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I Am a Deep Thinker

In the Kalama Sutra, Buddha says….

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it..
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in 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.
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This is all well and good. But what does one do when one's system of believing has been adulterated in such a way that survival is dependent upon belief, itself, regardless of its content, making irrelevant any agreement with it?
curiosi · 61-69, F
@PhoenixPhail Belief is mind chatter, it's what we do until we can turn off the mind and progress into knowing.
@curiosi Agreed. And beautifully stated. 👍️🤗