Belief laid out on a Sword

Still on holidays in India - reading OSHO and thinking the following

a double edged sword
is always found Etched in
Religious beliefs

One shiny
polished edge
holds hope
trust and -
allowance of giving of one self
over to the
greater God

The same God
that remains
elusive
unfathomable
untouchable
ungraspable

the other
dirty
stained
tainted
edge
withstanding our
age old religious beliefs
holds
doubt

For -
within hope
lies
uncertainty of the
greatest truth of
that which cannot
be proved into our
material reality

So -
within our beliefs
we must become
friends with doubt
we must
lay with doubt
- alongside hope
we must
be happy with
never knowing for certain
never cementing the fictions
your belief systems actually
belong with the greater truth

Or
if this dissatisfies you
you could learn to sit
in silence
learning to
throw away meaning and
understand that in
this life where
we add meaning to
all
really
none of it matters
for the time we are here
is short and the
biggest teaching
should be to
unlearn
cultures
traditions
histories
language
consciousness

unlearn this reality
where hope and doubt
have no home
where you can once again be
free

Reviews

[wordman]

a great write,but life and religion is not the same
sin caused life to be so hard,we all suffer. your reward is heaven

[jacob erin-cilberto]

interesting theory i read here...at least to me...it is like we are held hostage by religion...it is a battle between belief and doubt, and it tears us apart...
but if we could unlearn all that we have learned, maybe go back to the womb and start over with no concepts at all, a totally clean slate...we could just be free, and then understand how important it is to just live this life we have to the fullest, and not be so caught up with what happens next.

[KWP]

Cheers Jacob - appreciate the read xx