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Did zen buddhists believe that faith leads to wisdom?

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Without knowing the context of the terms "faith" and "wisdom" used in this question it is difficult to answer a query of this nature. If faith is meant in the sense of trust in the guidance of a deity, then Buddhists do not have faith as they have no deity guiding their actions, only the understanding expressed in the Four Noble Truths that human suffering results from desire and desire can be controlled.As for wisdom, this usually implies an understanding of the worlds conditions and the answers to many questions of physical, emotional and mental concen. A Buddhist would see these as imaginary issues which disappear when true understanding of the ephemeral nature of perceived reality is understood. So Buddhists are not "led to wisdom" but reject it as a desirable outcome.

Even the concept of becoming enlightened is difficult to understand from the perspective of Western Religions. Buddhists feel this is the path to Nirvana. In Nirvana the holding on to perceptions of matter, time and space are severed and even the sense of self is abandoned. It is difficult to associate a concept like wisdom with that of non-self.

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