Fundamental Doctrines
20. 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…
19. 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…
18. The Two Realms (i) – Where There Is No Cosmological Constant Problem
In this post, we discuss the Cosmological Constant Problem and why it cannot exist in the cosmos Buddha teaches. To understand the Cosmological Constant Problem,…
17. Non-Luminosity (vi) Namarupa
In this post, we discuss namarupa, a term Buddha uses to indicate that all Rupa are Rupa in name only. As discussed in Post 4,…
16. Non-Luminosity (v) Higgs Equivalent and Beyond
After discussing how Buddhism and quantum mechanics meet in epiphenomena, we explore Buddhism’s complete list of “dusts” and compare it with how science arranges its…
15. Non-Luminosity (iv) The Three Delicate Marks
In this post, we discuss Buddha’s doctrine known as the Three Delicate Marks (Chinese: 三細相). It is a critically important doctrine in which Buddha not…
14. Non-Luminosity (iii) Epiphenomena-Where Buddhism Meets Quantum Mechanics
In this post, we discuss epiphenomena, where Buddhism meets quantum mechanics. As discussed before, in this episode of Closer to Truth, Dr. Frank Wilczek, a…
13. Non-Luminosity (ii) The First Link in a Dependently Originated Universe
Having discussed non-luminosity as a conscious quantum field in the previous post, we now discuss non-luminosity as the first link in a Buddhist doctrine known…
12. Non-Luminosity (i) A Conscious Quantum Field
In this post, we discuss Rupa, one of the two realms of reality in Buddha’s three-body cosmos, along with Citta. As discussed in Post 4,…
9. Citta (iv) Where The Cosmos Expands
In this post, we explore where the expansion of the universe occurs by comparing Buddha’s teaching to the scientific perspective. In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble…
