[Dating Specialist]

Originally Posted by AndyMartin

Have you ever looked at a belief separate from yourself? Observed yourself holding that belief? Watched how your mind and emotions move around that belief? Ceased to identify with it? When you can do that, belief will become ephemeral and there is not struggle to change belief, only an open realm of possibilities that your awareness can pass through.

Our normal behavior is to make beliefs part of our identity, and since identity arises from ego, ego will protect those beliefs against any assault. That's why it requires very careful dismantling--like a house of cards--to change the egoic structures of belief. It is a slow and painstaking process to change even a small belief when it's a support in your ego.

It requires profound shift in what belief is that allows you shuffle through them like a deck of cards to be pulled from and discarded. Spend some time looking at your belief with a silent mind. When you judge or commentate, that is not observation and will not allow you to detach your identity from the belief. But anything you can observe is not you, so once you can observe your belief (and all it's attached baggage) as something separate, you will have the ability to use it or discard it. This is not an immediate process, but it's like a muscle--the more you exercise it, the more easily you can use it until all belief is just something that arises in your awareness.

Hey Andy, I like what you wrote. Good stuff!