Baldwin Schreurs, Rev. Master

Two words about which we are often confused and thereby cause suffering for ourselves and others, are ‘real’ and ‘true’. We often don’t notice that we take them to be synonymous; what is real is true. But is this conclusion a correct one?

What we experience is real, as experience, but let us not conclude that the image or view arising out of that experience is necessarily true. It is also not necessarily untrue. The image is simply an image, a view is nothing more than a view, arising from real experiences. The image or view is itself, as an experience at that moment, real but nothing more than that.

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