The disaster is the belief of human knowledge.
Eyquem Michel de Montaigne
Why do we believe?
One of the causes of the desire to accept a belief, or new belief, is fear.
What would happen if we did not believe in anything? We should not fear what could happen? We would not be naked, helpless, unprepared? How could we resist those who have strong beliefs? The belief is perhaps a way to prepare for war, deprivation, the future, the unknown?
It 's true that every day come up with new ways, methods, to live well, better, better? It 's true that we believe in what we do, we learn every day, so we accumulate more and more beliefs? Which brain is crammed this continuous flow of material?.
We to have his head too full? Yet we continue to accumulate beliefs. Heatedly. We are hungry for news, curiosity, turns, as if our survival depended on it, our health, our happiness.
's so? Survival, welfare, happiness depends on the amount of information and beliefs?
What is mysterious is realized sooner or later.
What is not obvious.
Edward R. Murrow
If we did not believe in something, in every aspect of our lives, we would not feel lost, incapable, helpless? Accepting the belief is not just that, a way to assuage the fear? Fear of being nothing, poor, empty, alone, incapable, inadequate?
A cup is useful only when empty, then it may contain something. A mind already full of beliefs, dogmas, statements, experiences, is already full. There is nothing that has not already accepted. The cup is full and thrills to fill again.
The mind in this state is not creative, it is simply repetitive.
can not create their own peace, your peace, your joy of life, but only to repeat the stimuli it has stored, wearily. As you efforts idling, unsatisfied. Lack the creative ability, which is accompanied by peace and inner space and time; still the rage, exhaustion, attrition constant, sometimes softly, sometimes blatant.
escape the fear of emptiness, loneliness, stagnation of not coming, do not succeed, do not get, do not be or become, is it not the reason why we adhere to the beliefs with such enthusiasm, greed, hope or despair?
and accept new, multiple, beliefs, perhaps better understand ourselves? Or they hinder the understanding of ourselves?
The belief is the screen through which we look. But you can freely look this way, the truth?
If you remove those beliefs, many beliefs that each of us has, is something to watch?
If there's any belief with which the mind is the same person, the mind free of identifying can look at itself as it is. Recognize and acquire a first glimmer of truth, self-understanding. You will see herself naked, without the disguise of beliefs. You'll find out.
If you do not leave aside their beliefs, at least for a moment to look, can never be recognized for what it really is. Observe the dress, beliefs, but will not see itself. Most of humanity lives and dies in this way. Will never know. But knowledge is dangerous, the real body might not be what the dress designs.
The miracle is not walking on water
The miracle is to walk on the green earth and feel alive
Thich Nhat Hanh
The more intellectual is a person, more educated, "spiritual", the lower is its ability to understand. The most thoughtful, cautious, vigilant are those who believe more or less? Beliefs are opening or closing of the Spirit? Release or binding? Combine or isolate?
look everywhere, in politics, economics, the social world, religion. The abundance of beliefs what causes it? Certainty or illusion? Well-being or fatigue? Real wealth or poverty?
With the abundance of beliefs we seek self-assertion, beyond the point where we are now, of course. We will guide us, will support: more than beliefs, more successful, more possibilities, more strength, more awareness, more ourselves. We believe. And we always try new things to believe. Do not think, or believe in few things, suffocates us, makes us feel inadequate, why?
With the beliefs we claim. We speak of peace, success, achievements, unity, peace, prosperity, love. In reality beliefs are developed the greater the level of division. Each new belief implies exclusion, incompatibility with other. We can do is to exclude older beliefs, or re-scale, think, meditate, to fix the things and be able to work together in our little heads beliefs, old and new. An endless, endless, continuous maintenance activities. At least until you are so confused by giving up all belief! For fatigue, not by choice. There comes a point where it no longer believes in anything. And then we leave. As before.
He knew everything except how to live.
Jean Paul Sartre
You are right I left, you are to the social self-affirmation for me, you believe that problems should be dealt with in a way, I in another, you believe in an educational, cultural, religious, I in another, you think that war can be justified, not me, you think that the media tell lies, I say that half-truths, and you think that the statement is the most important thing, I think and sharing, you think in a way I in another. We are divided. We do not know who the end can not be right because we know life and the future, even if we have the belief to meet you. We belief to guess the future.
But thanks to the beliefs we can really do about the future, our lives, the way we want? Or is it just another illusion? And if it is illusion, we will overcome fear and deliver us from the belief useless, unnecessary, harmful, false? Or will, together with the awareness that in the end, yes, after all is illusion. Both will remain, kept alive by fear to discard it? E ' fear the real glue that holds together the illusion of illusion and awareness within of the same mind?
is not all that tiring? Or does not seem tiring because that is how we live?
And living as we do not know any better. We do not want to leave the mind, perhaps because we do not know what to have the mind and heart free. We do not know the fear of freedom, but we know the price to pay: be without beliefs, without illusions.
no illusions of humanity would perish of despair, or boredom.
Anatole France
But in all this, how does the mind, as this live jam beliefs?
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