Let’s Talk About “Truth”
(Specially given to someone who dares to stand for finding truth.)
Somebody might confuse or mix up Truth with Fact; the two words are different.
In my opinion, Fact is thing or situation occurs at specific time and place, no one can change or deny it. Fact is something objective, it occurs outside anyone’s mind or wishes. Fact exists by itself, verifies itself by some explorers or fact finders, etc..
While Truth is thing or situation occurs at unknown time and space, seems unable to neither specify nor verify because Truth seems to be a thing subjective and abstract, mostly relevant to religious settings in such a way as often depends on personal belief or faith. Lots of World’s sages have been trying very hard to seek for Truth or even gone way up to Ultimate Truth; it’s up to whom you believe in their findings.
I myself believe the findings or a teachings of Buddha, like the one which said everything in this world is transient or changing all the time, the only eternal thing is Change. So Chang itself is Truth. Ultimate Truth is the Unknown, because the moment we claim that we know what it is, it changes to something else. Fortunately, this Buddhist teaching may be consistent with some latest scientific findings… interesting!
Therefore, if there’s anyone who dares to stand up for finding truth, that person should accept the very fact that there would be only some limited amount of people who will believe in the truth you claim to be found. Except you are someone whose findings have been proven times and again for such a long time as more than 2550 years like Buddha… that what you said about truth is believable.
However, we have the way out to this, by just putting the frame around what we want to find, make it objective, call it Fact which we can verify it within times & places, and after you found it, humbly propose it to the public and let them judge by themselves whether to accept or deny it.
This is a more easy way, isn’t it? Thank gods that we still have alternatives, which make it possible for us to solve our problems.
That’s all my opinion about Truth; What’s yours??
