Post Aaeb3PgdrFC7QktVSK by rlaimondas@venera.social
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 (DIR) Post #AadplGrxCt1X1d25OS by trom@social.trom.tf
       2023-10-10T22:52:03Z
       
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       We are all humans. Atoms that make cells, cells that make us. We are not israelies, palestinians, americans, jews, arabs, europeans....we are HUMANS. And we have more than enough resources to share and live in a paradise on a beautiful and complex planet.What a shame that the same brains who can understand how the universe works and the complexity that we have discovered so far, can be imprisoned by nonsense ideas and beliefs, and then kill each other because of these.Shame!#tromlive
       
 (DIR) Post #Aaeb3PgdrFC7QktVSK by rlaimondas@venera.social
       2023-10-11T07:41:53Z
       
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       Meeting life anewOne of the things, it seems to me, that most of us eagerly accept and take for granted isthe question of beliefs. I am not attacking beliefs. What we are trying to do is to find outwhy we accept beliefs; and if we can understand the motives, the causation of acceptance,then perhaps we may be able not only to understand why we do it, but also be free of it.One can see how political and religious beliefs, national and various other types ofbeliefs, do separate people, do create conflict, confusion, and antagonism which is anobvious fact; and yet we are unwilling to give them up. There is the Hindu belief, theChristian belief, the Buddhist innumerable sectarian and national beliefs, various politicalideologies, all contending with one other, trying to convert one other. One can see,obviously, that belief is separating people, creating intolerance; is it possible to livewithout belief? One can find that out only if one can study oneself in relationship to abelief. Is it possible to live in this world without a belief not change beliefs, not substituteone belief for another, but be entirely free from all beliefs, so that one meets life aneweach minute? This, after all, is the truth: to have the capacity of meeting everything anew,from moment to moment, without the conditioning reaction of the past, so that there isnot the cumulative effect which acts as a barrier between oneself and that which is.