Relative Truth, Ultimate Truth Quotes

“People who want to be free from suffering need to cultivate an understanding of reality, the wisdom of ultimate truth, while developing the method side of the practice, which entails a thorough understanding of conventional truth. There is no other way.”
― Tashi Tsering, Relative Truth, Ultimate Truth: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 2

“Understanding conventional truth enables the practitioner to develop the method side—compassion, concentration, and ethics—whereas understanding ultimate truth leads to the realization of the wisdom side—emptiness.”
― Tashi Tsering, Relative Truth, Ultimate Truth: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 2

“Instinctively, we assume that objects exist separate from the mind, but any investigation of objects necessarily involves the mind in some way, so knowledge always has a subjective element. We know there is a pen because we experience the pen. Thus, no object of knowledge exists apart from the mind experiencing it.”
― Tashi Tsering, Relative Truth, Ultimate Truth: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 2