Friend: Maybe he’s watching you and thinking you’re raising the bar.
Man: Maybe. With God, you never can tell.
Friend: Sure you can. Just tell yourself God’s a good guy.
Man: Yah.
It can be hard to tell what are godly standards of goodness because some are believed to have strong pride and unforgiving wrath – if they are real. (How can the good be proud, jealous, angry…?) If we can raise the bar in terms of moral conduct, above godly standards, does it make us better than the gods? Yes – why not? In Buddhism, all gods were ex-humans once, who raised the bar of goodness higher than that of most humans, which is how they became born as gods, including one who mistaken himself to have created the world. The Buddhas, however, have done so much good with so much wisdom for the sake of so many beings, that they raised the bar of perfectly selfless compassion all the way up to the highest possible.
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