Beliefs Options

I would just like to hear some people beliefs. Do you follow a major religion a minor one? Do you follow your own beliefs based off of other major/minor religion? Do you have a unique set of beliefs that you follow and live your life by?

I was writing down my beliefs to see what I truly believed and felt. I wanted to see if I related to any major/minor religion in some sense. So I thought I ask if any others have done such a thing (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif). I will list mine later when the list is complete.

beliefs are not just beliefs, they are anchors - anchors against straying far from your beliefs, anchors against doubt, and anchors against all change, for good or for bad - if you try to change yourself, and it doesn't work, it is because your beliefs are anchoring you, holding you back from your desired change


the question was what do you believe in, i.e., what are your beliefs - so with that in mind, here's a little test:


do you believe in some higher power controlling or cooordinating, beneficient or otherwise, regardless of where it lives or not or whatever?

do you blame yourself or others, perhaps including this higher whatever if you believe in it, when things around you don't go as you planned?

is it your job to control your environment, do you even plan things out beyond tomorrow, or are you just a reactive blob in an ocean of waving waves?

what gives you the right to change your mind about things, or determine your feelings about something or some event that you planned or not?

just because something is invisible, and society denies it exists, does that make it not real to you as you experience it?

so then, what do you really believe in?

is not the answer to all these questions logical, one thought following another logically like a train, or are they more like rocks skipping across a pond?


and just for the fun of it:

my beliefs:
i am simply because i am
i awoke once to find myself sitting there, and said ' oh look, here i am!'
i am incarnated onto this planet of illusions, into the illusion of a single life within illusions of single lives
there is no limitation of an i am, and no i am awakens to perfection, which is why we need learning
i am learning through experience within this incarnation, learning toward enlightenment
regardless whether it is good or bad or happy or sad, it is all just experience to the i am
if one remembers experience from a previous incarnation, then there is nothing new
comparisons to previous experiences mean no new experience is gained
despite all my previous experience, this i am is not yet ready to stop incarnating, not yet
as i have not yet achieved enlightenment, not yet
there is no time to the i am, so it could easily be forever

in other words, for the as-yet-unawakened:

i am an incarnated soul, seeing through the eyes of that soul, living in non-time gaining experience through incarnation
there is no original sin, or even karma, but how you live your lives determines the quality of the experiences gained from them
passing on the experience to others helps them to also find awakening

very buddist, very zen, very boring

This post has been edited by esoterica: May 21 2010, 06:44 AM