What is faith

Faith is not about blindly believing what you are told. It is more about accepting. Accepting that there are some things that logic cannot explain. I was brought up a scientific atheist. The whole system of education was geared towards rearing generations of people who believed there's no God and could explain very well why. Strangely enough, that very education provided me with systematic thinking that enabled me to arrive at an opposite conclusion.

While I accept that in the realm of science logic is the king, there are other realities where logic just does not work. Logic relies on the human brain, on the thin veneer of the upper layers of the frontal lobes. They are a relatively recent development in the primates. Faith sits deeper and is connected better, it is so much powerful. To explore its full potential you need to learnt to switch off logical thinking, giving to your gut, trust your intuition and listen to your heart.

Vipassana meditation helped me see that my intellect is not me, it is a part of me that thinks thoughts, like the heart pumps blood or the stomach digests food. They all are a vital part of me but they are not me, not my essence.