I practice buddhism and I understand that a diety is not god.
I also understand that Hinduism believes in a supreme Brahman (GOD) that is beyond comprehension and Buddhism believes in the ultimate reality which is also beyond comprehension.
I believed the purpose and use of the deity was to be able percieve particular ASPECTS of GOD which that deity exhibits. Then practicing to that diety is the act of becoming those aspects of GOD...to take on the nature of the diety.
The divinity is everything and everywhere. Vedic rishis got enlightened about the Big Bang a very long time ago. There is only matter & energy, nothing else. Matter on earth you know, and on other planets and universes u don't. Energy in the form of heat, UV, IR, electricity, etc u know, most of it u don't. To be able to percieve that we are just a bunch of atoms with matter & energy like everything else & tht we're co related is hard to do. Aim towards tht in the way of worship u like.
No one worships their own creations. Idols are set up as a place where the god might choose to manifest, if the idol has been properly purified and fed with appropriate sacrifices.
The Christian ritual of sanctification of a church serves the same purpose. The church becomes "sacred space" through the performance of ritual by properly purified priests.
The same principle is at work during the transubstantiation of the host into the body of Christ during the Christian mass.
Is that accurate?
KitehighTaco 1 year ago
I practice buddhism and I understand that a diety is not god.
I also understand that Hinduism believes in a supreme Brahman (GOD) that is beyond comprehension and Buddhism believes in the ultimate reality which is also beyond comprehension.
I believed the purpose and use of the deity was to be able percieve particular ASPECTS of GOD which that deity exhibits. Then practicing to that diety is the act of becoming those aspects of GOD...to take on the nature of the diety.
KitehighTaco 1 year ago
The divinity is everything and everywhere. Vedic rishis got enlightened about the Big Bang a very long time ago. There is only matter & energy, nothing else. Matter on earth you know, and on other planets and universes u don't. Energy in the form of heat, UV, IR, electricity, etc u know, most of it u don't. To be able to percieve that we are just a bunch of atoms with matter & energy like everything else & tht we're co related is hard to do. Aim towards tht in the way of worship u like.
indinoodle 1 year ago
No one worships their own creations. Idols are set up as a place where the god might choose to manifest, if the idol has been properly purified and fed with appropriate sacrifices.
The Christian ritual of sanctification of a church serves the same purpose. The church becomes "sacred space" through the performance of ritual by properly purified priests.
The same principle is at work during the transubstantiation of the host into the body of Christ during the Christian mass.
pirbird14 3 years ago