Two Truths

The two truths doctrine states that there is:

  • Relative or common-sense truth, which describes our daily experience of a concrete world, and
  • Ultimate truth, which describes the ultimate reality as sunyata, empty of concrete and inherent characteristics.

The teaching by the Buddhas of the dharma has recourse to two truths: The world-ensconced truth and the truth which is the highest sense.

Only remember - this is a doctrine of two truths not one truth and one lie.

There is no spoon. There is a spoon.

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