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10.7
Don't believe UCA
 
  It is time to be blunt. For if we do not understand the message of UCA then we will struggle and miss the understandings of the following chapters of ME. Please take the following statement to heart:  
10.7.1 Don't believe UCA- none of it is true  
  There is no point believing anything you have read in UCA or ME so far. The word "beliefî" we have seen is redundant, so is the word true.  
  UCA does not meet the criteria set out by these words. That does not mean it is all false. It simply means there is no point putting ideas of UCA up against others ideas as a means of measure, nor is it worthwhile holding these ideas as certainty. Nothing is certain.  
  As we will discuss and see- a fundamental change in perspective is required to feel comfortable with uncertainty and change- to be free of dogma- to be free of the barriers of belief and superstition.  
10.7.2 Beliefs and knowledge are intimately linked to desire.  
  Can the mind be free from the craving for security? That is the problem- now what to believe and how much to believe. These are merely expressions of the inward craving to be secure psychologically , toe be certain about something, when everything is so uncertain in the world.  
10.7.3 Beliefs separate people  
  Religious, national and various other types of beliefs separate people. There is the Hindu belief, the Christian belief, the Buddhist , various political ideologies, all contending with each other, trying to convert each other.  
  One can see that belief is separating people, creating intolerance. is it impossible to live without belief.  
10.7.4 Accepting beliefs because of fear  
  One of the reasons for the desire to accept beliefs is fear. If we had no belief, what would happen to us? Shouldn't we be very frightened of what might happen?  
  The fear of being nothing, of being empty? After all, a cup is only really useful when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind; it is merely a repetitive mind. To escape from that fear- the fear of emptiness, that fear of loneliness, that fear of stagnation of not arriving, not succeeding, not achieving, not being something, not becoming something- is surely one of the reasons why we pursue to acquire beliefs.  
  A belief, religious or political, hinders the understanding of ourselves. It acts as a screen through which we are looking at ourselves.  
10.7.5 Belief binds, belief isolates.  
  Do beliefs provide security and then clarity. Security by definition is in conflict to the ever changing motion of the universe.  
  We want to be secure and therefore need the aid of our estates, our property and our family. We want to be secure inwardly and also spiritually by erecting walls of beliefs, which are an indication of this craving to be certain.  
  Can you as an individual be free from this urge this craving to be secure, which expresses itself in the desire to believe in something?  
  Have you ever notices that most of us want some kind of psychological safety. We want security, somebody on whom to lean. As a small child holds ont to the mothers hand, so we want something to cling to; we want somebody to love us. Without a sense of security, without a mental safeguard we feel lost, do we not? We are used to leaning on others to guide and help us, and without this support we feel confused, afraid, we do not know what to think, how to act. The moment we are left to ourselves, we feel lonely, insecure, uncertain. From this arises fear.  
  we also seek security and comfort in ideas. have you observed how ideas come into being and how the mind clings to them? You have an idea of something beautiful.  
  Do you know what it means to seek permanency? it means wanting the pleasurable to continue indefinitely and wanting that which is not pleasurable to end as quickly as possible.  
  We want the name that we bear to be known and to continue through family, through property. We want a sense of permanency in our relationships, in our activities, which means that we are seeking a lasting, continuous life in the stagnant pool; we don't want any real changes there, so we have built a society which guarantees us the permanency of property, of name, of fame.  
  But you see, life is not like that at all; life is not permanent. Like the leaves that fall from a tree, all things are impermanent, nothing endures; there is always change and death. have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, how beautiful it is?  
  All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness there is a poem, there is a song. Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring. When the spring comes.  
     
 
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