Trust

[Vajradhara]

Namaste seattlegal,

thank you for the post.

Originally Posted by seattlegal

Interesting, Vaj.

Do you think that trust might be a mechanism to overcome the madness and vexation brought on by attempting to conjecture about "the precise working out of the results of kamma" written about in the Acintita Sutta?

i suppose that it could be if it was defined as such but that is not really how i understand it nor the term that i would use in this case. i would choose a term more akin to confidence.

Is trust a form of conjecture, or a release from conjecture, in this respect? (Sounds like a koan...)

i typically use the term trust to refer to interpersonal relationship aspects and use terms like confidence to refer to the firmness of my acceptance regarding particular nonpersonal phenomena though i can be confident regarding particular aspects of a beings character.

metta,

~v