A detailed understanding is an opportunity. Understanding is not limited to the mind, but, is enhanced by it. Flattening concepts and washing out details is shallow not deep.
I think you missed my point, you do not have to agree with my viewpoint, but the way I've come to view God is shaped by my experiences, and certainly not shallow to me, sorry that offended you friend.
Ah. So balance is not your god, and reintegration is not the goal. The ideal you are describing is absolute detachment which is the opposite of reintegration. It's a version of oblivion. Not to worry friend. If you have fully detached and cannot distinguish between good and evil, there will always be people like me who can. It's an important skill because freedom cannot exist in isolation.
Freedom requires thoughtful judges to establish borders, boundries, and territories and defend them. Otherwise freedom will always be under attack, and those who are detached will not have a space to thrive. Freedom isn't free.
I am certainly not describing detachment. It is quite the opposite. I am not nihilistic nor have advocated for it, but one should have the goal to honor everything without becoming identified with it. Every experience is sacred, but not to hold on to anything, not to identify your ego to it. Good and evil do not exist, only within your own mind. There is no objective good and evil.
Consciousness freeing itself from identification is not detachment. It is the opposite, because that same consciousness will remember itself, and its true nature. Everything that was "detached" from, was never
real in the first place. The things you are talking about becoming detached from are ego constructs.
Eckhart Tolle illustrates this by saying, "If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and two minutes later he gets eaten by another fish - that's tragic. But it's only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of a dynamic process, a molecular dance, and made a separate entity out of it."
Invoking Isaiah doesn't work if the meaning of the words are ignored and if their meaning is flip-flopped. Isaiah did not write in english. The verse doesn't say God is all, the verse says God is the creator of all. That's a big difference.
I was not using the quote as citing the power of the Bible as a 'shield' for my interpretation, but rather used my interpretation from,
yes, the english translation to convey
my point, not the Bible's. Don't get attached to any certain word, one
should experiment and substitute words. Words are signposts, labels, pointing to these truths in various ways. Perhaps one shouldn't ascribe too much importance to
exactly how the Bible was written by its authors. It was written by men after all, and just because their interpretation is a certain way, certainly does not make it "right", The Bible is designed to get you to
investigate these truths on your own, not to blindly follow them or memorize hollow scripture verses.
Again, it is not a huge difference to me what the original meaning of the verse was by its human authors, as I was ascribing my own interpretation onto it based off my experiences. Besides, I do not think 'God' is Yahweh.
I appreciate that, and I believe that you mean it. But. If what you've written is followed to its logical conclusion, those good wishes are hollow. If we are all one consciousness, and there are no individual identities, then any rape, any murder, any theft, against anyone is a rape, a murder, a theft directly against me. Advocating for rape and murder in principle is advocating for rape and murder in practice. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Identity as illusion is one of the oldest and most widely attested to spiritual concepts. My point is not to convince you because again, your mind
cannot ever comprehend something of this nature, sure it can enhance your understanding if you know the
theory, but that theory is just a mental container, it is shallow and limited and can never come close to the level of understanding that is experienced by being.
Also, I am not advocating for rape and murder, if you can find me saying that please quote it. All these 'evils'
come from a place of unconsciousness in the first place, from a lack of understanding your true nature, as God. People who commit rape and murder are aligned to the belief that everybody is fragmented, distinct, disconnected from one an another, and they are driven uncontrollably to commit those actions because of growth that egoic dysfunction, of that illusion of separateness from God.
It seems like you are becoming personally identified with the argument yourself which is being expressed by becoming emotionally frustrated and insulting my beliefs. I will once again state, that my beliefs are shaped by my experiences, maybe they are subject to change, life is impermanent. My goal was to have a discussion, not an argument.