Do you Doubt?

Our minds, however, are riddled and confused with doubt. I sometimes think that doubt is an even greater block to human evolution than desire and attachment. Our society promotes cleverness instead of wisdom, and celebrates the most superficial, harsh, and least useful aspects of our intelligence. We have become so falsely "sophisticated" and neurotic that we take doubt itself for truth, and the doubt that is nothing more than ego's desperate attempt to defend itself from wisdom is deified as the goal and fruit of true knowledge...


Our contemporary education, then, indoctrinates us in the glorification of doubt, and has created in fact what could almost be called a religion or theology of doubt, in which to be seen to be intelligent we have to to be seen to doubt everything, to always point to what's wrong and rarely ask what's right or good, cynically to denigrate all inhererited spiritual ideals and philosophies, or anything that is done in simple good will or with an innocent heart...


Instead of doubting them (mystical teachings),  why don't we doubt ourselves: our ignorance, our assumption that we understand everything already, our grasping and evasion, our passion for so-called explanations of reality...?


This kind of noble doubt spurs us onward, inspires us, tests us, makes us more and more authentic, empowers us, and draws us more and more within the exalting energy field of Truth...


...What she had realized, she told me, was that the more knowledge you have, the more doubts it gives rise to, and the subtler the excuses for doubting whenever the truth begins to touch you deeply...


...What we need to learn is how to slowly change our culturally conditioned and passionate involvement with doubt into a free, humorous, and compassionate one. This means giving doubts time, and giving ourselves time to find answers to our questions...


...Don't be in too much a hurry to solve all your doubts and problems; as the masters say, "Make haste slowly."