Emptiness and Objects

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Asiris wrote:Faith is a higher experience, it is trust in the goodness of the Divine Power, God.  It is altogether reasonable and logical yet it transcends that of the mere mental realm.  The soul is not a mental formation, it is an actual universal reality, on the level of spirit.  Buddhism mostly is a godless philosophy, it has immense value and has done a lot of good but being a godless philosophy it can only take you so far, it is severely limited imo. 
In Buddhism there is the faith in The Three Jewels: The Buddha, Dharma,
and the Sangra. Within these faiths is the logic supporting the value of
such faith.



Faith in Buddha because we don't see him walking around, so there is
faith in his having lived in some way. Faith in Dharma because if we
doubt its effectiveness, we won't even try to follow the teachings.
Faith in Sangra, a person who directly realizes emptiness, if we do not
have faith a person can attain this, we won't see ourselves as having
the same potential.



But religious faith to me is another thing, dependent arising has made
it so evident there is no creator, how can there be? But you still speak
of this faith, so I would call it a faith removed of logic so much so
that a logic placed before the faithful does not move them in any way.