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Beautifully written! I like the way you gently approach and explore this topic. Questioning one's beliefs, and even the idea of questioning one's beliefs, can seem like dissenting, disloyal, heretical territory - reasoning your way into dangerous spiritual realms. And yet, don't we all have a great amount of emotional and mental grasping of our beliefs? We hold them up as the ultimate truth without realizing that our positions actually lead us to a banquet of inner and outer dis-eases. There are certainly basic truths: everyone gets sick, everyone dies, everyone experiences ups-and-downs. Don't the rigid beliefs limit our abilities to connect to each other? Lead to judgement of each other and condemnation - refusal to support or care for one another?

In my experience, especially through insight meditation, I find that the more and more I release the emotional and mental tensions around MY beliefs and MY views about life and what is true, the wider the understanding and wisdom gets; it's as if the more angles of truth come into focus. Of course, practice and dedication are key to this and whenever I fall out of practice, those wider perspectives dry up; this is not an egotistical claim. Wider perspectives are not MINE, they just happen.

I believe the release of the emotional and mental tension around my beliefs and my view results in a natural by-product of ease. Your musings bring levity to difficult topic and encourage reflection! Well done. Please keep sharing!

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