Some people have reasons to believe in something. There must be people who have more reasons not to believe, and to not believe, in whatsoever.
Make an island of yourself,
make yourself your refuge;
there is no other refuge.
Make truth your island,
make truth your refuge;
there is no other refuge.
Digha Nikaya, 16
Truth varies according to perceptions and is multi-dimensional. We should not blindly follow, blindly perceive what is true and take that as refuge.
Do not pursue the past.
Do not lose yourself in the future.
The past no longer is.
The future has not yet come.
Looking deeply at life as it is.
In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and
freedom.
We must be diligent today.
To wait until tomorrow is too late.
Death comes unexpectedly.
How can we bargain with it?
The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night
and day,
'one who knows the better way to live alone.'
Bhaddekaratta Sutta
How can we bargain with it? One can only remind oneself again and again, be careful, be grateful, be considerate.
Quotes are only quotes, they should be used to trigger thinking, not concluding. Unfortunately, sometimes there exist prerequisites that are often hard to reconciled.
"What are you then?"
"I am awake."
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Due to past experience, I really find misinformation horrible. Horribly horrible. Due to the 'trust' that you put on someone or something, it basically eliminates the thought process that allows you to doubt. Things rather go "unsure...but...o well." In the end when the 'truth' was found out, was like hoooooow caaaaaan it beeee --------- then felt like a fool.
I have to prevent that. Eeee.
