Inversion Factor: Belief (is Death)
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2019 2:22 pm
As per (un)popular request: an explanation as to how "belief"
relates to the mythical tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Let:
0° = absence of any/all belief-based ignorance(s) causing suffering/death viz. √-A (Tree of Living)
-180° = presence of any/all belief-based ignorance(s) causing suffering/death viz. √+A (Tree of Knowledge)
These two roots can be expressed as a dot-in-circle diagram:
In any possible worst-case scenario, a believer is liable to believe
the opposite of what is true (ie. amounting to: evil is good / satan is god).
For example, it takes a believer to believe:
themselves superior to others (all supremacists are thus "believers")
war is peace ("if only people x didn't exist" justification endorsed by "believers" justifying war/genocide)
infidelity is fidelity (religious idols justifying the sexual degeneracy of "believers" in that it has "god's seal of approval")
abuse is mercy ("believing" men religiously abuse women "believing" it is a "mercy")
one's own internal 'state' is due to another (to "believe" someone else is accountable for one's own internal state of being)
etc.
Belief is thus not knowledge: it is the absence of knowledge.
Knowledge is thus not belief: it is the absence of belief.
All knowing is by way of consciously trying/testing/falsifying all (false) belief(s).
That is about as close to a "secularized" way of 'Truth/Way/Life' as it gets, as
contrary to what Christians "believe", such is not an idol-man, rather: a method.
It can be used to transmute belief into knowledge ad infinitum, the only barrier being:
the being.
"Belief is death, actually." @ 5:50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwUd9gHusc0
Not my own words: the words of Sadhguru which I echo thus: belief is certainly death.
relates to the mythical tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Let:
0° = absence of any/all belief-based ignorance(s) causing suffering/death viz. √-A (Tree of Living)
-180° = presence of any/all belief-based ignorance(s) causing suffering/death viz. √+A (Tree of Knowledge)
These two roots can be expressed as a dot-in-circle diagram:
In any possible worst-case scenario, a believer is liable to believe
the opposite of what is true (ie. amounting to: evil is good / satan is god).
For example, it takes a believer to believe:
themselves superior to others (all supremacists are thus "believers")
war is peace ("if only people x didn't exist" justification endorsed by "believers" justifying war/genocide)
infidelity is fidelity (religious idols justifying the sexual degeneracy of "believers" in that it has "god's seal of approval")
abuse is mercy ("believing" men religiously abuse women "believing" it is a "mercy")
one's own internal 'state' is due to another (to "believe" someone else is accountable for one's own internal state of being)
etc.
Belief is thus not knowledge: it is the absence of knowledge.
Knowledge is thus not belief: it is the absence of belief.
All knowing is by way of consciously trying/testing/falsifying all (false) belief(s).
That is about as close to a "secularized" way of 'Truth/Way/Life' as it gets, as
contrary to what Christians "believe", such is not an idol-man, rather: a method.
It can be used to transmute belief into knowledge ad infinitum, the only barrier being:
the being.
"Belief is death, actually." @ 5:50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwUd9gHusc0
Not my own words: the words of Sadhguru which I echo thus: belief is certainly death.