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I'm afraid my pre-enlightened mind doesn't have a clue what you're on about.

Not sure I follow. The standard surely still exists independent of whether you've gotten yourself enlightened or not? Just post-enlightenment you become unaware of this standard. [I am so out of my depth here...thank you all kindly for your patience and taking the time to answer my questions...

So in absolute reality, we are the same person? Isn't this just obviously false? Certainly not! :eek:

Well this explains my mad and vexed ontological nature :p

Well...neither are true... Light appears to act as a particle in some situations and as a wave in others...but I don't think scientists have got very far on the ontology of light yet...

But isn't it clear that the Stones and the Beatles make different music? The difference is certainly actual to my primitive mind. And there either is an absolute standard of musical "goodness" or not. (Btw, the Beatles are better than the Stones :p)

Could you give an example where the opposite of a profound truth is also true?

OK, so what does the apparent paradox we've been talking about basically mean?

Sorry, but how can they both be valid if they are contradicting perspectives on reality? There is only one reality, isn't there? [I don't know whether those "realities" should have "R's" or not...]

Do you, then, disagree with Snoopy about whether there is a difference in Reality between them? Perhaps the passage is talking about practical reality (if, as Snoopy suggests, there is a distinction between the two). Could you possibly expand on this point and how it relates to what we've...

So if we are to be in touch with Reality then we should stop thinking in terms of the categories of good and bad?

So there is no difference in reality between love, hate, good, bad, the whole shebang?

Please forgive, for I'm a total noob when it comes to Buddhism. I've heard that some Buddhists (Zen?) use the phrase "If you see the Buddha, kill him", and that it means that you haven't realised that you are the Buddha, because all is one (monism). Is this right? And if it is, what about...

What do you mean by "choose"?

Could someone unpack the concept of herem (devotion to destruction) found in Numbers, Deuteronomy and Joshua? Was it something that was literally carried out, with the slaughtering of Canaanite women and children, or is it meant in a more metaphorical sense of "giving everything to Yahweh", or...