Truth and the Way

Foreword with a Warning
Is there a way to the truth? Is truth at the end of the road and is
the road a means of reaching the end? And who is going that way,
and who is reaching the end?
One can multiply these questions: how to make a beginning,
how to proceed, and what happens when the end is reached? And
then a very pertinent question: why should one take the trouble to
make that journey at all? What is the guarantee of reaching the
end? And what is the purpose of it all? To what benefit?
Here is the warning:.
There is no end, there is no purpose, there is no benefit. There
is no one going that way. and no one will ever reach the end. Truth
is not the end. and the path is not the means thereto. There is no
answer to the question How? And the answer to the question Why?
lies within each of us.
Then, why was this booklet, written and why should anybody
read it? Said the Buddha:
“One thing only do I teach:
Woe and how its end to reach”.
Dukkhañc’eva paññapemi
dukkhassa ca nirodhaṁ.
There is conflict in everyone of us. There is conflict in every
complex, there is decomposition in every compound, there is self-
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