{"id":7356,"date":"2019-02-01T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dharmarealm.com\/?p=7356"},"modified":"2019-01-27T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T22:01:00","slug":"what-did-the-buddha-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dharmarealm.com\/?p=7356","title":{"rendered":"What did the Buddha say?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a weird way, this is sort of part-two of our post-truth conversation since we\u2019re tackling a perennial problem in the contemporary study and practice of Buddhism \u2014 can we know what the historical Buddha <em>really<\/em> taught? Can we know what he <em>really<\/em> said? And should that even matter? As always, by tuning in to the DharmaRealm podcast, you\u2019re not going to get an answer to that question, and will probably walk away more confused than you were before. 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