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believe because it is really difficult to live only with doubt -- but to live with absolute doubt is impossible. So there is a need for trust. Don't substitute it by belief.
I don't teach belief. Belief is an intellectual game. One forces oneself somehow, convinces oneself, argues with oneself, represses the doubt and sits on top of it and declares one's belief. That belief is useless, because hidden behind it is doubt -- very much alive... can explode any moment.
So believers are always afraid. They know their doubt... they know it is there. They avoid it. They don't want to face it. If somebody argues against them, they become angry. They are ready to kill or be killed, but they don't want to argue. Their argument is their sword. Mm? they think if you can kill a person, you have proved that you are right.
These are doubtful people -- they just believe on the surface. They are afraid of anybody who can create their doubt again. They are afraid of anyone who can bring it up to the surface.
A man who trusts has no fear. And trust is not a repression. It is the ultimate in love. It has nothing to do with doctrine. It is not believing in god or not-believing in god... believing in the theory of reincarnation or not believing; that is not the point at all.
Trust is a different approach towards life. You simply trust because you are born out of life. You are living in it; you will dissolve in it one day. How can you mistrust it? You are an extension of life itself. How can the wave mistrust the ocean? If the wave mistrusts, it will go insane. And even while the wave mistrusts the ocean, the ocean is supporting it... all the while. That ultimate support is god. Whether you trust or not, he goes on infusing life into you.
So when I say trust, I mean a totally different approach to life: remembering, feeling, becoming more sensitive, becoming more aware that you are part of it -- you are not separate. No man is an island. We are all joined together, so how can we mistrust, and whom?
Jesus says,'Love your enemy.' I say there is no enemy -- there cannot be. And that is the meaning of jesus' saying too. By'Love your enemy' he
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