↩ Homepage of the site 'What to do with your life?' What is God?Warning : don't focus on this question. She is probably the most divisive, but certainly not the most interesting on this site. First of all, let's note that no one has direct access to God. So let's look at the problem the other way round. The astonishing answer is: modern science, or more exactly the laws that it observes in mathematics, physics, etc. From there, the search for God, a fundamental element of the monastic approach, should have been recast following the emergence of the modern scientific method in the 16th or 17th century. In this form, the equivalence with Buddhist non-duality is striking: sticking to what is, and not what one would like to be. That is to say, overcoming the ego. That is to say getting rid of social ambition, which we have seen constitutes one of the two main elements of our problematic behaviors inherited from genetics. Through this approach, we free ourselves from the negative consequences of social ambition, namely social violence, and we thus rediscover the notion of love so dear to Christians. Be careful though: love is a consequence of ego control. The question of the existence of GodIf 'What is God?' is a question that may be of some interest, but 'Does God exist?' is a pretty bad question. Pascal's Wager (see Wikipedia article) gives us an example of an answer to a semi-provable question obtained by asking the question incorrectly. Indeed, it assumes that the consequences of reprehensible behavior are positive for the individual during his life, and therefore that the good conduct of our life is ultimately dictated by our belief or not in the existence of God. DeepenOur proposition is not very far from those of philosophers who equate God with causality.
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