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Faith : Religion or Science?

Saturday, July 5th 2008 @ 9:09 AM post viewed 471 times

While attending one of the local Buddhist meditation workshops, the topic of teachings for the evening was "Faith". It wasn't something that I had contemplated before, and I quickly came to realise that many hear the word "faith" and automatically associate this with religion as I did.

This got me thinking more about the word and what it really means and that night I scribbled down my brief thoughts on it...

Faith is the vessel that allows us to seek knowledge, and reason towards understanding the truth about extra-ordinary things.

Ordinary things are those which we already know to be true.

So what I'm saying here is that everybody must have faith whether religious, atheist, scientist or otherwise.

Without faith we wouldn't take new ideas or information and seek to put those things into practice to show or prove to ourselves that these things are true, or more to the point we wouldn't even expect there to be any more that what there already is and no new ideas would even come into being. For example, a scientist has to have faith to develop new theories and then have faith in those theories in order to seek ways to prove them to be true.

The fact that we all grow and progress in life shows that we all have faith. It's not a spiritual or belief thing. It's just natural.

All Love, Giles

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Enrique Martin
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Enrique said on Monday, July 7th 2008 @ 11:56 AM:

Giles, nice to read you in this site :)

The way I see it: everything we learn, perceive or even imagine must fit in our belief system. Of course, there must be some mechanisms to make room for new things. One of them is a belief system crash... when we confront some undeniable evidende that tears some of our beliefs, but this happens very rarely. Faith is another such mechanism, that allows us to open a small door of opportunity in our belief system to let us conceive, perceive or assimilate new ideas. It doesn't change our beliefs by itself, but at least it allows us to perceive new realities that in turn can make this change happen.

Being "open minded" is in my view, having faith and trust that new ideas may have something of truth and allowing this door of opportunity to open.

All Love,

Enrique

Patrick Zeigler
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PatrickZ said on Monday, July 7th 2008 @ 12:39 PM:

Hi Giles,

Thanks for the blog!

Faith….. for me faith is when you have a feeling something is out there without really doubting it or letting your mind get in the way of what you feel in your heart to be true.

Faith typically comes with a direct experience of it, so it involves trusting what you feel to be true. Once you have the experience then Faith is no longer needed, because the faith shifts from believing to knowing.

This is one thing I really like about the class and the All-Love energy , one can have a direct experience and know rather than have to believe. The energy is the best teacher.

All Love

Patrick