Guest guest Posted January 14, 2006 Report Share Posted January 14, 2006 In a message dated 1/14/2006 3:49:45 AM Pacific Standard Time, silver-1069 writes: > Task: Find out how you got to believing all the things you believe > in, including your belief that you have existence or not. > > " Silver " L.E: I've given some thought to the issue of, " what is a belief, " and I'll share a bit with you. A belief is a connection between an idea and a feeling. It must have both together to be a belief. The idea part goes from provable to unprovable, and the feeling part goes from strong to weak. In this structure, all beliefs can be described. If the belief is provable, then prove it. If it is not, I'd suggest eliminating it, stop dealing with it, let it subside, go away, get rid of it etc. People and you are just tormenting yourself with unprovable beliefs. What a relief to just stop doing that. Let the mind, your mind, you, just relax back into its natural untroubled state of calm openess where everything is Whole and unbroken. Will you do that? Can you do that? Or is your life more exciting and interesting with its inner drama and torments? Larry Epston www.epston.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 Nisargadatta , epston@a... wrote: > > In a message dated 1/14/2006 3:49:45 AM Pacific Standard Time, > silver-1069@h... writes: > > > Task: Find out how you got to believing all the things you believe > > in, including your belief that you have existence or not. > > > > " Silver " > > L.E: I've given some thought to the issue of, " what is a belief, " and I'll > share a bit with you. > A belief is a connection between an idea and a feeling. It must have both > together to be a belief. The idea part goes from provable to unprovable, and > the feeling part goes from strong to weak. In this structure, all beliefs can > be described. If the belief is provable, then prove it. If it is not, I'd > suggest eliminating it, stop dealing with it, let it subside, go away, get rid > of it etc. > People and you are just tormenting yourself with unprovable beliefs. What a > relief to just stop doing that. Let the mind, your mind, you, just relax back > into its natural untroubled state of calm openess where everything is Whole > and unbroken. Will you do that? Can you do that? Or is your life more > exciting and interesting with its inner drama and torments? > > Larry Epston > www.epston.com Tormenting myself? Not quite. My goodness, Larry! You have a flair for the melodramatic. " Silver " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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