Posted by: Dhammañāṇa
« on: January 26, 2020, 03:32:24 PM »For one who perceives, sees, has done the task, there is no base to blind faith. For one who doesn't perceives, doesn't see, hasn't done the task it will stay always faith to go on and do the task first. No way aside that but a 100% coming back quarantine if it doesn't work. So just doubts could be lost. It's on the other side very reasonable that for one giving, letting go, that he becomes lighter and able to progress, sure, it's like a rock:
Carrying a Rock
"Letting go" actually means this: It's as if we're carrying a heavy rock. As we carry it, we feel weighed down but we don't know what to do with it, so we keep on carrying it. As soon as someone tells us to throw it away, we think, "Eh? If I throw it away, I won't have anything left." So we keep on carrying it. We aren't willing to throw it away.
Even if someone tells us, "Come on. Throw it away. It'll be good like this, and you'll benefit like that," we're still not willing to throw it away because we're afraid we won't have anything left. So we keep on carrying it until we're so thoroughly weak and tired that we can't carry it anymore. That's when we let it go.
Only when we let it go do we understand letting go. We feel at ease. And we can sense within ourselves how heavy it felt to carry the rock. But while we were carrying it, we didn't know at all how useful letting go could be.
For 1st 2 paragraphs, thanks for reminding me and retracking me.
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