
175 - The Two Truths
Secular Buddhism
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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