But in God all difference breaks down, that's why God is purely good because in God even the difference between good and evil breaks down. That's also why God is nothingness, because God can not be defined oppositionally to anything, only in relation to him/herself (giving God male characteristics, for instance, means to construct a false idol in worship of masculinity). That is to say, I'm not saying that God is nothing because nothing is still defined in relation to something. God transcends the duality between something/nothing altogether, which is why we can only think about God as nothingness, because we can not think about God. God does not need to create anything, God is creation, we are all the result of God overflowing, because God is being and being is somehow more than itself. But this also means that we are God, and participate in God, that our ground is God and the highest peak we reach for is also God. There is no difference between Heaven and Nirvana, both are just names for union with God, for pure being.
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