Our Beliefs: How they arise and their relation to Truth.
We gratefully acknowledge Elisabeth's suggestion as noted below:
"Do not believe anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." -- Buddha
We could use it to discuss "belief" as it applies to our practice, which is a little different from the discovery of [our] world and giving our heart to it.
Further food for thought on the subject can be found at http://www.quietepiphany.blogspot.com/
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