Using words like "God", "Creator", even "higher power" - all of them send the mind off into particular directions. Such words have to be used yet they can be pernicious in terms of any grasp of Truth/Reality (which are more words......😀)
Even the word "belief" can be problematic.
There is undoubtedly something. We cannot doubt our own existence. Do we necessarily have to "believe" in anything in particular? Is there some sort of judgement of us based upon what we believe? Or how we act. How we think?
We simply need to let go, stop fearing the river of change. Let go and stand upon the firm ground of emptiness!
It is all there. The light shines in the darkness but the darkness comprehends it not. I think that it is when we start to believe that we have "comprehended" it that the trouble starts. The fear of being wrong. The judgement of others who disagree with us.
The wise and beautiful words of Thomas Merton, in his introduction to his "The Way of Chuang Tzu":-
For Chuang Tzu, as for the Gospel, to lose one’s life is to save it, and to seek to save it for one’s own sake is to lose it. There is an affirmation of the world that is nothing but ruin and loss. There is a renunciation of the world that finds and saves us in our own home, which is God’s world. In any event, the “way” of Chuang Tzu is mysterious because it is so simple that it can get along without being a way at all. Least of all is it a “way out.” Chuang Tzu would have agreed with St. John of the Cross, that you enter upon this kind of way when you leave all ways and, in some sense, get lost.
I love being lost, far from the madding crowd with their absurd beliefs and their smug self-satisfied piety - what Merton calls "the intolerable flippancy of the saved." Saved? From what?
Over and out.
