A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
The traditional Mahayana idea of two truths—that while everything is ultimately “empty” of its own unchanging, essential nature, we still need conventional tools to alleviate the many kinds of afflictions plaguing us all—virtually calls out for multiple modes of conventional truth.
William S. Waldron, “The Case for the Conventional”
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