Do We Value Truth?

Do we value truth,
or do we just accept others’ versions of the truth,
and then squabble over it?

Truth – or absolute truth – is that which does not change. Anything that changes can only seem like the truth to the foolish, the unwise.

There are two truths: one relative (what we relate to, day in and day out) and the other absolute (that which observes those relative reactions).

It all depends on whether we are here just to survive, or to transcend this mundane view of reality. So much of our collective lives are bound up in fitting in with and reacting to relative truth, thus becoming even more attached.

We are so bound up in our day-to-day relative reality to make our lives ‘better’ that we have no time to stop and stare at our foolish antics which cause us so much anxiety and suffering. The Buddha said to first acknowledge suffering; that leads us on to the cause of suffering – but nowadays, it may be better to look first at our foolishness that covers up our anxieties

Absolute truth is pure consciousness.
Relative truth is a self-identity.