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The Difference Between Blind Following and a Belief That Has Been Tested By Dr Gobinda Chandra Behera

Blind following takes root when a person accepts a belief because it is familiar, old, repeated by elders, approved by the group, or protected by fear. It rarely announces itself as blind. It arrives instead through a child standing beside a parent during worship, watching incense smoke rise, watching adults arrange their bodies into familiar […]

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The Silent Education: How Belief Enters Us Before We Ever Question It By Dr Gobinda Chandra Behera

Long before a child learns the meaning of the word belief, the child has already begun believing. A kitchen fills with the smell of oil and camphor on a particular weekday morning. A grandmother places a small offering before a framed image on the shelf. The child watches, absorbs the gesture, and slowly begins to

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Why I Wrote The Reality of Society in Buddhism By Dr Gobinda Chandra Behera

A child does not learn belief through explanation. Belief simply enters, quietly, long before language is ready to question it. I have spent more than a decade as an artist, watching people, expressions, gestures and the small unnoticed patterns of everyday life. Somewhere in that long practice of looking, I began to notice something else:

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