The Concept of the Unknown Factor in Human Belief : หน้า 27/164

Luang Por: "Humans are categorized into two groups: either believing that the Unknown Factor exists, or believing that it does not exist. There are, of course, atheists, who say that the possibility exists that the Unknown Factor does exist, but we will include those people in the first group — who say that the Unknown Factor exists. In other words, people either believe or disbelieve in God/Allah/Dhamma. In order to fully explain what the Unknown Factor is, we will not discuss those people who do not believe it exists because those people say that if it existed, it would have shown itself by now or it would have been discovered. These are also the people who say that is does not concern them whether or not it exists. So we will only be discussing those people who believe that there is some Unknown Factor out there that exists. Now for those people who believe that there IS an Unknown Factor, they may believe it exists because of the need for Balance: If there is great suffering, fear, and ignorance out there, then there must be something out there to fix it. These people see the Yin-Yang of the Universe. "Of those people who believe that there is an Unknown Factor, there are two groups: one group believes that it exists outside of the body, and one group believes it exists inside of the body. In other words, God or the Unknown Factor, exists externally or internally. For those who believe it exists externally, there are those who say that this Unknown Factor is undiscoverable, or unattainable, by oneself and it must be given to us by some Super Power. Additionally, we must have some favor with that Power in order to discover who and/or where the Power exists. The medieval Catholic Church would be a likely example of this because of the history of paying indulgences to the Church, or Bishop, in order to get into Heaven, or to find favor with God. "On the opposite side of those people, there are those who believe that is it totally discoverable by oneself, and they look for it in two ways: either outside of the body (searching the world for it), or with the mind, but they meditate with the mind outside of the body by meditating on a medium flame, or the sun, or in any external space until they reach the right state where they can go on their search. "Now backing up, for those who say it is discoverable INSIDE of the body, people take two directions, like the Buddha did when He first started: first, through luxury or opulence in which people indulge in sensual pleasure, OR through self-mortification, in which a person inflicts bodily or mental pain upon themselves, perhaps in near starvation or self-mutilation. We know, of course, that this is how the Buddha discovered that a thesis and anti-thesis lead to a synthesis, which is, in this case, the Middle Path. Because he was born as a Prince, he had every comfort that he ever wanted. His father had provided