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Here at 43 years old, with my Master’s Degree and around twenty-years of travel and work experiences behind me - I believe that I can accurately tell you something about faith. In short, faith is something that belongs to the realm of religion. Faith means “believing” in something. If you look into the word “believe” there is the word “lie”. Ironic isn’t it? Yes it is. In fact, the entire purpose of this blog is to help you transcend your own mind so that you can experience the Absolute directly. You do not need priests, pastors, rabbis, or any kind of religious “masters”. Quite the contrary. All you need to do is avail yourself to the practice of meditation - and in a short amount of time, you will experience, just as I have, the immanent sound of the Universe - which is “OM”. Therefore, there is no need to believe in OM. Do you need to believe in water or sunlight - of course not, they are direct experiences. And so is OM.

So, to make a long lecture or sermon short here, faith is something that is the “legacy” of religious belief and the efforts of the clergy to propagate a story or myth. Unfortunately, religious “myths” have caused humanity untold amounts of strife, difference and suffering, so as far as I am concerned, we need to start moving away from “faith” and into something that we can all deem as a common experience, hence a new way of seeing how we are all similar and connected.

I came down hard on Leo of Zen Habits Dot Net yesterday because he said in the title of his post that absolutely nothing is wrong with the world. Let me say this - there are indeed many things wrong from the perspective of perception - and this is what causes us pain and sorrow. When we can correct our perspective yes life is beautiful and phenomenal. For us not to admit that there is suffering in the world and that there are no problems is to proverbially stick our heads in the sand, like the “dodo” bird does (I think that is how you spell it, correct me if I am wrong).

Faith has helped humanity, at the same time has caused us lots of pain and hardship. Meditation is the way beyond faith and belief and experiencing the Absolute directly with no intermediary people or control figures. It is just you and the Absolute, perfectly one.

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