mn95:15.1 “But worthy Gotama, how do you define the preservation of truth?”
mn95:15.3 “If a person has faith,
mn95:15.4 they preserve truth by saying, ‘Such is my faith.’
mn95:15.5 But they don’t yet come to the categorical conclusion:
mn95:15.6 ‘This is the only truth, anything else is futile.’
mn95:15.7 If a person endorses something …
mn95:15.8 or has received an oral transmission …
mn95:15.9 or has a reasoned train of thought about something …
mn95:15.10 or has accepted a view after deliberation,
mn95:15.11 they preserve truth by saying, ‘Such is the view I have accepted after deliberation.’
mn95:15.12 But they don’t yet come to the categorical conclusion:
mn95:15.13 ‘This is the only truth, anything else is futile.’
mn95:15.14 That’s how the preservation of truth is defined, Bhāradvāja. I describe the preservation of truth as defined in this way.
mn95:15.15 But this is not yet the awakening to the truth.”