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Enlightenment • Transcript of a conversation with Buddhists   4 / 12

Q: I really will try to understand this "Truth" of yours if you can explain it to us. Will you give us your explanation of the Buddhist "Two Truths".

A: The two truths, the ultimate and conventional, are in fact only one. When we say that waves exist, it is understood that the ocean exists, and vice versa. The two truths are not separate existences, but different aspects of the one Truth.

Q: Our Buddhist scriptures say that the self has a conventional self-existence, yet I have heard you deny the conventional existence of a self - how so?

A: The self is a fact, not a reality. You are trying to understand two before you understand one. You are trying to understand the conventional dualistic world before you know God. Conventional existence is not so easy to understand. Do you really think you can understand the meaning of "conventional" before you have understood the way in which all things exist? First the Kingdom of God!

 

 

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