Belief is very powerful. We can choose to believe whatever we want, at any time, despite the evidence to the contrary that is demonstrable in reality.
Knowing what a word means gives us power to use it properly. We can be masters of a name and be "magicians" in reality to create or alter our own lives and the lives of others simply with the power of consciousness and word-magic.
That might sound like nonsense, and if you take it literally, indeed it is. Symbolism is powerful, and to understand those words symbolically and what they reference, you will need to read those links ;)
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2017-02-24, 6pm
Best video on philosophy I've heard in a while! I love videos like this, I just crank the volume and get some household work done
Great job @krnel
LMAO! HAHA love it that you love it! Thanks for the feedback :D
I don't think that we can arbitrarily choose what we want to believe at any time. We believe things for a reason. That reason may or may not be rational and what we believe may or may not be true but there is a reason we believe it beyond a simple choice.
Indeed. Despite a "reason", we can still believe what we want to despite evidence to the contrary though. ;)
https://steemit.com/psychology/@krnel/how-emotions-manipulate-people-into-accepting-information
Thanks for the feedback.
We can change what we believe.
There are specific mental/spiritual excersizes to so.
One example is changing yourself form a negative down person to a positive up person.
When in the mindset of a negative person, you feel that everything is against you and from your viewpoint, everything is. Then you listen to a thousand hours of Anthony Robbins along with noticing your thoughts and emotions each day, and nudge them towards more positivity. At the end of this process, you will find yourself with a positive outlook and so many thing go right for you.
Changing your beliefs, as you say, is not a simple choice, but it is a choice.
Yes I agree fully with this! :-) I love this topic.
I think to pursue a belief is a choice. I'm not sure that arriving at a belief is a choice though. Certainly, your choices potentially affect your beliefs.
It is a choice. It always is a choice. However, you may be unaware that you made the choice, or even aware that there was a choice to be made.
A lot of buddhist meditation work is really going deep within to find the choices you have made that have created your belief structure.
So, as with psychology, half of the recovery is knowing you have a problem.
But, I get where you are coming from. Most of those choices that resulted in our belief structure seem natural, or so ingrained they are called human nature. The often seem like that is the only way it could ever be.
Here is one to blow your mind. Being affected by gravity is a belief. We believe that what goes up must come down. But, you can change that belief. (there are many who have.)
Maybe YOU can change that belief. Try it and let me know how it works. ;)
False or correct in my belief i tend to make what I believe come true, I know this to be true because I have experienced it. Lolol
Yes, but can you get someone else to experience it in such a way that they will agree with you?
If you can't, then a testimonial alone won't be enough to convince a person of your belief.
That's true, but many people may not be able to follow the practice or the formula is incredibly difficult to work, like in religion or math, so what ever is being validated is untrue because it can't be proven or you can only experience it yourself and trying to explain your findings to another is like trying to explain the color yellow to a blind person.
Freedom from suffering in Buddhism, you must let go of all your beliefs. All those beliefs are just labels you define yourself as me and mine. What we see is the label, not the can of beans attached to the label, or the beans contained within the can.
I guess that's where faith comes in....a great person of incredible stature says this is true, he behaves as if he has won freedom from suffering or wrote the unifying theory of relativity, so I have faith that I do what he says or his formula is correct because I can't prove or disprove it, I too will win freedom or believe in incredible things said to be true from a complex theory.
But if my belief is based on blind faith, I may get involved with an asshole of a teacher that is just looking for fame, political power, money, and followers. I was told it takes 12 years of investigation by a student and teacher before they can correctly believe the student is worthy and the teacher knows what he/she is talking about.
A believe, is a thought that you keep thinking :-)