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the method of emotion, is absolutely different. Intellect is the outer part: your mind. Emotion is deeper. It is your heart. The approach of emotion is based on a contradictory foundation: trust. The moment you doubt, you are nowhere.
One who cannot doubt absolutely should not doubt at all. If you don't think you can doubt absolutely then don't doubt at all or you will get nowhere.
The contrary, which is also true, may be more easy to understand. If you can't trust absolutely, don't trust at all. No trust can be relative. If you say that you trust with conditions, you don't mean it. Trust is unconditional. If someone comes to me and says, "I believe in you because of this or that," he has no trust. Trust means that there is no cause for it. You trust because you can trust. Who or what you trust is not what creates the trust. It is because of you, because your heart can trust, that you trust. It is not me who is significant. The object of trust is not significant, the heart that trusts is significant. If you can trust, trust. If you can doubt, then doubt. Again, the object is meaningless. Go on doubting -- with every object.
But first decide what type of person you are, otherwise your life will be just a waste. Decide whether you can trust absolutely or you can doubt absolutely. If you say, "I can only doubt relatively," you will not get anywhere, the technique of doubt cannot be used. If you say, "I can only trust relatively," then too you will be nowhere because each technique works only in absoluteness.
This must be understood. Each technique works only in absoluteness. That's why every religion has emphasized absoluteness. The reason is not to deny other possibilities to say that other ways are wrong, but only to emphasize absoluteness. If a Mohammedan says that nothing can be added to the Koran, it is only a way of saying that he trusts so absolutely that nothing else is needed. Or if a Jain says that Mahavir is all-knowing, it doesn't mean that in fact he know all, but only that "I trust him so absolutely. To me, he knows all. Now to me, there is no need to go anywhere else."
Only absoluteness works. Otherwise you go on wavering
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