Presents a reply to a commentary by professor Brook Ziporyn about the review of his book "Evil and/or/as the Good: Omnicentrism, Intersubjectivity, and Value Paradox in Tiantai Buddhist Thought," which was published in the "Philosophy East & West" journal. Response to Ziporyn's view about the relationship between ultimate and provisional truth; Reaction about the misleading use of the term identical; Problem for Tiantai posed by overemphasis on identity.