Buddhism Through Epistemology
33. Causality (iii) The Three Realms and Six Destinations
This post discusses the Three Realms and Six Destinies of samsara, which are the possible places an unenlightened person undergoing cycles of rebirth can end…
32. Causality (ii) The Reincarnation of a US. WWII Pilot
The Reincarnation of James Houston Jr. case was a well-documented reincarnation case that was widely broadcast on NBC several decades ago. According to its written…
31. Causality (i) – Buddha’s Consequential Doctrine
In this post, we discuss Causality. While Causality is Buddha’s consequential doctrine that affects all conscious beings, it is no longer the exclusive domain of…
30. The Two Realms (iii) Verifying Adventitiousness
In this post, we try to verify the adventitious relationship between enlightenment and unenlightenment. But let’s first recall the meaning of enlightenment, unenlightenment, and adventitiousness…
29. The Two Realms (ii) – The Four Realms of Reality
In this post, we discuss the Four Realms of Reality, a Buddhist doctrine in which the Buddha teaches that there are four ways of understanding…
21. Enlightenment (ii) – The Vanishing of the Largest Possible Universe
Having discussed Adyashanti’s enlightenment experience, we now discuss the enlightenment experiences of two prominent monks from the Tang Dynasty in China hundreds of years ago….
20. Enlightenment (i) – Awareness-The Nature of All Existences
Having discussed Citta and its role in enlightenment, we now verify enlightenment in the Buddhist way. Globally, many people teach enlightenment, and enlightenment can mean…
13. Epistemology (xi) Mentergy-The Complementarity of Buddhism and Science
In the Epistemology Category, we have focused on Buddha’s two means of knowledge: inference and direct perception. Inference refers to the inferentially connected word-based knowledge…
12. Epistemology (x) The Five Aggregates (iv) Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
According to this Wikipedia article, Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing, “is a question about the reason for basic existence which has been raised or commented…
11. Epistemology (ix) The Five Aggregates (iii) – The Observer Effect – No Change in Reality
We discuss the Observer Effect in this post. The Observer Effect is associated with the Double-Slit Experiment and was discovered in 1801 by the British…
