PHILALETHIA, LOVE OF TRUTH<\/h1>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 What\u2019s true is not false. \u00a0In the absence of truth the false has power. \u00a0 What is the origin of falsity? \u00a0 What is the origin of truth? In the case of the false, its origin is none other than the mind. The false does not really exist; it\u2019s just that the mind superimposes the false on what is real reality. The true truth is reality itself, actuality, thusness; whatever is just is, without the superimposed descriptions made about it by the fragmented mind.<\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 The love of truth, or philalethia, is an acquired love. \u00a0It happens when a person becomes capable of determining what is false. When truth dominates someone\u2019s idealistic pursuits, a lot of enquiry into the real has already been done. \u00a0The result is cumulative; the more enquiry, the more the false loses its power to deceive. \u00a0 Finally it is known that the false does not exist and never has existed.<\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 Someone might say, \u201cThe dam has broken; run for your lives.\u201d \u00a0 If the dam has broken, that\u2019s the truth; if it has not, the idea is false. The falsehood is just a statement that engenders an idea. The statement is a statement; it is a real statement, but its content is a falsehood. The idea the falsehood produces is a real idea, but its content is a falsehood. \u00a0 Falsehoods exist only as notions, ideas, and imaginations, but they have no true or real basis of support.<\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A lie is a falsehood, yet it can truly exist. Lies exist, but there is no support for their real existence, so we can say that lies and falsity exist only as an imaginative absence of the real and true. \u00a0Once the truth is known, the false cannot stand and it becomes absent. \u00a0This absence can be known too, although there is nothing there to be known except the absence. \u00a0 Someone who has understood in this way is set free from the influential powers of the false. \u00a0This absence of the binding power of the false has been described in traditional literature about such subjects as moksha (liberation) or bodhi (awakening). \u00a0 The most toxic falsity that becomes known to an enquirer is that of the ego-notion. \u00a0It is conquered only by the philalethian, the lover of truth.<\/h2>\n

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