{"id":1387,"date":"2018-06-29T08:08:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T15:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dharmarealm.com\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2018-12-20T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T19:00:01","slug":"experience-and-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dharmarealm.com\/?p=1387","title":{"rendered":"Experience and Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faith! We\u2019re bouncing off a question about faith in our personal experience with Buddhism. Now, we know that having said faith, half of you said \u201cThere\u2019s no faith in Buddhism!\u201d And the other half said, \u201cWell, what do you mean by faith?\u201d We\u2019re gonna tell you what we mean by faith and hopefully the other half are still listening as we take a deep dive into different aspects of faith, blind faith, believing in things in the absence of evidence, secularism, and eventually shinjin, a foundational concept for Jodo Shinshu which, apparently, we\u2019re not supposed to talk about. 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Now, we know that having said faith, half of you said \u201cThere\u2019s no faith in Buddhism!\u201d And the other half said, \u201cWell, what do you mean by faith?\u201d We\u2019re gonna tell you what we mean by faith and hopefully the other&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dharmarealm.com\/?p=1387\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Experience and Faith<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2269\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1387-5\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/dharmarealm\/www.dharmarealm.com\/podcast\/episode_103.mp3?_=5\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/dharmarealm\/www.dharmarealm.com\/podcast\/episode_103.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/dharmarealm\/www.dharmarealm.com\/podcast\/episode_103.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/dharmarealm\/www.dharmarealm.com\/podcast\/episode_103.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.dharmarealm.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1387-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/dharmarealm\/www.dharmarealm.com\/podcast\/episode_103.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"episode_103.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 29:17 &#8212; 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