Why doesn't God maintain direct communications with humanity?

[White_Tree]

I have always imagined that should there be a God and should one be in communication with the God that all things would seem simple, and clear, and beyond dispute. Maybe I am missing something about what it is people believe. Tell me more.

Have you ever solved a Zen Koan? Not just heard one, but actually solved one. They are teaching tools meant to help you learn to speak the language of the consciousness.

Once you solve it, the answer is simple, clear, and beyond dispute. But prior to being solved, it appears to be obscure, mysterious, impenetrable, and even self-contradictory.

What makes them impenetrable is not the koans themselves, but our own minds. We need to cut through the complexity and ignorance of our minds in order to see the Truth for what it is.

The Scriptures are like that too. My teacher could take obscure, seemingly impenetrable Scriptures and reveal the truth behind them in simple, intuitive ways, so that after hearing the explanation, we would wonder how it was that we were so blind and ignorant that we couldn’t see it for ourselves. He was also, by the way, very very good at solving koans.

It’s all the language of the consciousness. But we have to learn it, and overcome the complexity of our own mind in order to understand it. It requires learning how to think and perceive in a completely new way. And yet, despite being “new” compared to the way in which this material world has conditioned us to think, it is nevertheless completely natural and intuitive to the way we truly are inside, if we could only learn to access that true nature.

And so He said,

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. – Matthew 11:29-30

 

[meltzerboy2]

I can only speak for Jewish thinking in this area, and not even that. There is a partnership between Gd and mankind in which the latter agrees to study and restudy as well as practice Gd’s Law in an effort to repair the imperfect world. We are obliged to do our share in learning about what Gd intends for us and putting those intentions into action. We are not expected to be handed Gd’s intentions on a silver platter or let Gd do everything for us. We must show our faith and commitment.