In China, while the "two truths" distinction became a philosophical mainstay, it was also seen as being in tension with the teachings of nonduality since it implies two separate levels of reality or at the very least a contrast of reality and illusion.
My lessons mean nothing without the contrast of reality, or the television they watch and the people they meet and the pictures on magazines on the rack at the grocery store.
But when the camera focuses on someone else, we see the stark contrast of his reality.
It's the familiar story of a holiday romance – without the contrast of boring reality, it would evaporate – but, on another level, The Yalta Game is about theatre itself.
For each sliver of optimism, contrasting doses of reality could be found.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — When the Jets reconvened Monday for the first time since their 21-point loss two Sundays ago to the Dolphins, they were greeted by contrasting doses of reality.
The off-the-wall humor of the Muppets works best in contrast to reality — the haute London of "The Great Muppet Caper" or the grimy New York of "The Muppets Take Manhattan".
According to Hurst, the "light-hearted and ironic title throws into contrast the reality of those labour-intensive, lonely hours in the studio with the perceived glamour of the art world, with its endless launches and parties".
In contrast, the "reality" of HIV/AIDS for the SA representative led to a more accepting attitude toward condom use.
The ensuing intercultural relationship permits a contrast of these prejudices with reality, whereby awareness and understanding can form.
With the growing importance of the Real in the 1960s and the Borromean knots of the 1970s, it becomes clear that Lacan conceives of the Imaginary as bound up with both of the other two registers (incidentally, the Imaginary and the Symbolic, when taken together as mutually integrated, constitute the field of "reality," itself contrasted with the Real).
