God hears our praise: this means that, through praise, the heart of the practitioner harmonises with the divine, with the real, with the Logos,
And the disciple penetrates the divine heart.
The sincere praise that emanates from the disciple is in itself heard by God.
The sincerity of praise is harmonisation with God
When the disciple ceases to be caught up in the ten thousand phenomena, he dwells his true nature,
This is what happens between praise and listening to God.
God waits infinitely.

This outlook strikes me as very much rooted in monotheistic tradition.
Maybe I am being unjust.
But, I find myself wondering what use a deity has for praise – and why that same deity should escape some hard cross examination.
After all, if the divine is within all – within us – we have every right to question ourselves…
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« Deeply rooted in monotheism, »
this, to me, means full speed non-dualism.
God, as long as this word has not been stripped off its layers of projections, is not what I mean…
and then, What I mean still needs to be stripped of extra layers of projections.
until I don’t mean anything anymore.
silence.
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Monotheistic, transcendent belief systems are highly dualistic. No one devil without the one god…
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This is true from a theological perspective.
Silent practice teaches otherwise;
Mono-One -Unique-Immaculate-Pure-United
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Panentheism?
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I ll look that up.
But it doesn’t sound like a reassuring diagnosis..
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This deals with pantheism and panentheism:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/pantheism
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