Are You Sure That Your Beliefs Are Correct?
We all have thoughts, beliefs, opinions, and ideas about “the way things are” and all these beliefs are very real to us.
The thing is though, NONE of those mental concepts have any basis in actual reality! That is, we literally made them all up… and then forgot that we did so! In some cases, we may have heard something from another, felt that they had credibility, bought into their belief system, and thus incorporated their beliefs into our own belief system.
People tend to believe thoughts, especially the ones they feel are “mine.”
Nevertheless, we can reveal to ourselves that using thought is actually NOT a way to understand absolute truth.
The “How Do You Know” Method
Take a thought, belief, opinion, or idea that you hold to be true.
Now ask yourself, “How do I know absolutely for sure that this is true?”
Whatever answer the mind gives you, to it ask, “How do I know absolutely for sure that this is true?”
The mind will keep giving you back answers and every time it does, again ask yourself, “How do I know absolutely for sure that this is true?”
You must be willing to question every answer the mind gives you for this method to work.
If you keep asking this question, you’ll find that you eventually wind up at, “I don’t know absolutely for sure that this is true.”
It turns out each belief is supported by another belief which is supported by another belief which is ultimately supported by “I don’t know.”
Your beliefs are built upon nothing. They have no foundation at all!
Do this with a few hundred of your thoughts, beliefs, opinions, or ideas, and you’ll come to realize for yourself that thought is not a method for realizing absolute Truth whatsoever.
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I am confused by this.
I’m trying to understand, but if none of the beliefs i have are true and have no foundation at all… then what’s left… or whats true?
it can’t be nothingness, that im sure
I believe in God (the Father, the Creator, etc.) but i do so because of what i’ve been taught, and well i suppose i can feel Him whithin me and see His greatness in this amazing creation, the Universe.
However, “I don’t know absolutely for sure that this is true.”
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Yeah Yashua, the mind will still want to understand, but ultimately what you will find on “the other side” is not anything that can be understood by the mind. What this exercise will help you with is reaching beyond the mind entirely by clearly realizing the mind’s inability to recognize absolute truth.
As you’re finding, it’s not a comfortable feeling to the ego because this exercise contributes to ultimately dissolving the ego entirely.
What’s left when all beliefs fall away is the pure experience of ultimate reality. Spirituality is experiential, not a belief system.
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Not only is thought not a method for realizing absolute truth, it’s not a method for defining yourself. Whether you believe you’re awesome or you’re a piece of crap, they’re both equally unfounded and true only as long as you believe them. This means that you can be whatever you want, whenever you want, just by decision. After all that trying to figure out what caused this flaw in you and what caused that flaw in you and trying to heal yourself and all that… after all of that effort, it turns out everything is simply up to you to decide. =-o
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Great post. The sword is sharpened, eh?
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