Posted: Aug 13, 2016 11:20 am
Ven. Kwan Tam Woo wrote:...
What do you mean by "act upon"? For example, if you believe that there is life after death and then modify your day-to-day behavior in accordance with that belief, would you say that you are acting upon that belief?
Tricky stuff. A belief b is some structure blasted into some set of brain cells, in such a way that it will influence your thinking. Now the verbalization of a belief is another structure associated with b. V(b) = "I believe in life after death".
So if I am passing and a semi comes over the hill I run my circumstance through a little process with b and decide not to turn the wheel.
I guess I would call that acting on my belief. Not for long though!