MY UNDERSTANDING OF AN ULTIMATE BEING

    As I look around at what I perceive as objects either animate or inanimate – other humans, animals, trees, plants, rocks, or oceans, even my own reflection – I am seeing or perceiving God. The word God, or god is a term conceptualized as a way to define or categorize a being, thought, belief, or idea. God is energy existing in all that is natural, perfect in its state of being. A Buddhist belief is that all is perfection. Even when a tree breaks and falls and its elements slowly rot, it is perfect as it returns to its preexistent state, at one with the earth.
    Our existence is not bound by time, but by memory. Just as we try to capture or realize a moment, it is gone. And just like that moment, after we are gone we continue to exist in the memory of others.  From the moment we are born we begin the return to our being of nothingness, perfection in and of existence. The Ultimate Being is within and without us.
    As Cobb (1977) describes in his paper “Buddhist Emptiness and the Christian God”, our subjectivism leads us to think of an Ultimate Being in terms of dualism, wholly separate from God, unseen from our sensate reality. Therein lies the search, ever striving for knowledge and validation. It is within this outward search that frustrations are realized, while all that is perceived sometimes lends itself to doubt. It is in this constant desiring to want to know, instead of the knowing itself that keeps us ever separated. It is like trying to grasp and hold on to a fleeting moment.