When in Buddhism, you hear two facts of opposing view interfaced, then you know you are talking about the same thing but with two opposing opposites. For instance, on my meditation mat this morning, I saw that if two people had the same perspective, they might have something in common. But, when they have opposing views: Christ was a Man, then Christ was a God. Two opposing views, it could mean the same thing but held differently for two different people. I suppose, I’m not making myself clear but two contradictory view points means different things for different people and might mean the same thing in retrospect. For instance, when discussing liberty: I say things are free when they have no conditions to abolish. The Buddha says conditions are never abolished. We are in opposite. But, when discussing conditions, Buddha says work them through to completion. How is that if they are never abolished? I believe he meant: work them through until you can do no more then let karma take over and observe the condition in completeness. The condition may have never been worked through but you did something so you could observe it working with or in karma. We’re the same on that, but in understanding the initial phrases we sound different. Comprehension of opposites takes understanding and takes resistance to opposition and may be the sound though initially different. I differ from the Buddha alot but understand him. What’s the difference? I read and respect but have my own understanding and approach learned from experience, which he understands and respects. That’s similarity in difference. And then there is plain difference, contradictoriness in Buddhism, and that exists for two different opposing views and can be reconciled if we decide that it means different things for different persons, like when we say Christ is God and then Christ is not God. Two different people can believe in this though it is still about Christ. That’s contradictioriness resolved. It still exists but we understand it.
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