The "divine" as Mother?

The Ten Commandments were written in stone just as they are written in the human heart. Maybe that's why the human heart is so hard.

This dying to self has much in common with Buddhism, yes?

a hardend heart for other beliefs is found in stone.
the rain comes with no lables.



please explain.

I was hoping you would explain.

i have not studied buddhism

but to let myself die, i can better understand others.

I consider god as been neither man or woman. Man and women were invented by him in order for humans to reproduce.

It is a human tendency to anthropomorphize the divine. We ascribe various attributes to God such as being our father or mother.

You're right that God is neither man or woman. In our attempts to describe the Divine we fall back on meanings which we can readily understand.

The "Our Father" in the Lord's Prayer brings to mind what most of us are culturally conditioned to accept as masculine attributes of the Divine.

If we only understand God as "Him" then we tend to focus on the Divine as being outside and apart from "His" creation.

The earth is seen as our "mother" because we are made of the same stuff and we come from "her". We tend to understand the feminine as being placed in a subordinate role as she waits receptively for the action of the masculine. Neither is more or less important than the other except that, in most cultures, action is valued over receptivity.

We are naturally nurtured by the earth and by our own mothers. The act of nurturing is seen as a more feminine occupation. We can come to the understanding that the Divine creates and nurtures us not only as a father but as a mother as well. In this way neither is more important or given more power but both are valued equally.