While traveling this week, I met a a person on the bus. He was narrating his experiences. Getting down, I was not sure if it had happened in reality. A sense of doubt was cast inside. To overcome this doubt, I had to cultivate belief...
Then I realized that Belief and Doubt where the same energy. If I focused on doubt, my belief gets reduced and if I focused on belief my doubt gets reduced. They are two ends of the same line.
In someway by giving attention to this energy, we are feeding the energy of doubt and belief.
This is a vicious circle, I realized and how does one come out of it....
The only outlet is Trust and love.. This energy has the capacity to pull me out of the vicious circle of doubt and belief.
How do I trust- Do I trust little by little? Do I love little by little? Or should it be unconditional trust and love...?
Unconditional trust and love towards people, objects and nature surrounding me is the only solution, I concluded.
Another question struck me, In today's world of skewed distribution of resources, will I get my minimal share to sustain my life and body?
Is not saving my life and my body my duty?
With these thoughts, I read a few books to see if there are any answers:
Trust and faith is not half. It is total.
Trust is not rationalization. One should not rationalize and then trust. Then it is nothing but belief, which is just a positive attitude towards anything. The opposite is the negative attitude towards anything, which is doubt.
By just being indifferent to belief and doubt, it is possible to develop trust and love...
If you love, you just exist in a loving way. Your being becomes a love phenomenon.
Having read this, I ask myself, is this possible.... I look at my neighbor's child... the child is full of love and trust. She unsuspectingly opening her mouth for whatever is fed. She has no idea if it is poison or food.
There is complete trust.
Which means, as a child I must have been the same way. As a child I must have had all this inside me. I was created with the right material to trust and to love unconditionally.
Somewhere during the process of my growing up, people around me, have given me knowledge and many lessons which has taken the innocence out of me. These lessons have given me a job, some skills to earn a living and money to fend for myself...
But these skills have taken away my innocence, my power to love unconditionally and trust....
Then I realized that Belief and Doubt where the same energy. If I focused on doubt, my belief gets reduced and if I focused on belief my doubt gets reduced. They are two ends of the same line.
In someway by giving attention to this energy, we are feeding the energy of doubt and belief.
This is a vicious circle, I realized and how does one come out of it....
The only outlet is Trust and love.. This energy has the capacity to pull me out of the vicious circle of doubt and belief.
How do I trust- Do I trust little by little? Do I love little by little? Or should it be unconditional trust and love...?
Unconditional trust and love towards people, objects and nature surrounding me is the only solution, I concluded.
Another question struck me, In today's world of skewed distribution of resources, will I get my minimal share to sustain my life and body?
Is not saving my life and my body my duty?
With these thoughts, I read a few books to see if there are any answers:
Trust and faith is not half. It is total.
Trust is not rationalization. One should not rationalize and then trust. Then it is nothing but belief, which is just a positive attitude towards anything. The opposite is the negative attitude towards anything, which is doubt.
By just being indifferent to belief and doubt, it is possible to develop trust and love...
If you love, you just exist in a loving way. Your being becomes a love phenomenon.
Having read this, I ask myself, is this possible.... I look at my neighbor's child... the child is full of love and trust. She unsuspectingly opening her mouth for whatever is fed. She has no idea if it is poison or food.
There is complete trust.
Which means, as a child I must have been the same way. As a child I must have had all this inside me. I was created with the right material to trust and to love unconditionally.
Somewhere during the process of my growing up, people around me, have given me knowledge and many lessons which has taken the innocence out of me. These lessons have given me a job, some skills to earn a living and money to fend for myself...
But these skills have taken away my innocence, my power to love unconditionally and trust....
I believe that love and trust are dependent on the bonding we share. As said, a child does open his/her mouth while being fed by their parents, but if you have noted, to receive anything from anyone else, he/she seeks permission from parents. So, love and trust are dependent on the bond that is shared between the people. And I believe it is not lost and it still exists in everyone.
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