Why Do I Talk About Belief So Much?

To engage in anything, we first have to trust or believe that the information may be correct. If we merely go through the routine of belief, we just repeat the information. I’ve spent fifty or so years in ‘spiritual’ practices, and they all depended on belief – I didn’t actually know. Why not? I had become dependent on the teacher, and assumed that I didn’t know enough, so kept going back. The truth is in the Buddha’s words, “Do not take my word for the truth; test it for yourself.” So I did just that, and no longer have to believe!

We all become dependent on the figure-head, and the figure-head encourages the dependency. I’m saying this because I’ve never met anyone with enough empathy or confidence to talk to about belief and actual knowingness. They were all adherents to words and rituals.

Beyond belief – any belief – is pure consciousness, which is exactly what we are. Why would we believe anything when we know what we are? Anything ‘other’ is belief; an illusion.

It is here where we can truly define good and evil.
Why do we believe?

We choose to believe, or are led to believe something.
We don’t want to be the last to believe;
we want to be in the in-crowd,
the inner circle, the ones in the ‘know’.

It’s where the praise and glory is.
This happens in all walks of life.

Delay is the tool of evil because belief delays knowing. Why? Because we are intellectually lazy. We want to appear to know, and we learn all the ‘information’ without actually knowing. Information is flawed when it doesn’t get to the point immediately. Belief is superficial fluff, and it’s unreliable.

Once we know beyond words, we can immediately pick up when something doesn’t smell right. Belief isn’t the complete story, and therefore censorship is at play.

When we collude with a belief, we group-lie, and stand on thin air. This is the death of evidence-based spirituality. The evidence is in actual seeing without bias or comment – just pure consciousness. When pure consciousness is experienced and realised, there are no doubts.

The evidence is here now, but we take no notice/ignore, and continue to chant gossip and bang our drum (louder gossip).

Belief is the first law of ignorance; the belief in an I.
It’s not what we are.