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Old 11-21-2006, 03:34 PM   #4 (permalink)
Ginny
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Smile Belief ?

This is interesting--this idea of belief. I find that what helps me is to deny the idea of "belief" altogether. Maybe it's just semantics, but a belief, to me, is something that cannot be shaken--something in which you have a great deal of faith. For me, resisting belief consists of being open to everything--listening carefully and constantly adding to or changing what I feel to be something that works for me as I move about. Technically, if I "believe" something, that closes a door to other things that might debunk that belief. Perhaps not permanently, but there is that "moment to moment" thing. Heck, I'm open to believing that I'm not really typing this right now--that this coffee cup is really not here--and I'm open to what I perceive as the manifestation of what I "see" in those things as well. Eyes wide open. Would like to be more specific--give exercises toward this--but I think that maybe just an insinuation that there is no such thing as belief can help us ponder that and decide what we think about it--decide whether or not we "believe" it. I'm no expert at all, but I find that I have a lot of faith in questioning things that look or feel like belief. It seems to work for me, and it's fun, too.
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