Is God in Both the Good and the Evil?

Question:

Dear Ariel,

Do you also appreciate God in everyday life, or mostly alone time in prayer or meditation?

I’m wondering if I’m on the right path to connecting with God. Here’s what I’ve been doing and hopefully you can tell me what you think about this…

I’ve been appreciating God when I look into the eyes of a baby, or a dog. I appreciate God when I hear my favorite music. This is especially confusing to me if I should think of God because I love bands like Nine Inch Nails and Korn which are quite dark but I really love it.

Basically everyone I come into face to face contact with, I try and silently acknowledge them as God, even if they are being rude.

Am I on the right path, or should it be more an inward journey of meditation and in solitude?

And also is it right to appreciate God in things which are dark, or should the acknowledgment be exclusive to things which are light?

Thanks a lot!

J

My response:

Great question.

We could say that at a certain level, God is generally found more through the light than the dark, yet God is in all that is so truly seeing things as they are would mean one sees the God in even the darkness. There is NOTHING but God. God is truly beyond the duality of good and evil or light and dark.

The easiest way to find God, however, is to look without mentation. To see without labeling, categorizing, or any of that other mental farting action. This is generally what happens when you look a baby in the eye or sit back and enjoy the presence of the music. You allow the energy to flow through you without mentally chattering about it.

Just be truly in the moment no matter what you’re doing and endeavor to see beyond what the veil of the mind covers.

It seems that it’s only by going beyond the mind that one can truly see God in everything, including even what is created through the mind. Otherwise one gets pissed, angry, and judgmental at things like rape, murder, stupidity, and so on.

The journey inward to experience things totally as they are is definitely a helpful part of the path.

The meditation in solitude can be good practice for allowing yourself to experience without the ego pasting its interpretation on top of what is, but it’s not the only time one can do this. The exercise of meditation gives you practice in adopting a new way of life, a lifestyle that you can incorporate into every moment of your day-to-day life.

That which we call God is truly available in All That Is so yes, it is appropriate to acknowledge God in all that is. Just keep in mind that the ego itself and all activity sourced in it is directly designed to deny or somehow replace God. Acknowledging the presence of and the power of God will help you see through the illusion of existence without God, of being disconnected from and separate from God.

God is All That Is.

Thanks for your question.