Jack - not to beat a dead horse - because that would be pointless and strange - but is the light god?
Hi Cate
I too am interested in Jack's answer to your very good question.
Here is my own spontaneous answer about whether the light is God, or more precisely, "What is the '
light'"....
The light is simply the absence of 'stuff'.... it is not any 'thing'..... thingness would detract greatly from my imagined (and very occasionally glimpsed), and very poorly understood experience of the 'light'.
In my understanding, stuff includes physical objects and concepts, all objects of knowledge... 'beyond words, thoughts and conceptions'. In my opinion 'God' is not enough to explain the experience of the 'light'.
Also I suspect that the light is not 'light' as we understand light. It does not illuminate objects per se as ordinary light does. We use the word light because it is the ideal analogy....the experience has the power not to reveal 'stuff', but to un-reveal stuff... to dismantle our layers of reality until we can eventually experience the centre of the onion, so to speak.
The light that I am speaking of is called 'clear light' and is a quite common experience of human beings in general, it is not a Buddhist belief or experience.
It is basically a very blissful wisdom moment (experience)... ....or for some very lucky beings, it is where they live.
All I intended to say was ... 'the absence of stuff'... I got carried away... sorry.
daka
If you don't become the ocean you will be seasick every day....Jikan (aka Leonard Cohen)
It's comin' from the feel that this ain't exactly real, or it's real, but it ain't exactly there! . Jikan