What Is Buddhism?

Buddhism is an education from our historical Shakyamuni Buddha, also known as Gautama Buddha, about the nature of reality in the cosmos.

What Exists? Humanity Asks.

The question, What Exists?, is asked on Closer To Truth with the remarks, “Lots of things exist. But what’s truly fundamental? The challenge is to discern the minimum number of basic categories that explain the entirety of existence.” In this episode discussing “What Exists,” the four scientists invited to participate offered four different opinions on the question at hand. 

The fact that the question was asked and that all four prominent scientists offered four different opinions is a reflection that humanity has never fully understood what reality is, from pre-Socratic times to today, despite the advent of Einstein’s Theories of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.  

What Exists? Buddha Answers.

Unappreciated by most people, Buddha provided the answer over 2600 years ago.

In Buddha’s cosmos, mentality is the only perduring reality. Furthermore, mentality exists in two distinct states: quiescent and fluctuating. These two states of quiescent and fluctuating mentality explain the entirety of existence in the cosmos.

The question, What Exists? demands a simple answer. Not only did Buddha offer an answer that cannot be any simpler, but it is also personally verifiable.

What Makes Buddhism Unique?

Buddhism is probably the most underappreciated education in history. Buddhism is often considered a religion, a philosophy of life, or comparable to science. However, while Buddhism overlaps with them, it is unique among all the disciplines in the world.

Buddha teaches that while mentality is the only perduring reality in the cosmos, it has two manifestations. While the quiescent mentality is insensible, the fluctuating mentality manifests as the sensible universe humans experience.

The uniqueness of Buddhism lies in the fact that Buddha provides two means of knowledge to understand both the sensible and the insensible realities. While inference is for understanding the sensible universe humans experience, direct perception is for knowing the insensible mental world underlying the universe humans experience.

Two Different Structures of the Cosmos.

The Cosmos According To NASA

By using inference exclusively, the scientific cosmos consists of the lone universe where everything is energy and human consciousness is nowhere to be found. Furthermore, 95.4% of the universe is unknown, and whether particles exist in the remaining 4.6% is a matter of debate. It is a universe full of unsolved questions, problems, and mysteries, such as “What Exist,” “Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality?” the “Cosmological Constant Problem,” the “Mind-Body Problem,” the “Central Mystery of Quantum Mechanics,” and “Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?” At the same time, humanity cannot have its consciousness.

To understand the scope and limits of science, it is essential first to comprehend the scope and limits of human knowledge.

The Cosmos According to Buddha

 

 

By perceiving reality directly, Buddha comes up with a Cosmos that is a Three-Body Structure, where there is no energy, only mentality. There, humans can have consciousness, and nothing is mysterious or problematic. Not only is “Dark Energy” identified, but there are no Newtonian solid particles, only epiphenomena where Buddhism and Science meet, “What Exist?” is answered, Consciousness Is Not The Ultimate Reality, “Cosmological Constant Problem” does not exist, “The Mind-Body Problem,” is resolved, “The Central Mystery of Quantum Mechanics” is explained, and “Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing” is clarified. 

Buddha is part of the three-body structure because, through direct perception, he became part of the world of mentality. Becoming part of the metal world not only allows Buddha to realize that there is Nothing but Mentality in the cosmos, but it also means that everything that exists in Buddha’s cosmos exists only in the mind of Buddha, or anyone similarly enlightened.

By becoming part of the mental cosmos, Buddha realized the deep insight of Dr. Max Planck, a 1918 Nobel Laureate of Physics and the originator of quantum mechanics, as he said, “Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.“ 

To understand Buddhism, First Understand direct perception.

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