
178 - The Four Investigations
Secular Buddhism
The Absolute Truth
Our sense faculties determine what seems true for us. And when we get into comparing across other species, this becomes really obvious. So again, these are truths that are conditioned upon our sense faculties. Then we have the relative truths that are influenced by views or beliefs. An example of this would be red means stop and green means go. There's no absolute truth to that. That's a relative truth that is a cultural truth that we all collectively believe in. Because of that collective view, we're able to safely stop and go through intersections. It's not to say that relative truths are bad. They're just a different lens for looking at what is true. The point of these four investigations
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