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+title: "Faith In Awakening"
+authors:
+  - geoff
+external_url: "https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/PurityOfHeart/Section0005.html"
+source_url: "https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/faithinawakening.html#:~:text=The%20Buddha%20achieved%20it%20through,your%20own%20potential%20for%20Awakening"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BjYTgn4vfN20U5TZ49-Gf02-P-rnmJdq/view?usp=sharing"
+course: epistemology
+tags:
+  - faith
+  - psychology
+  - empiricism
+  - intellect
+  - west
+year: 2006
+booktitle: "Purity of Heart"
+pages: 10
+---
+
+> So there’s a tension in the Buddha’s recommendations about faith and empiricism. Few of Asian Buddhists I know find the tension uncomfortable, but Western Buddhists — raised in a culture where religion and faith have long been at war with science and empiricism — find it very disconcerting.
+
+This book chapter from [Purity of Heart](content/essays/purity-of-heart_geoff), discusses the delicate, but wonderful balance of faith and empiricism in Buddhism. Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu highlights that it is direct seeing that liberates a practitioner, and faith operates as a working hypothesis. The chapter also focuses on the psychological importance of faith.