What is “God”?

God is not the radiant figure of “Christ Jesus” appearing in the sky. Nor is God the image of “Shakyamuni Buddha” seated upon a golden lotus in the void. It is not that kind of image.

God is the unchanging clarity and peace behind your heart, within the perception of your soul. That is the true God.

That is the channel, the platform through which you communicate with God. It is the channel through which the love of Christ Jesus and the wisdom of Shakyamuni Buddha merge within you.

God is simply love.

God is simply love. Through the complex system of human karma, this love reveals itself through several qualities: selflessness, forgiveness, pardon, devotion, and purity.

The inner experience behind these qualities, when brought together, is the quality of pure life manifesting as the light of Heaven.

God unconditionally loves, accepts, bears, protects, purifies, and embraces every soul.

God is love, and love is God.

Regardless of the form through which God manifests, the essence of life behind that form, the state of consciousness behind it, and the quality of its perception must ultimately be the same.

It must be a warmth that is completely selfless and without ego.

It must be the ultimate purity of peace.

It must be an unconditional love and salvation extended toward all sentient beings, undisturbed by the self of this physical body.

It must be willing to bear the hardships and suffering of sentient beings without being controlled by the pain of one’s own personality and thoughts, without the slightest expectation or complaint.

This is God.

Only one who reaches such a state, such a state of the heart and mind, is God.