Truth and Falsehood. I mean surely the answer is straight forward. Choose truth, don’t be false it’s that simple, right? But what if I say that we miss the point because of our social conditioning, and that this parable is actually about the deceptive nature of both Truth and Falsehood.

Although the term Four Noble Truths is well known in English, it is a misleading translation of the Pali term Chattari-ariya-saccani (Sanskrit: Chatvari-arya-satyani), because noble refers not to the truths themselves but to those who understand them. A more accurate rendering, therefore, might be “four truths for the noble”