God and Emptiness
Question:
Emptiness, the unmanifest, permeates and penetrates the entire Universe, and seemingly all things. So the manifest and unmanifest are intertwined. Molecules, atoms and sub-atomic particles all seem to be mostly empty space. I doubt this space is actually empty but instead is filled by the being and presence of God: the Ultimate, which is holding all these particles in orbit or manifestation and preventing everything from drifting into chaos or disintegration. Religious people say that God is always present...that we are never alone. Is God always present in the emptiness that it would seem the entire universe is built upon...like a matrix of divine mind, presence and being? If so, everything is God...perhaps, especially (or not!) emptiness. Am I right?
Answer:
Sounds right to me. We can say that everything is God in the sense that the presence of God is immanent in everything. What we call empty space is just a way of describing distance without measurable particulate matter. Quantum mechanically, the foundation of the matter is described as a field is which is non-local and contains everything in potentiality, so it is neither empty nor spatial.. God is certainly immanent in all creation, manifest and unmanifest, but God is transcendental to creation and all our concepts of God as well. That is mystery of ultimate reality.
Love,
Deepak
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