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Originally posted by Asar Imhotep:
If God is essentially us and we are eminations of the one supreme being, is it wrong to pray to something we think is external, when according to tradition, we are that essential essence called "God?"
If you are asking specifically "is it wrong to pray to something we think is external..." then that is a deep philosophical question.
Meaning perhaps, that praying to God "out there" somwhere is demonstrating the belief that God is not internal, in a sense implying and stating that God is not within!
But what does one do with the millenia of conditioning to pray to an Icon, a Buddha, even a nonesistence...
Funny backhanded compliment you give Asar Imhotep, bonking us for praying to something external - while reminding us we ARE God! I like this...
If I wish a war to cease, I pray to the external forms of myself, the warriors, to come to the awareness that war is futile (and I also ACT on my prayer). But then, I know that the external and internal are connected, one, so to speak.
But then I practice Brahma type of awareness, the seer seeing the seen, "wrapping around to experience itself" as Deepak Chopra writes...
Allow me to pose a question to you Asar Imhotep, would you suggest that people don't pray to something external and instead pray to essential essence within?
Love and light being, Teo
