How Can I Know Truth?

I Ching as a Way to Enlightenment. Beliefs are ideas and not necessarily true.

I Ching as a Way to Enlightenment

Spirit shares His understanding of the timeless wisdom
expressed through I Ching Hexagram 23 -Stripping Away.

If we gently but firmly strip away the layers of illusion
within our mind we will gradually reveal the truths of life.

That process would suggest that the truths of life are
already within our minds.

Yes.

But even accepting that as so …

It is so.

To you it may be so but it can’t be for me simply because
you tell me it is so.

Yes.

Then how can I ever recognize illusion, let alone truth?

Intention to do so is necessary.

But, to intend to discover anything surely requires that
I first believe there is something to discover.

Yes.

Then, where does my belief come from.

Beliefs.

Then, where do my beliefs come from?

Your false beliefs or true beliefs?

Are there true beliefs?

No.

If there are false beliefs, or…

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