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Belief
That which is believed, an accepted opinion.
Conviction of the truth or reality of a thing, based on insufficient grounds to afford positive knowledge. Confidence,
faith, trust. A Religious tenet or tenets. Oxford Dictionary
To believe means ‘fervently wish to be true’. The action
of believing is to emotionally imagine, or fervently wish, something to be real that is not actual – actual, as in
tangible, corporeal, material, definitive, present, obvious, evident, current, substantial, physical and palpable. A
belief is an assumption, a notion, a proposition, an idea that requires faith, trust or hope to sustain in the face of
doubt, uncertainty and lack of factual evidence. Whereas a fact is a fact, demonstratively evident to all that it is
actual and/or that it works.
Many beliefs are masqueraded as ‘truths’ or are merely
accepted as facts in lieu of any serious scrutiny, or are protected by the blatant and stubborn refusal to question the
facticity of that which is ‘dearly held’ to be true. Simply because everybody believes something to be true
doesn’t make it a fact. At some stage in history everybody believed the sun went around the earth and that the earth
was flat, but both notions, believed and accepted as ‘true’ at the time, have turned out to be mere beliefs.
Indeed, what is esteemed as ‘Ancient Wisdom’ is a
literal plethora of beliefs, ‘truths’, superstitions, myths, opinions, assumptions, theories and misconceptions that
require active scrutiny and intelligent investigation by anyone who sincerely wants to become free of the Human
Condition. After all, the very charter of the Human Condition is firmly based on, and rooted in, this same ‘Ancient
Wisdom’. It does take immense courage to stand on one’s own two feet, to stop believing what others tell you are
facts, ‘truths’ or the ‘Truth’ and start investigating for yourself – to ascertain and distinguish between
fact and belief.
A belief is an emotion-backed thought – made to appear
real or true only by ‘my’ emotional support for the belief, by ‘my’ passionate feelings, intuition and
imagination. As such, ‘I’ fervently wish many beliefs to be true, none more so than the belief in a metaphysical
world with its implied promise of an after-life for ‘me’.
It is no wonder that all sorts of meta-physical beliefs
permeate every corner of human thinking and wisdom, and that these beliefs are so passionately defended. People actually
kill each other and sacrifice their lives for their beliefs. People kill and die for their God and their Country. We are
instinctually programmed to sacrifice ourselves for what we perceive to be the ‘good’ of the particular tribe we are
in. One tribe’s God becomes another tribe’s Devil and, as such, horrendous religious wars, conflicts, persecutions,
repressions and tortures are fought over the spreading or defending of particular beliefs.
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Who ‘I’ think I am as
a social being is nothing more than the opinions, values and beliefs of others – my parents and those of my parent’s
generation, which in turn came from their parents, and so on and so-on, back into the dim dark ages of the cave-men and
cave-women. These very beliefs are what ‘I’ am made of – they form the very substance of ‘my’ social identity.
The reluctance, fear and stubborn refusal to question and investigate beliefs can be sheeted home to this crucial fact
– to question one’s beliefs is to question one’s very ‘self’. To replace a belief with a fact is to eliminate
a piece of one’s ‘self’.
The very act of believing
supports and sustains ‘my’ very existence for ‘I’ have no existence in actuality. ‘I’ am an impostor, an
alien, a usurper and an illusion. However, the effects of this psychological and psychic entity are very real in that it
results in feelings of sadness, loneliness and despair, not to mention anger, resentment and hate. Only by challenging
the very act of believing itself, can one actively dismantle and eliminate all of the beliefs that ‘I’ hold so
dearly. It needs a full-blooded commitment to eliminate belief and acknowledge fact in order to free oneself from malice
and sorrow.
The physical universe
simply is perfect, pristine, pure, infinite, and happening this very moment – it requires no belief, faith, hope or
trust that this is the case. Human beings have just been programmed into believing that this is not so. This programming
consists of the instincts of fear, aggression, nurture and desire that we are born with, overlaid with the beliefs we
have been indoctrinated with since birth – in total called the Human Condition. Further the advice of parents,
teachers, priests, gurus, philosophers – indeed all of the human Wisdom – is founded on the belief that you can’t
change Human Nature. Not only is life on earth a sick joke, but there is no cure possible – the Mother of all beliefs!
If one is to become
actually free of the Human Condition, in its entirety, then it is imperative to find out for oneself the facts, rather
than merely perpetuate believing, to sort out what is silly and what is sensible rather than merely accept what others
say is right or wrong, good or bad. Then, and only then, can one discover and sensately experience the fact of the
delight, ease, magic and perfection of the actual world.
Actual Freedom is not a belief, it is a
fact.
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