Friday, March 20, 2009

God is God whether we have a name for God or not

“The tào that can be told is not the eternal Tào
The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

The unnameable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin of all particular things.”
(Tào Té Chīng)

Why does God or the Absolute have to be expressed only in negative terms? Why does the understanding of the Ultimate Reality often define Nothing in Traditional religious understanding? Ultimate Reality can be referred to directly as a Divine Object, not a name only, not a nameless nothing, but a Being, God, who is part of the world as the highest evolved Being in the Kosmos. Naming God does not make God less, unless God is nothing, or unless God is only considered a name. And the name or definition of God alone is not God. It does not matter what the name of God is, God is God whether we have a name for God or not. In any case, we are too ignorant at this stage in our evolution to accurately name God.

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