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@Shoshin1 said:

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@Shoshin1 said:
The universe is not in a state of flux, it is flux Every thing evolves would come to mean no thing is true ...no thing...

I guess I would ask, what does it mean to you then? What isn't true? How does it impact how any of us live or think or feel?

Thus have I heard and from what I gather, the whole idea of Dharma practice is for the practitioner to see through the veils of deception conjured up by a conditioned mind, a mind that defaults to the negative outcome when confronted with dukkha events.

And those negative outcomes more often than not involve the misleading concept of permanence, perceiving some situations as unchangeable, when the ultimate teaching is that nothing is permanent, everything is flux.

Pleasant things are dukkha just as much as what one perceives as negative things, because the same conditioned mind grasps at pleasure as if it could last.

There is no permanent entity doing the thinking, feeling, or living, and the more there is a realisation of this, an experiential understanding, the looser the attachment to things becomes, which will eventually lead to going with the flow of change and not against it.

None of this should stop the practitioner from showing empathy and putting this empathy into action, aka compassion, when confronted with a situation where other sentient beings are suffering injustice.

I think this is correct to a degree. People cling to ideas and notions for the sake of those ideas and notions. I think my point about the Two Truths was that it can be taken too far. The conventional world still operates in a lawful, cause and effect manner. You could tell someone we're going to grow crops with Brawndo now rather than water, because it has electrolytes. And they could resist the idea not because they are resistant to change, but because they think Brawndo won't work and will actually kill the plants. Or would you be willing to go with the flow of Trump's changes because you have a deep sense of emptiness?