[MD] Boromir's Journey

[John Carl]

Steve]

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> As an illustration of faith as a lack of certainty, consider the
> following old zen story as told in Alan Watts' book "Tao: The
> Watercourse Way."  (I heard it most recently in the movie "Charlie
> Wilson's War." )
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John]

Certainty is another key indicator of the difference between Hope and Faith.
 I'll say I hope when I lack certainty - I HOPE I pass this test, because I
didn't study much or didn't understand the subject and I lack certainty.
 I'll say I have FAITH I'll pass this test when I think I do know the
subject and I did study.

The fact of life's ups AND downs IS certain... but then everything I learned
about metaphysics, I learned on a roller coaster.


> The yin-yang view of the world is serenely cyclic. Fortune and
> misfortune, life and death, whether on small scale or vast, come and
> go everlastingly without beginning or end, and the whole system is
> protected from monotony by the fact that, in just the same way,
> remembering alternates with forgetting. This is the Good of
> good-and-bad. "
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