In the interest of laying a groundwork for smoother conversations, I’ve been searching for a way to present an albeit slight COMMONALITY that the East and West have re. the definition of “God”: this COMMONALITY is “Self”.

SG => Self=God
SB => Self=Beyond

SG: God is All that there is. Beyond God there is nothing. Not a single thing whatsoever can be found beyond God.

SB: Absolutely right sg: there is nothing beyond. It is exactly this NOTHING that we esteem and worship as the only real Self that there is.

Robin: Two things are most undesirable at this juncture:
(1) Pitting SB and SG against each other.
(2) Merging SB and SG in any way.
DrRobinStarbuck