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On Buddhism

Undeceptions with John Dickson

CHAPTER

Buddhism Is the Search for the Truth About Reality

I think buddhism is supremely concerned with what is reality. Buddhism is the search for the truth about reality. The specific answer is that reality is impermanence. So all life is suffering because everything is impermanent. An and a very important, but highly confronting aspect of that of that impermanence is us. We are impermanent. In other words, buddhism ultimately says, the thing that you think is most real, namely yourself, is not real.

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