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Originally Posted by ketzer
If you have not already done so, perhaps you could focus on what faith itself is, is not, or what individuals believe it should be, when it should be, when (if?) it is necessary, when it is not, etc....
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Ah, this is a funky chestnut...
My opinion on faith/belief goes as follows.
The ineffable (re; consciousness, universal energy, etc.) must exist without quantitative measurement or reductive categorization. Then you have faith and belief.
Belief is when you have received or told yourself a "Truth" about the ineffable and have boxed out all other options without exploration.
Faith is when you accept the ineffable based on experience, and trust our puny human capacity is incapable of knowing more. The more is out there but does not require categorization or measurement. It is.
I remember Sadguru commenting the act of belief is a mini-death, eliminating any other options beyond the hyper-narrow belief. Literal acceptance of any religious text is belief; reading the meaning and context of the text and attempting to understand the nature of the teachings is an act of faith. Basically; it's opposite belief in our lovely dualistic world.
