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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"dailyquotes",<br>"author":"samstonehill",<br>"permlink":"krishnamurti-of-the-day-belief-hinders-true-understanding",<br>"title":"Krishnamurti of the day - Belief Hinders True Understanding",<br>"body":"If we had no belief,<br> what would happen to us? Shouldn't we be very frightened of what might happen? If we had no pattern of action,<br> based on a belief -either in God,<br> or in communism,<br> or in socialism,<br> or in imperialism,<br> or in some kind of religious formula,<br> some dogma in which we are conditioned -we should feel utterly lost,<br> shouldn't we? And is not this acceptance of a belief the covering up of that fear- the fear of being really nothing,<br> of being empty? After all,<br> a cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs,<br> with dogmas,<br> with assertions,<br> with quotations,<br> is really an uncreative mind; it is merely a repetitive mind. To escape from that fear - that fear of emptiness,<br> that fear of loneliness,<br> that fear of stagnation,<br> of not arriving,<br> not succeeding,<br> not achieving,<br> not being something,<br> not becoming something - is surely one of the reasons,<br> is it not,<br> why we accept beliefs so eagerly and greedily? And,<br> through acceptance of belief,<br> do we understand ourselves? On the contrary. A belief,<br> religious or political,<br> obviously hinders the understanding of ourselves. It acts as a screen through which we look at ourselves. And can we look at ourselves without beliefs? If we remove these beliefs,<br> the many beliefs that one has,<br> is there anything left to look at? If we have no beliefs with which the mind has identified itself,<br> then the mind,<br> without identification,<br> is capable of looking at itself as it is - and then,<br> surely there is the beginning of the understand of oneself. \n\n--- Krishnamurti,<br> The Book of Life\n\n![amed.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQme2JmRCyRFgaL7Gu2mztuoRLtqitN2xG8dDrqFq6gvndz\/amed.jpg)\nMount Agung at sunset,<br> viewed from Amed,<br> Bali 2016",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"dailyquotes\",<br>\"spirituality\",<br>\"writing\",<br>\"photography\",<br>\"life\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQme2JmRCyRFgaL7Gu2mztuoRLtqitN2xG8dDrqFq6gvndz\/amed.jpg\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " | | vote | "voter":"samstonehill",
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