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Knowing the truth of anything we talk about

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(Excerpt from the Dhamma discussion with Ajahn Sujin on Zoom - Mon Jun 19th 2023) 00:00 - Life is short and the truth is deep [Sarah] So Tom, do you have anything from that to turn into a topic or a question? [Tom] ...if they did a brain transplant I think that would be an interesting question... [A. Sujin] Is it more interesting to know or to understand what is there now? Because it's so very subtle and there might not be more time to... just talking about the story of it, may I say... Because now we're talking, thinking, considering about what the Buddha said about the truth, that is so very subtle to be known, but it is so true and if there is no considering about what he said, about everything in truth, absolute truth, there cannot be the understanding of what is meant by no-one, no-thing, no-self and no-I at all. That's why when we're talking about such it's "I" all the time, but what about just one word to be known exactly, not any scient