Short Story: The Zen of God. The infiniteness of oneness

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The Zen master, Gohler Zerploski, used to tell his students that there were actually infinite Gods, not just one. Here is one of his recent talks to his students: “God is often envisaged as sitting on his throne as a person within his own creation.” “This is impossible, as we humans, can build our own chair, and sit on it too, but we are using materials from outside of our self to do that.” “How can God do that too, as nothing could be outside of him?” “How can God use his own creation, and insert himself in it, as an object, and still run it, from outside of it too, by splitting himself in this way?” “The answer is that it is the God above our God that created Heaven, and placed our God in it to rule this World.” “And this same procedure works on up the line, infinitely so, and never stops, as the God right at the top, is not at the top, but compiled of all that is under him too.” “So, the deeper that you look into yourself, you travel across this infinite existence, along its length, reaching God, in the deepest abyss of yourself.” “God holographically exists in all, so he exists both infinitely and solely, or onely, and not onely, so too speak, as such.” “Now, these ideas really describe man, more than they describe God.” “It is the way that a man thinks, not how God thinks.” “From God’s perspective, all must be oneness, and all must be God, but infinity is just a concept of man, not of God, as all is always one with God, but man, thinking as only himself, only sees infinite divisibleness, so he postulates about infinite Gods, because he can never understand, or grasp fully, the idea of oneness, unless he disappears as himself, and immerses himself into oneness totally too.” "If every part of creation did this, there would be infinite Gods within the one God." "Creation is such that like God, we can be as God, but individually present as ourselves too." "We can sit on our throne, and eat the cake that we made, but stay separate from all of this, by staying within the oneness of it all too." Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com God always has his cake, and eats it too.