I think it was the first day I was answering questions, the same time I asked that leg question business. I think I talked about Saddha, talked about confidence. If it wasn't that day then maybe another. At any rate confidence is a power. In Buddhism it is referred to as a spiritual power. Confidence has the power to keep us in line with being truthful to our direction, which is what I talked about earlier. It all hinges on Saddha. There are people who have read a lot about Buddhism and have a lot of knowledge about Buddhism. Scholars who have studied this, studied that, and they may have more words about Buddhism then I have. They may know some of the scriptures better then me and so on. But unless we have Saddha, all that is just going to stay up here and ricochet around in our brain.
We have to develop the actual understanding that all the information that we have read or heard is something we have to practice. Once we practice it, once we see the benefits, then Saddha will come. The Saddha will be very strong for people who have seen lots of benefits, the Saddha will be weak for people who have seen few benefits. It is automatic in that way, it can't be otherwise. A person who is very skilled, say in carpentry, someone like me, might see a toolbox, and can pull out almost any tool, use it easily. The person who hasn't learned how to use the hammer, screwdriver, and everything, they see a toolbox, they don't know what to do with it at all. So it is all relative to how much they trained. One person learned the tools so they know what to do, the other person did not get trained so they do not know what to do. Saddha is very similar and it will come out of how much benefit you have had from the practice. So my intention was for you to see where your Saddha level is. For you to see what this practice means for you, does it mean a lot, does it mean a little, does it mean a tiny bit? What does it really mean for you? How much are you getting stuck into it or not? So, it was really to spark you on and by golly - the interviews have been fireworks. I had no idea.