Steve posted the following:
"Here's the question:
If you choose one belief system over another, WHY?
Is your choice closer to the "truth" of how the universe operates?
If "yes", how does one know? "
Mingte asked for my opinion.
My understanding for the Truth (for now) is that Truth is universal and eternal. Regardless of whether anybody or mind can perceive the Truth, it is forever there. Thus one's belief has no significance to the Truth.
Truth is absolute and sustainable through all places, times and even dimensions. What are the Truth? The ways the law of causes and effects, the law of Dependant Originations, the Four Noble Truths etc...operate. How the five aggregates work, how the mind works, how the universe operates, how GOD works. The five aggregates, the minds, the universe and GOD all have no real substance, and are empty in nature. Yet the WAYS they operate are the Truths. Thus there is the saying that "the Way is the Truth".
How can the Truth be perceived? Two important prerequisites are contemplation and manifestation. Truth is not something to talk about, to argue over, or believe in. Truth is an absolute for us to realize. In order to perceive the Truth, one's mind needs to be pure and clear. In order to have a pure and clear mind, one needs to have concentration or in Buddhist term, "in Samadhi".
So there is no easy way out. If one is interested in finding out the Truth, starts practising the Right Way, develops the Right Concentration, purifies one's Mind into a "Pure Land", recognize and realize the Truth, then finally manifests the Truth.
This is my understanding of the Truth for now...
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