Faith

[Potential]

There are two types of Faith.
1. a) one's religion, b) what one believes in
2. that which overcomes doubt.

Since everybody understands Definition #1, I' ll discuss Definition #2.
You cannot understand faith, without first understanding doubt.

How to experience doubt:
When in meditation after a period of time, you may hear a noise, like someone speaking to you and no one is there. Or you may see an image as crystal clear as you see your own computer screen. The moment you think WTF? or What is this? or even the simple "Huh?", it disappears. That was doubt. And the longer you can hold the vision without questioning it is the strength of your faith increasing.

Faith is not something you just say, "I believe"and then go walk on water. You have to train it.

Faith as small as a mustard seed can move a mountain, but most people can't even move the mustard seed, so what faith do they have? Their faith is weak, or non-existent.

[sweetbliss]

Faith as small as a mustard seed can move a mountain, but most people can't even move the mustard seed.

Thanks, nice expression!

Faith is there they just need to let it happen. There is not way to really lose this faith, it's the core of existence. It's what makes stars and planets move and it's creating us.
It's how I feel it. (Though   I wouldn't say that I got over all my frights. There was a time when they used to torture me a lot   ).

Anyway...
For me, the no.2 Faith you are describing occurs when we give up searching for thoughts or images (images are also thoughts). So, beyond the thoughtless, there is this pure unsustained  Faith, sustaining everything.

Beyond images and and beyond hopes.

[Telos]

Potential, that was a great post! I always had the feeling that faith was a skill of some sort, but I could never quite understand it from the many interpretations of the word "faith." That was very succinct.