(March 3, 2012 at 9:57 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: What is the cause of time and space? Is your experience of pain more painful than mine?
These are interesting questions. Is the Big Bang the cause of time and space? I think time and space have MANY interrelated causes that can probably never be fully understood with science alone. The universe is too big, we can only see a fraction of it with our telescopes, and that is usually an ambiguous interpretation at it's furthest view.
Is your pain more painful than mine or vice versa? This reminds me of the First Noble Truth in the Dharma. Life is suffering.
It also depends on our threshold of pain and relationship to it. Physical injuries and disease, mental/emotional anguish and despair...they are all interrelated and connected ad infinitum, like nerve endings. Yet Buddha does reveal a way out of this dilemma which I am still searching and striving for. I have had mixed results thus far, yet see and feel on the horizon shimmering glimpses of Buddha's loving brilliance.
As far as God is concerned...nobody knows what God is but we throw around the word like as if it was recognizably definitive. What is God? A man, a woman, an object, the Sun, the Universe, the force, the Tao, what????? The word GOD should be eradicated from the human vocabulary all together to quell alot of misunderstanding.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
