here's a quote i stole from kendall's facebook profile:
"continue to doubt, because there is much more power in doubt than in belief. when you believe, you stop seeking the truth. truth is what works, and you'll find out what works through direct experience. then it is no longer a belief, but a reality." --dick sutphen
in zen there are three necessary qualities: great devotion, great faith... and great doubt. some might consider it odd that great faith AND great doubt are both necessary. but they are. the great doubt led gautama buddha to the realization of the first truth (existence is suffering). the great faith is what affirms the buddhist faith as a path to salvation (the fourth noble truth: that there is a path to the cessation of suffering)...
in fact, the process of meditation can be seen as a rarefication or purification (although it would never be couched in those terms) of the mind through faith IN THE PROCESS of zazen, and through radical, unrelenting doubt in the mind-forms that "claim reality."
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