Buddhism: Why Buddhism Transcends Conventional Wisdom

Buddhism: Why Buddhism Transcends Conventional Wisdom.
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The Buddha concluded his first talk by detailing the knowledge that led to his full awakening. This knowledge revolved around the four noble truths. In the case of each truth, he had direct knowledge of the truth itself, knowledge of the duty appropriate to the truth, and knowledge that he had completed the duty: four truths, three levels of knowledge for each truth, twelve permutations of knowledge in all. He set out all twelve permutations in what we would call a table, but what the legal and philosophical traditions of his time called a “wheel.” The heavenly beings overhearing the first talk called this table the Dhamma wheel. This is why the wheel has been the symbol of the Buddha’s teachings ever since.
But the Buddha’s knowledge on the night of his awakening didn’t stop with this twelve-fold knowledge. It was followed by release-the total freedom of the deathless, outside of the confines of space and time-and then the knowledge that this release was unprovoked.
The Buddha’s use of the word “unprovoked” here relates to another tradition from his time: the theory of dhātu, or elemental properties. Physical and mental events were seen as resulting from basic, elemental properties that existed in a latent, potential form, either in physical nature or in the mind. When a property was provoked, it would react and display itself, in line with the force of the provocation, until that force ran out. Individual fires, for instance, were understood as the provocation of the fire property; floods, the provocation of the water property; sensual desires, the provocation of the property of sensuality. One of the implications of this theory was that anything provoked was inherently unstable. Events depending on provocations that would come and go would themselves have to come and go. Nothing provoked could last forever.
Even unbinding was described as a property, but as one with a difference: It’s a property that’s never provoked. It’s simply attained. Because true release is not caused by the provocation of anything, the implication is that it’s not subject to change."
True Beyond True
"Following on this knowledge, the Buddha said, he knew two things more: This was his last birth, and there was now, for him, no further becoming. That, of course, was because the craving leading to further becoming was now fully abandoned.
The Canon calls this attainment the full attainment of the truth. And as we noted in the podcast episode: The Third Noble Truth, “true” is one of the epithets of unbinding. It’s also called the highest noble truth.
However, the Canon contains a paradox around the relationship between fully awakened people on the one hand, and truth on the other. Even though they have attained the truth, those who are awakened are said to be beyond being swayed by claims of “true” and “false,” having sloughed off all views (Anguttara Nikaya 4:24; Samyutta Nikaya 4:3; Samyutta Nikaya 4:8; 4:9).
We can begin to resolve this paradox when we remember that “truth,” in the Canon, has two meanings: the truth of realities in and of themselves, and the social truth of words about those realities. Awakened people have attained the reality of unbinding once and for all. That’s the sense in which they’ve attained the truth. Because the reality of their release is total, they have no more need to cling to the truths of words or claims, which-as we’ve noted many times-are true instrumentally. Like hammers and saws that have served their purpose, these truths can be put aside.
Also, the Canon notes that awakened people have directly seen the limits of description, along with what lies beyond description (Digha Nikaya 15). So there’s no reason for them to cling to any of the social truths of words or descriptions at all.

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Hi, i have just been catchup to this video
I have gained so much insight and use it to meditate, and the rapture and joy is subtle, when, as instructed, i use the mindfulness to ask/remember what i'm doing is not self aflicting and not resulting painful experience to others, and take joy of the procesd. Will continue to practise and discern each word u use in English
Btw you mention at 9:56 a book. What is the book called?

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Three thousand years ago a Prince attained enlightenment sitting under the Bodhi tree in Nepal, India.
Many people passed by but don't know that person under the Bodhi tree is a Buddha. Human has never seen a Buddha before.
Heavenly beings knew under the tree a human had attained Annuttara Samyak-Sambodhi. (Perfect Complete Enlightenment).
They manifested as humans and asked the Buddha to teach them.
The Buddha agreed to Turn the Dharma Wheel, and taught for 49 years.
Buddha is a Teacher of heaven beings and human.
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