Zen Master Eido Roshi answers the question, 'Does God exist?'

[Yarco]

This guy says Buddhism does not see God as the creator of heaven and earth, or humans.

I'm really confused because I thought Buddhists mostly see enlightenment and God the same way that Leo talks about. Absolute infinity/nothingness/love. Something greater than the universe that includes and interpenetrates all aspects of it.

If everything exists within God, how is God not a creator? Was everything not created just in this perfect way to maximize love?

Is this guy just wrong?

[Leo Gura]

He's simply not conscious of what God is.

God-realization is a very advanced stage of awakening.

You have to go really deep to realize that you are God and that you created the whole universe.

Just because someone is a Buddhist does not make him God-realized.

The only proper answer to the question of "Does God exist?" is: YOU ARE GOD! DUMMY!

[iamme]

15 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

He's simply not conscious of what God is.

God-realization is a very advanced stage of awakening.

You have to go really deep to realize that you are God and that you created the whole universe.

Just because someone is a Buddhist does not make him God-realized.

The only proper answer to the question of "Does God exist?" is: YOU ARE GOD! DUMMY!

Nice and so freaking true <3 Pity it might take forever for most of us to catch up. 

[Nak Khid]

21 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

He's simply not conscious of what God is.

God-realization is a very advanced stage of awakening.

You have to go really deep to realize that you are God and that you created the whole universe.

Just because someone is a Buddhist does not make him God-realized.

The only proper answer to the question of "Does God exist?" is: YOU ARE GOD! DUMMY!

why do you assume the universe was created rather than always existed?

[Leo Gura]

23 minutes ago, Nak Khid said:

why do you assume the universe was created rather than always existed?

You created it.

Who else could have?

[Nak Khid]

32 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

You created it.

Who else could have?

if the universe is infinite it has always been there not created at some point 

[zeroISinfinity]

1 minute ago, Nak Khid said:

if the universe is infinite it has always been there not created at some point 

No limits boyo. 

[zeroISinfinity]

Actual Infinity. It's terrifying it really is. 

[Leo Gura]

17 minutes ago, Nak Khid said:

if the universe is infinite it has always been there not created at some point 

If the Universe is One, creation and existence are identical.

When you create breakfast, who is creating it? What is creation?

You have no problem admitting you created breakfast, but you deny you created the Universe.

[Nak Khid]

21 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

If the Universe is One, creation and existence are identical.

When you create breakfast, who is creating it? What is creation?

You have no problem admitting you created breakfast, but you deny you created the Universe.

For me to have created breakfast there was a time prior to that point where I was sleeping and then taking a shower before making breakfast. 
The creation of the breakfast did not infinitely exist. 

Therefore if there was a point at which the universe was created  that means the universe is finite. 
It is speculation to assume there was a point where it was created rather than always existed. 

However the universe might be finite. If that is the case it was created rather than has existed infinitely 

Edited July 14, 2020 by Nak Khid

[VeganAwake]

Huevos rancheros, chilaquiles, biscuits and gravy = Andromeda Galaxy, Large Magellanic Cloud, Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy. 

Sometimes I throw on a little Tapatio and black pepper call it the red hole starfish conundrum.

Edited July 14, 2020 by VeganAwake

[Synchronicity]

3 minutes ago, Nak Khid said:

For me to have created breakfast there was a time prior to that point where I was sleeping and then taking a shower before making breakfast. 
The creation of the breakfast did not infinitely exist. 

Therefore if there was a point at which the universe was created  that means the universe is finite. 
It is speculation to assume there was a point where it was created rather than always existed. 

??
 

Infinity is beginningless and was never created. It just IS 

pure is-ness 

[Leo Gura]

14 minutes ago, Nak Khid said:

For me to have created breakfast there was a time prior to that point where I was sleeping and then taking a shower before making breakfast. 
The creation of the breakfast did not infinitely exist. 

Therefore if there was a point at which the universe was created  that means the universe is finite. 
It is speculation to assume there was a point where it was created rather than always existed. 

You designed every hair on your body.

God is that which created itself.

[AlwaysBeNice]

That's not your experience...

[Nak Khid]

12 minutes ago, VeganAwake said:

Huevos rancheros, chilaquiles, biscuits and gravy = Andromeda Galaxy, Large Magellanic Cloud, Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy. 

Sometimes I throw on a little Tapatio and black pepper call it the red hole starfish conundrum.

Self Inquiry 

[Inliytened1]

46 minutes ago, Nak Khid said:

For me to have created breakfast there was a time prior to that point where I was sleeping and then taking a shower before making breakfast. 
The creation of the breakfast did not infinitely exist. 

Therefore if there was a point at which the universe was created  that means the universe is finite. 
It is speculation to assume there was a point where it was created rather than always existed. 

However the universe might be finite. If that is the case it was created rather than has existed infinitely 

I think you are missing what he is saying.  For something to be infinite means it has no beginning and no end - which is identical to saying it created itself.

Infinity just IS itself.  There ain't nothing outside of it.  Its total.

[Natasha]

@Nak Khid The formless 'gives birth to'/'creates' form, though they're same/of same essence, as in wave in the ocean or sand castle and sand.

[SoonHei]

2 hours ago, iamme said:

Nice and so freaking true <3 Pity it might take forever for most of us to catch up. 

Thankful "forever" is just a blink of the eye in the land of eternity

[Consept]

If you made eggs for breakfast, the eggs came from chickens of which their ancestry can be traced back to the beginning of time. Before time there was no material only consciousness so, material was created from consciousness which set the ball rolling for your scrambled eggs 

[DrewNows]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

He's simply not conscious of what God is.

God-realization is a very advanced stage of awakening.

You have to go really deep to realize that you are God and that you created the whole universe.

Just because someone is a Buddhist does not make him God-realized.

The only proper answer to the question of "Does God exist?" is: YOU ARE GOD! DUMMY!

 not everybody's awakenings turn them into god-heads, only certain types of people reflect on their true nature in this way (not that it's good, bad, right or wrong)

Edited July 14, 2020 by DrewNows