Buddhist psychology embraces this multilevel perspective. We have seen how consciousness, like light, functions on one level as particles and on another like waves. So too our existence has both a universal and a personal dimension. This psychological paradox is called the Two Truths. Sometimes these two dimensions, two truths, are mistranslated as the “absolute” and the “relative.” This mistranslation makes it appear that the absolute or universal has higher value than the relative or personal, but they are actually two complementary aspects of reality.
