So, what you’re basically saying is that belief shapes the reality we experience. I think this ties strongly into the whole concept of life as a game.

Our beliefs are just the rules we invent for the game, so depending what beliefs we choose to hold, we are able to create fun, joy, suffering, love…

Very much so. If we could see that the world is not so much a matter of ‘it’ happening to ‘us’, but rather an experience of ‘us’ happening to ‘it’ (this certainly doesn’t define the relationship, but it puts a new twist on our usual idea of how the world works), we’d have a very different experience of life.

Fondly,
Kenton

As you’ve surely noticed, this site appears to cover many subjects, but really only covers one, approaching it from different angles. Often, a given approach simply won’t ’speak’ to a reader. At other times, approaches which don’t seem to make sense to us, or seem ‘incomplete’ in some way, are the approaches which carry the most potential for personal transformation.

Whichever the case in this situation, I thank you for spurring the idea for this article in the first place, and I do intend to follow this up with a ‘meaning of the universe’ type of article, covering the reason for human existence. I have an inkling, however, that you might not be satisfied with the message in that article, either. We’ll have to see how it unfolds . . .

Hugs,

Kenton

Thanks for the enlightened perspective on the subject of belief. It is my struggle to release myself from attachments which hinder my ability to let it all go and dwell in pure awareness. It seems that the most simple thing in the world, namely to just be, is the most difficult. It is always good to read your blog and get a dose of remembrance to get out of the fog of being absorbed by this world.

Indeed, just as you say — so simple and yet so difficult. There’s the puzzle for us . . .

I’m so happy that these writings bring clarity =)

Sweetwater,

Kenton

Lovely post, particulary the sentence:

“Belief is created when we impose our conditioned thinking upon our pure awareness.

that was just pure gold for me.. thanx

A little reply or comment to sof theo, I once read or heard a statement said by the buddha or a monk, i can’t remember exactly where or who said it. But anyway the message was in-line with your “big questions”.

Someone ask the same question as you did now, the reason for existance, where did we come from, what is our purpose and where are we going.

The reply was, “When you are hit by an arrow, do you first stop to find out who ’shot’ it at you, if it was a Male/female, how old they are, how far away were they standing, what material is the arrow made of, what shape is it, etc etc. OR do you realise that you suffering and remove the arrow…. in the same sence is it not wise to deal with our current situation, realise that we are ’suffering’, and find a means to end it? and finding our way out of this cyclic-exsitance?”

Anyway just my thoughts, hope i said correctly, and you get the gist of what i’m trying to say.

Namaste

Bedford

I’m glad that sentence makes sense to you. I feel it’s an important point to remember.

I have heard the story you mention, though I can’t place it, either. It seems we often have a strong urge to ask these sorts of questions (questions regarding ‘meaningless’ details), and yet, sometimes these details are so consuming to us that it pays to turn our awareness upon them. I hope (I think you deduced my aim from this article) that I can answer the concerns of those details and at the same time help us realize that those details are all much the same — details of a belief system which doesn’t really do us any service.

Thanks for bringing your voice here =)

Sweetwater,
Kenton