The Truth of the Middle Way is the teaching that Emptiness and Provisionality are different ways of pointing out that the reality of anything, including our own lives, transcends the categories of existence and non-existence. From the point of view of Emptiness, things do not exist as separate or permanent. From the point of view or Provisionality, things do exist for a time in accord with the law of cause and effect. The Middle Way recognizes thal both points of view are true and have their place.