What does "doubt" mean? If you look up this word in a dictionary, you will find that doubt is a word that derives from the Latin “duo” and which means “to be in the balance between two things”. Man lives in doubt every moment, every moment - even in dreams the doubt manifests itself in him - and it is certainly not a pleasant thing! You all know, you all have had moments where you have been fluctuating, not knowing how to make a decision.
Doubt, what a bad thing! Yet doubt is also necessary; doubt too, like so many other human occurrences, has its own function: it is necessary for theevolution.
How many doubts do you dissolve every day? Many, from the simplest to the largest: you get up in the morning and you are already in doubt about which pair of shoes to wear!
And why do you choose one pair of shoes instead of another? How does it happen that you manage to dissolve even this little doubt?
You will say: "It is an instinctive thing, a thing of no importance!" It is not so, it is not instinctive. In reality, you make a choice and dispel doubt to satisfy yours Io. Of course, you will smile: "Our ego satisfied by the choice of a pair of shoes ...". Instead it is just like that: your ego is satisfied by the choice of a pair of shoes. This self so vain, so presumptuous, so fatuous that it even intrudes on a choice of so little importance!
This example is to make you understand that all the doubts that arise in your mind, from the smallest to the largest, when they are resolved, are always resolved according to one's ego, according to one's inner needs, as well as the doubter of the fairy tale. who made his decision about the existence of a God subject to simply the gain he would have. Weather
I am here tonight to put you some doubts in addition to the ones you already have. You will say: “What need is there for this? We already have so many doubts in our life that we just don't like finding others! "
But, as Moti said, doubt is necessary, because it is through the resolution of doubts that certainties are reached.
The doubt that I would like to ask you this evening - and that I ask some of you in particular - is this: are you sure that what you see around you really exists and is how you see it? I would say that, in principle, you all agree that you are limited by the sense organs you possess and that therefore you may be interested in knowing what Reality is, hearing yourself repeated - if someone has already made a certain idea - what is Reality like.
Reality is not what you perceive. You look around you and think you are seeing other human beings, objects, animals and plants, but this is not the case.
Or rather: this happens simply because you observe Reality from a particular point of view, linked precisely to those five senses that each of you has.
Or, better still: linked to the limitation of those five senses, since man's pride must be somewhat reduced, given that the senses he possesses - after all - are very limited and very little - for example - in comparison with the sharpness of the senses present in some animals that man considers "inferior beings". Yet animals, in a certain way, already have a broader vision of Reality, thanks to this less limitedness of certain senses.
You can observe a flower: you see the “flower, perceive the flower shape, absorb its perfume, touch its smoothness, perceive its colors. The sum of all this is the flower for you. Yet, if your senses were more acute if - for example - your eyesight could be so sharp that you can see at a microscopic level, the shape of the flower would disappear and reality would no longer be what you normally perceive.
You already think that when you see a flower, you see only the external form, while the presence of the sap that flows in the flower escapes you, for example, or the mechanism that is activated in the flower, so that gaseous particles pass through certain points of the flower-form. Yet you know this happens, and it gives you knowledge of a more complete reality than can only be perceived through your senses.
This means that, even if your senses are limited, by your very nature you have the possibility to understand with your mind something that goes beyond your simple sensations; and we really hope, with time, to be able to take you beyond them, with a slow, gradual, tiring work and, I guarantee you, not only for you!
Do you doubt my words, what I have told you leaves you in doubt, my existence and my reality, the very reality of what I am, doesn't it convince you? Very well, dear creatures, I'm really happy!
In fact, if there were no doubts in you, there would be two possibilities: the first is that you are so advanced in evolution, so "enlightened" that you no longer have any doubts. Unfortunately, to my regret - but with sincerity and adherence to what is your current Reality - it is not acceptable: if this were the case, in fact, if you had no doubts, you would no longer be tied to a physical body and the need for reincarnation, but you would be in other shores far more suited to your evolutionary state, and then it is enough for anyone to observe you in your days, just for a few minutes, to discover in you the errors, the uncertainties that indicate the presence of your doubts.
The second is that, instead, you are so far behind in your evolution that you have not yet formed a true self-consciousness, so that you are not actually living but crystallizing or vegetating, but if so you would not attend these meetings.
“I doubt ergo sum” Descartes would say and, perhaps, in this way he would say a phrase even more full of meaning than his “Cogito ergo sum”.
The fact that you doubt means that you are not immobile inside, that you feel the need to know, to understand, to advance; and it is the clearest symptom of that infectious and ineluctable "disease" which is evolution. Doubt - therefore - and love your doubts, but without amusing yourselves in them; using them, instead, as tools to keep moving forward, to arrive at certainties you can rely on to resolve the biggest doubts that those certainties will inevitably lead you to face.
Therefore, doubt without fear, with all of yourself, seeking that immense sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that transforms you when you are able to change a doubt into certainty.
"Doubtful friar" St. Francis would have said.
"Father doubt" says Scifo, because doubt is fruitful and prolific for each of you, much more than you can imagine. Scifo
As the candle sheds no light if no one lights it,
so doubt does not create certainties if there is no will to resolve it.
labrys
Thank you!
“Doubt - therefore - and love your doubts, but without amusing yourselves in them; using them, instead, as tools to keep moving forward, to arrive at certainties you can rely on to resolve the biggest doubts that those certainties will inevitably lead you to face. "
Synthesis with a strong existential value of which I believe we all have a clear experience
Sometimes doubt, in my experience, creates extreme discomfort, feeds the mind that gets lost in a thousand speeches, leading me on twisted paths. Addressing doubt by making it become a profound experience requires me to make an effort towards silence, grounding and space so that the answer comes from within, and the fruits are tangible.
Thank you.
Doubts have always gripped me. The reading proposed by the guides is comforting.
thank you
I happened to read somewhere that the sign of the twins, of which I am a part, does not represent duplicity, as it is sometimes superficially judged, but the continuous swing between one vision and another. As someone masterfully interpreted: between "to be or not to be", and then add "this is the problem", but also the meaning, I would add. Doubt as a driving force for research. Certainly it does not allow you to sit comfortably and watch, it involves a movement, a push to risk. But otherwise what alternative would we have? How could we reach new understandings? Looking at the issue from this point of view, I was very reconciled with my sense of inadequacy, caused by my ancestral uncertainty. Even if it is difficult terrain, that of doubt is the only way forward. Thanks Scifo.
Once doubts made me uncomfortable, now they have become a challenge, an inner search.
I have never had any problem believing that there is a reality beyond the physical world, but I struggled a lot to understand that the reality we perceive is due to the fact that we have these senses, with others we would perceive something else. Reading you, all of you masters of the Ifior circle was and is a truly great and stimulating gift.