good for pooches, ha ha! But there are certain universal laws that surpass the created world, and they are true whether we are riding on donkeys or flying in state of the art saucers. Love, non? God is not a science. God is a parascience, because you cannot prove God. If we wanted to see God, we would have to become another God. But God is one. We can only experience God from the inside. Anyway, Daijinryuu was laughing at me, stop me if I’m peddaling my beliefs. Either way, we are all interconnected – whether we know it or not.
There is no God.
Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man — living in the sky — who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time!
But He loves you.
He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can’t handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy Shit!
— George Carlin
Emm.. good preaching Suresh…realy love the way you penned.
*Real fight between reality vs illusion.
One more confusion amongst millions. That’s all. It is without any direction for a layman about what to believe and what to do! Only the style of writing is good.Let us accept the fact that there are limitations to the individual intellect and limitations to capacities to understand things happening around. Let us not blame the powers beyond our control. Let us accept weakness of human being. I am not a religous person at all. I belive that internal peace and bliss is GOD. If you achieve it without being religous, you have won. that’s all.
Amazing! Brilliant! Breathe Taking! These are the words I’d use to describe your blog every picture is a journey. I enjoyed just looking for now But when I go deepper into your words I know it will be just as Wonderful and Amazing as your photographs…….WOW!
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I lead a blind-sheep-like life that I am unable to assert that I exist or I am uncertain of my existence! And on the top I fight and assert for the remote ‘god’. This I think is an insult and disrespect to my life. O GOD, aloow me to LIVE MY LIFE!?