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Devotional Faith vs Faith in Dhamma Principles | Saddha | Confidence | Conviction
The new 'Saddhamma Cetiya' at Dhammagiri will serve as a focal point to direct and develop our faculty of faith/confidence/conviction ('Saddhā').
However, it's important to understand that faith/confidence is not limited to devotional affection to a particular person. We can also have faith in abstract principles of Dhamma, like:
"All conditioned phenomena are not self"
"Craving is the cause of suffering"
"Lying is never wholesome, it's better to not even speak any 'white' or 'polite' lies, but to always be truthful"
and so on...
Our wisdom faculty may still be too weak to really understand…
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