Trust as a Quiet Knowing
La confianza como un saber silencioso
A question about what it means to trust, not as a belief or thought, but as something deeper and quieter.
Trust as a Quiet Knowing
A question about what it means to trust, not as a belief or thought, but as something deeper and quieter.
I wanted to ask you about what you said: trust, but not as a thought, not as a belief.
Right. Don't make it a belief, because we can hear things like what I'm saying and they can become part of a belief system, a thought form. For example: "I need to trust, and I'm not trusting now, and once I get to trust..." Then it becomes a thing we're manipulating and struggling with, trying to trust. What I'm talking about is much quieter than that.
Is it maybe like a knowing without seeing?
On listening to what is deep
In a sense, it requires a choice about what we are listening to. We know when something is deep and when something is not. In some place, we know. So trust is simply this: know that you know, and listen to what's deep.
That can become a practice or a process, because at times we will think we're listening to something deep and we're not. Then we will realize. But the trust itself, at first, can work like this: I say the trees are green, and you don't see them as green. The trust at first can be, "It feels like I have a resonance. When he says the trees are green, maybe they are green, and I just don't see them that way." That opens something a little. But it's important not to simply say, "Well, the trees are green. I see them as red, but they're green, and I trust that they're green." That is not the work.
The subtle resonance beneath the noise
The part of you that has this sense of, "Maybe they are not red," that is where to look. There is a deeper, quieter sense that something resonates and feels true. But everything else is screaming, "It's not true, it's not true, it's wrong, that's not what it is." Trust is that really subtle, deep sense that something resonates, something knows. Trust that.
Thank you. I got it.