My previous post describes a week-long silent Buddhist retreat I took last month, which affected me more than I expected. In this post, I'll offer a few further reflections on the experience, and on Buddhism.
Happiness Versus Truth
Western Buddhists insist that Buddhism is not a religion, it is a science, an empirical method for analyzing the mind and its relation to the world. This claim is disingenuous. Like the monotheistic faiths, Buddhism espouses unprovable supernatural doctrines, namely reincarnation and karma.
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