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Right Speech and the Politics of Delusion

Delusion may not be a very nice word to some. It may conjure images of stupid or crazy. What delusion means - from a Buddhist perspective - becomes clearer when you think in terms of its opposite: wisdom. A person who possesses wisdom does necessarily possess a high IQ or an utterly sane mind - both of which are relative states. Think of wisdom and delusion as reciprocal states. The more wise a person becomes, the less deluded.
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