Introduction

Noa rosheta: Unlearning is the surrender of unskilful knowledge or habits. Allan watts used to say that a scholar tries to learn something every day, but a student of buddhis tries to unlearn something every day. In my original book, a secular buddhism, i talked about how truths come in different flavors and different types of truths. A personal truth may be, for me, hot sauce tastes better on scrambled eggs than catchup does. And this is a personal truth. Then you have the third type of truthwi i call conditioned truth. These are truths that arise based on views that may be held by a specific group or a specific culture,.