Steve] > > As an illustration of faith as a lack of certainty, consider the > following old zen story as told in Alan Watts' book "Tao: The > Watercourse Way." (I heard it most recently in the movie "Charlie > Wilson's War." ) > > John]
Certainty is another key indicator of the difference between Hope and Faith. I'll say I hope when I lack certainty - I HOPE I pass this test, because I didn't study much or didn't understand the subject and I lack certainty. I'll say I have FAITH I'll pass this test when I think I do know the subject and I did study. The fact of life's ups AND downs IS certain... but then everything I learned about metaphysics, I learned on a roller coaster. > The yin-yang view of the world is serenely cyclic. Fortune and > misfortune, life and death, whether on small scale or vast, come and > go everlastingly without beginning or end, and the whole system is > protected from monotony by the fact that, in just the same way, > remembering alternates with forgetting. This is the Good of > good-and-bad. " > > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
