The two truths are relative or worldly truth and absolute truth, samvriti satya and paramartha satya. "We enter the door of practice through relative truth", and the Heart of the Buddhas' Teaching sheds light on the fact that you cannot "leap into absolute truth without taking the path of relative truth".
Each of the two truths value joy and suffering as well as the removal of life span. In terms of joy and suffering, the Heart of the Buddhas' Teaching states, "without experiencing relative joy, you will not know what to do when you are face-to-face with absolute joy. Many people think that in order to avoid suffering, they have to give up joy, and they call this 'transcending joy and suffering'."
In addition, the two truths value removal of life span because "we think that we exist only from this point until this point, and we suffer because of that notion". It all seems to go back to suffering and how we deal with suffering, joy, happiness, and the like. Relative truth is what you see on the surface and absolute truth is based on the fundamentals.
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