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Gaining truth through experience is a means by which unhappiness is overcome and satisfaction, happiness, nirvana and parinirvana attained. How is gaining truth through experience a means by which unhappiness is overcome and satisfaction, happiness, nirvana and parinirvana attained? Experiences cause growth and transformation in your soul, which in turn causes growth and transformation of your mind. For example, when you see the color red, that is an experience. Seeing red is the experience. The word red is the representation of the experience that we use in language. When you combine the experience of seeing red with the word red (language) that is a truth. Growth of experience is the means by which one overcomes lack of knowledge which keeps one unhappy. Truth helps one remove doubts, bitterness, unattainable goals and unrealistic dreams. Truth helps overcome the untruth in one's self which hinder the perception of the knowledge which helps overcome unhappiness. Truth reveals the way by which unhappiness is overcome and satisfaction, happiness, nirvana and parinirvana attained. One must search for the truth one's self. And to overcome unhappiness through truth one must with fortitude attach one's self to the truth. Truth of what helps one overcome unhappiness and attain satisfaction, happiness, nirvana and parinirvana? It is through the truth of the self that unhappiness is overcome. And it is through the truth (conscious experience) of the self, unhappiness, satisfaction, happiness, nirvana and parinirvana that satisfaction, happiness, nirvana and parinirvana are attained. |
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