Truth
Truth In certain contexts meanings such as 'teaching' or 'practice' seem not to fit; a meaning closer to 'truth' - the truth about the world or reality as directly realized and taught by the Buddha - seems to be required. Thus in a number of places in the Nikayas it is described how the Buddha by means of step by step instruction (anupubbl kathii) leads his listeners to a vision of the truth: he talks of giving, virtuous conduct, and heaven; he reveals the danger, vanity and impurity of sense desires, and the benefit of desirelessness; and when he sees that the hearts of his listeners are ready, open and without hindrance, are inspired and confident, then he reveals the teaching of the truth that is special to buddhas - suffering, its arising, its cessation, the path; and at the conclusion of such step by step instruction there arises in his listeners 'the clear and spotless vision of the truth (dhamma-cakkhu),; 96 RUPERT OETHIN' the listeners are now