It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
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Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.
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If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.
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Exodus 20:7:
'You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.'
(NIV)
You shall not use or repeat the name of the Lord your God in vain [that is, lightly or frivolously, in false affirmations or profanely]; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
(AMP)
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
(KJV)
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
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Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.
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