So you're saying that the noble truth is just the follow-through for the
absolute truth? Kind of like throwing a ball ahead of a moving target so that
by the time it gets there they meet?
Alex Bunard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The absolute truth is not that 'life is suffering'.
The absolute truth is indeterminable, not expressible
in concepts. But, such absolute truth is useless for
people who have not realized it yet. We need the
relative, conventional truth (that 'life is
suffering') in order to reach the absolute truth.
This is the meaning of the Buddha's teaching.
Until such time, rest assured that anything less than
'life is suffering' is going to bring you watered-down
practice that will result in watered-down fruits of
practice. In other words, a waste of time.
"While the ball is going up, while the ball is going down, and when the ball is
bouncing"
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