04-26-2012, 12:00 AM
I've written tons on the subject of belief vs. knowledge, but in a nutshell, the difference is simplyt his:
Belief: anything accepted on faith or hearsay. Example: We BELIEVE the sun will rise tomorrow morning, but we do not possess absolute KNOWLEDGE that it will.
Knowledge: Something we experience directly, personally, through experience. Example: I know the assemblage point of the mushroom ally because I've "been there". To anyone who has NOT had the direct experience, it is only a tale of power or, simply put, a belief.
I see a lot of people on this forum (and in life in general) acting as if they KNOW things, when the reality is that they only believe what they have read in books.
So much of what we believe is nothing more than yada programming put onto us from an early age - but we beliee it because it is part of the operating system (aka the foreign installation), so the only way to STOP believing something is to examine WHY we believe it, and from there, determine if it is relevant to our lives in any way, or if it is only part of the program, installed for the benefit of the program itself.
Belief is faith.
Knowledge is experience.
The rest is illusion.
QS
Belief: anything accepted on faith or hearsay. Example: We BELIEVE the sun will rise tomorrow morning, but we do not possess absolute KNOWLEDGE that it will.
Knowledge: Something we experience directly, personally, through experience. Example: I know the assemblage point of the mushroom ally because I've "been there". To anyone who has NOT had the direct experience, it is only a tale of power or, simply put, a belief.
I see a lot of people on this forum (and in life in general) acting as if they KNOW things, when the reality is that they only believe what they have read in books.
So much of what we believe is nothing more than yada programming put onto us from an early age - but we beliee it because it is part of the operating system (aka the foreign installation), so the only way to STOP believing something is to examine WHY we believe it, and from there, determine if it is relevant to our lives in any way, or if it is only part of the program, installed for the benefit of the program itself.
Belief is faith.
Knowledge is experience.
The rest is illusion.
QS