UnbornTao

Really Simple Syndication. I'd like to add it to Feedly.

Thank you, fellow scholar. Contributions like this help humanity continue moving forward.

Didn't know that. David Bohm and Aldous Huxley were also acquaintances of Krishnamurti. Interesting.

Is he the one who chatted with J. Krishnamurti decades ago?

Oh, thanks for letting me know.

I think so.

Weren't you going to have a discussion with a streamer at some point?

And maybe one day, even humans.

@Leo Gura Doesn't the blog have a RSS feed?

Sigh. You should know Spanish by now

To build on your point, we might say that a belief is anything we think we know - of which we have no personal experience (which should make up most of our knowledge base.) While this distinction appears clear in theory, closer examination reveals that much of our so-called "experience" is intertwined with a great deal of conceptual thinking. If we directly knew something there would be no need for belief, so belief is an admission of ignorance. Belief is expected to fill, or at least cover up, this gap. Yet, ultimately, that remains a superficial effort, a pretense. Deep down we probably recognize the fact that this condition of not knowing cannot be altered by belief, no matter how fervently it is defended.

For entertainment.

There ain't no pill for enlightenment. That's the fantasy. Wrong Lisan al-Gaib

Definitely. Add to that the taken-for-granted nature of a certain domain of beliefs. Some of them are not just notions but rather show up as "reality" for us. The alleged certainty lies in not recognizing them as such. And not all of them are deliberately taken up. Still, what is a belief?

Ah shit, breaks my heart. Recently saw a video on Reddit of people saying goodbye to their dogs. Broke me in half. My doggy is ten. Time really flies, God.