In the name of God!!

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Beyond the Second Attention

The truth has a place for all who prescribe. It is best stated that all religions are in grasp of this belief. There is one measure for the Hindu, one for the Muslim. The Jew and the Christian all share in a measure of this truth. In lieu of attachment to G-D belief, for the Buddha is God-Consciousness… The Buddhists and many offshoot religions from all origins have witnessed the truth and are also enlightened to a like measure.

All factions are further blessed with anointing to support their way. For Allah,(G-D) the Masters include Abraham, Moses, Mohammad and Jesus and others. For the Hindu there is Rama, Krishna, Saraswati and others. There is a distinction for some of a trinity as in Christian and Hindu belief.

A unique example follows, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit for the Christian and Brahma, Vishna, and, Shiva for the Hindu. For both religions, the three are from the one, but are represented by factions within the one that serve creation distinctly. One is creator another is preserver and the last dissolution / recreation, as considered in the order given above.

Another link listed below explains another aspect of trinity:

Finally, the Mahayanists completed the conversion of Buddhism from a philosophy to religion. Therevada Buddhism holds that Buddha was a historical person who, on his death, ceased to exist. There were, however, strong tendencies for Buddhists to worship Buddha as a god of some sort; these tendencies probably began as early as Buddha's lifetime.

The Mahayanists developed a theology of Buddha called the doctrine of "The Three Bodies," or Trikaya. The Buddha was not a human being, as he was in Theravada Buddhism, but the manifestation of a universal, spiritual being. This being had three bodies. When it occupied the earth in the form of Siddhartha Gautama, it took on the Body of Magical Transformation (nirmanakaya).

This Body of Magical Transformation was an emanation of the Body of Bliss (sambhogakaya), which occupies the heavens in the form of a ruling and governing god of the universe. There are many forms of the Body of Bliss, but the one that rules over our world is Amithaba who lives in a paradise in the western heavens called Sukhavati, or "Land of Pure Bliss."

Finally, the Body of Bliss is an emanation of the Body of Essence (dharmakaya), which is the principle underlying the whole of the universe. This Body of Essence, the principle and rule of the universe, became synonymous with Nirvana. It was a kind of universal soul, and Nirvana became the transcendent joining with this universal soul.

http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/BUDDHISM/MAHAYANA.HTM

The following link explains this further regarding Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist aspects of Truth or G-D (Allah).

A name a day

Throughout the month, Muslims recite the Koran and ``use the 99 names to sharpen their understanding of how God, the divine, permeates our daily life,'' says Michael Wolfe, a Santa Cruz writer and poet. ``They might pick one each day: Al-Karim, the Generous One, or Al-Haqq, the Truth, and meditate on it -- as one in another religion might meditate on a mantra . . . Obviously, we're dealing with a concept that's impossible to attach words to, so these names provide a direction for understanding something about the divine.''

Wolfe's Muslim name is Abd Al-Majid, or servant of the Glorious One, which is one of the 99 names.

The first 200 years of Islam were dominated by philosophical debates over how these names and attributes of the Lord were to be interpreted. To this day, there is scholarly disagreement over just how many names God has. While 99 is a handy number, it may simply represent holy shorthand for ``a lot of names,'' says Hisham Abdallah, a Palo Alto clinical pharmacologist and Islamic scholar.

In fact, over the centuries, some experts have concluded that there are an infinite number of names for God, who is infinitely manifest throughout creation. Muhammad hinted at this in a famous supplication to Allah, which is God's proper name in Islam.
Abdallah -- whose name means ``servant of Allah''-- notes that most of the 99 names were revealed in the Koran, which refers to God as the ``Master'' or ``Cherisher of the Worlds'' in its first verse.

But other names have been handed down through hadith, or sayings, attributed to Muhammad. One states that God has 3,000 names: 1,000 are known only by angels, and 1,000 only by the prophets of Islam, who include Abraham, Moses and Jesus. The hadith goes on to say that 300 names for God are found in the Torah, 300 in the Zabur (Arabic for Psalms of David), 300 more in the New Testament, and 99 in the Koran. This makes 2,999 names. One last name -- hidden by Allah, according to some interpretations -- is called Ism Allah al-azam: ``The Greatest Name of Allah.''

Echoes of Moses

It has been said that this name -- which sounds remarkably like the magician's exhortation Allikazam! -- has uncontainable powers. The concept is reminiscent of the Jewish belief that God's true name, whispered to Moses at the burning bush, is unknown and too awesome to comprehend.

In Zen, they have similar ideas,'' says Thomas Cleary, an Oakland-based translator of spiritual texts. Cleary, who is working on a translation of the Koran, recited a couple of Zen Buddhist adages: `` `When you hear the last word, you go deaf.’. . . `Don't stare at the truth or you'll go blind.' They express the same idea about facing absolute truth'' and its incomprehensible powers.

To bring these discussions down to earth, Muslim school children are taught from an early age to memorize God's 99 most famous names. In this way, they learn to think about God, always. They learn the Prophet Muhammad's statement that the doors of paradise are open to those who remember the 99 names. And like their parents, when they pray, they often begin with these words:
``Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim,'' which means: ``In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful”

Rahim, the Merciful, are perhaps the two most prominent names for God in Islam. Many Muslims make supplications to the merciful and compassionate God throughout the day:

Bismillah' might be said before a meal or if you are about to start your homework or give a speech,'' said Abdallah, of Palo Alto. ``God's servants should always try to remember and to mimic the names of God -- within human ability. . . If I'm in a position of being tested, I can remember the name As-Sabur, the One With Infinite Patience.

It might be something as simple as your kids getting on your nerves -- that can be a test! Or more serious things: Maybe someone is antagonizing you or abusing you. Wherever a situation needs patience. You want to change something and it's not changing, and you remember the name As-Sabur.''

http://www.templemount.org/impersonal.html

The gates of grace will try to only witness to what is true. To show one measures of this or that, then appeal toward what fails to conform to the first… that does not serve G-D (Allah).

In truth there is only consistency. As applied to the word of Allah (G-D) there is only the flawless word of wisdom. Therefore for those who proclaim to witness contrived inconsistencies in the word as given in the scriptures and Holy Books of worship; is it an offering that supports a lack of truth and understanding in their faith and understanding? In this way, perhaps they are defined to measures of the first attention.

It should be noted in conclusion that all Spiritual Masters have followed the truth as given in the flawless word of G-D (Allah). Their existence serves only the one whom they love. Should we not do the same?

Allah alim (God knows best)

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agyat

God do not need an identity, minds do!

Guest

I prefer "The The" or maybe "Whois". Quite frankly, I don't understand why God would care about what name we apply to God. As they say, "what's in a name?".

agyat

Names are nothing more than references. They are needed for better communication only. If we call 'The Sun' with different references in different languages, does that make any difference?