Zen Gnosticism's Explanantion of The Holy Trinity

Religious scholars have spent the last 1500 years writing reams trying to explain the "three in one" concept of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) in his Autobiography of a Yogi (1946) covered it in a footnote: the Father is unmanifested, the Son is manifested and the Holy Spirit is what links them together.

Consider that Jesus said "the Kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:21)  To me that says that the soul is the unmanifested deity, the body is the manifested form in this reality and the mind is the link between them.  This is true of all life-kind.

Was Jesus divine?  Of course he was.  Just like everyone else.  The same is true of Buddha, Lao Tsu and Chang Tse and every other holy person who has ever existed.  Every single life form possesses some tiny element of deity within the mortal framework.  The ability to realize that nature is a function of the mind.  We do not come from God nor can we return to God because we already have God within us.

For all we know, GDW (God-Dao-Whatever) also changes, grows, even evolves based on what life in the mortal world experiences.  As Doctor 11 said in The Big Bang (S5-E13) "We're all just stories, in the end.  Just make it a good one, eh?"  The only things we can take with us from this life are our memories and our experiences -- good and bad.  Those energies ripple out into the cosmic ocean affecting all that comes after.

 

The Ten Commandments vs Zen Gnosticism's Ten Guides

With the latest conservative craze being that posting the Bible's Ten Commandments in schools will somehow produced moral citizens -- despite nearly two millennia of evidence to the contrary -- I thought I would off my Zen Gnostic alternative:  Buddhism's Eight Fold Path plus Wicca's two laws.

Rather than telling us what NOT to do, Buddhism gives us clear guidance on what forms correct choices:

• Right view
• Right resolve
• Right speech
• Right conduct
• Right livelihood
• Right effort
• Right mindfulness
• Right samadhi ('meditative absorption or union'; alternatively, equanimous meditative awareness) 

And the two Wiccan laws:

• An it harm none, do what thou will
• All thou doest returns to thee three-fold 

An omnipotent and omnipresent deity surely can come up with laws that can't be violated with impunity.  Since the Biblical commandments can be and have been broken,  they are not God's laws -- they are Man's.  God's Laws show up in science -- in physics, in medicine, in  mathematics.  If you doubt me, just go to the roof and step off.  You will find the law of gravity in full effect -- no matter what you believe.   

In my hedge maze analogy, all of us are striving to make it closer to the Dao center of the maze in each pass through life.  Thus these ten are more likely to help the traveler to pass through the maze than the Biblical commandments.  At each choice point one should consider if the path conforms to the goal of reaching the center.

Keep in mind that no choice you make will prevent your inevitable death.  The maze is in constant motion, constant change with new paths opening while other paths vanish.  

Choose wisely.