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175 - The Two Truths

Secular Buddhism

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The Relative Truth of the Staff

Reality is determined by perception and how we perceive is determined by space and time. And this ends up giving us a very incomplete picture of reality, just like the blind men and the elephant. What I look at and call it a tree, a term I might look at and just think, no, that's food or that's home. The earth might look at it and say, no, this is a growth on my skin. A staff is not a branch. A Staff is not a tree.

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