Faith: What is Faith, What Do You Believe?
1: What is faith?
Faith is the fear and anxiety about the future,
Faith is the pillar of spirit,
Faith is a harbor for the soul,
Faith is the hope for the future.
The future is unpredictable, the future is uncertain, seeing around, people around us, and various things happening, we will think about ourselves, we will worry and fear. We worry that one day will happen to ourselves, this fear, this uneasiness, will affect our normal life and work. If we don't solve it, eliminate the problem, it really will happen unexpectedly, and no one can help us solve it.
Faith is like an angel, will give us a belief, will make us feel at ease, no longer afraid, even if the future may happen, our hearts are calm, we can live and work normally every day, no longer worried, no longer afraid, this is the benefit brought by faith.
Credit is the pillar of spirit, everyone has ideas, everyone’s ideas are different, ideas produce spirit, spirit is very important for a person, because everyone lives in two worlds, spiritual world and material world.
The material world provides people with food, clothing and housing, and the spiritual world provides people with various inner powers and activities.
Although people are in reality, most of the time people live in the spiritual world, the spiritual world determines everything about a person’s behavior.
People with rich spiritual world, work energetically every day, work well, life is happy and joyful, happy and beautiful, but not necessarily they don’t have faith, some have, some don’t, their spiritual world is very rich.
More people are because of spiritual poverty, spiritual world is barren, every day don’t know what to do, too boring and irritable, so they go to faith, through faith can suppress or eliminate annoyance, bring direction, therefore, faith is a pillar and support of spiritual world, faith is a harbor for the soul.
When the spiritual world is barren, our inner world is empty and lonely, often manifested as feeling bad, feeling boring, no interest in anything, looking at anything is not pleasing, every day is boring and irritable.
At this time, faith can remove our inner annoyance, inner emptiness, inner loneliness, therefore, faith is a harbor for the soul.
Faith is the hope for the future, the future is uncertain, many people for the future, except for confusion is ignorance.
People with faith are full of hope for the future, full of longing, full of confidence to struggle, to strive, he doesn’t know what the future will be, he has also retreated, he is afraid of difficulties, but every time he wants to retreat, to give up, at this time, faith will like a beam of light, illuminate the road ahead, tell her to keep moving, don’t give up. So he believes in faith, believes in the road he chose, persisted, some achieved it, some didn’t. Therefore, faith is the hope and confidence for the future, faith is possible, not faith is impossible.
2: Faith in science.
Faith in science refers to the study and explanation of the world by scientific methods and rules.
In life and work, when encountering various things and problems, we look at them from a scientific perspective, analyze and study them, and find feasible solutions.
For various social problems and various things happening around, they will analyze the root causes objectively and rationally, and come up with better and better ways to solve problems and prevent problems.
In their view, all problems occur according to rules, and there are reasons for them. The fundamental way to solve problems is prevention, so that problems don’t happen, or when problems happen, because of precautions, the problems can be reduced a lot, minimized a lot.
They are diligent and careful, like to find methods and rules, they will consider beforehand before doing things, and prepare thoroughly, then go to act, to do things.
For example, facing a car accident, they often check the braking system of the vehicle, install collision protection system, to prevent the vehicle from hitting people, their logic is to solve various problems by using scientific technology.
Facing emotional conflicts between people, they carefully study and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each person, the characteristics of each person, then respond to them specifically. This is the faith in science. In their world, science can explain everything, the world is scientific.
3: Faith in Buddhism.
Faith in Buddhism believes in cause and effect reincarnation, believes in cause and effect, believes that this life, everything we encounter, such as suffering and misfortune, are the consequences of our past lives, this is the explanation of Buddhism for misfortune and suffering.
It can let people let go of suffering, no longer complain, no longer sigh, at the same time let people be kind, practice good deeds, this life do good deeds, next life will not suffer, do cow or horse.
Buddhist faith, it solves the causes of misfortune, and also tells us the method to solve it. Misfortune and suffering are because you haven’t done good deeds. To not suffer, you must do good deeds often. People are selfish and without virtue, this method cuts through the essence of people’s inner needs, because people are difficult to do so, so Buddhist faith people, no matter what things, what problems, often use the angle of cause and effect to analyze, to look at, it’s a lie.
4: Faith in God.
Faith in God believes in God, believes that God is all-powerful. All suffering, all diseases, all problems, God can solve. God created the world, God is the all-powerful God.
Any matter, any problem, praying can solve, so they pray every day, when encountering things and problems, they pray.
In front of God, all sentient beings are equal. If you do good deeds and good people, you can ascend to heaven after death. If you do bad deeds and bad people, you can only go to hell after death. Therefore, people with faith in God, no matter what things, what problems, often use the angle of God to analyze, to look at, they believe in God, rely on God.
5: Faith in Money.
Faith in money believes in the power of money, believes that money can move mountains, their thinking logic is simple, they believe that all suffering and misfortune are because they don’t have money. If they have money, they won’t suffer, they will be happy, all problems and misfortunes are the root of not having money. This is their explanation for misfortune and suffering, very practical.
They attribute all suffering and misfortune to not having money. They believe that to not suffer and not be troubled, you must earn money, earning money is the key. They faith in money. So people with faith in money, no matter what things, what problems, often use the angle of money to analyze, to look at, use money to solve problems.
6: Faith in the Divine.
Faith in the Divine believes in the power of the Divine, believes that everything is fate, everything is arranged by the Divine, head three feet have divine, they believe in the Divine, believe that everything bad and suffering is arranged by the Divine, blaming themselves for not respecting the Divine, not being angry with the Divine. If they often respect the Divine, worship the Divine, burn incense, they won’t suffer, bad things won’t happen to themselves, this is their explanation for misfortune and suffering, which is a lie.
Can God solve the problem? Can’t, people can solve problems, you must solve problems yourself.
They attribute all problems, all misfortune and suffering to not respecting the Divine. To not suffer, you must respect the Divine. They faith in the Divine, so, people with faith in the Divine, no matter what things, what problems, often use the angle of the Divine to analyze, to look at, use respect the Divine, worship the Divine, burn incense, to solve problems.
This is faith. Different faiths in the same world will have different interpretations, will bring different life experiences, people have different fortune. You are the master of your own life, faith to some extent, influences our thoughts, influences our thinking, influences our behavior.
Sea Hawk
December 17, 2019
