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 Answering buddhism:a logical and scientific responce to buddhist Philosophies

Foreward

Introduction

What Buddhist philosophies teach and their refutations

Dependant origination

Shunyata

KShanabhangavada

Meditation

Nibbana/Nirvana

the philosophical proof against Shunyata 

Scientific proof against Atheism

12 links and the aggregates

Foreward

I dedicate this short and simple book to all the buddhists in search of answers and that have a open mind in questioning their religion.

Introduction

Buddhism is a relatively large religion in East asia and Sri lanka.there are millions of estimated western Buddhists.Buddhism presents itself as a logical religion in contradiction to superstitious Theism.Buddhism rejects Theism as coherent.in this book,I want to present the logical case against basic buddhist philosophy and present the philosophical,rational and Scientific case for Theism.

it is not meant to offend anyone's religious sensibilities.I am a former buddhist and understand its appeal.but I do not believe it is the truth.

What Buddhist Philosophies teach and their refutations.

1.Depedant origination

Dependant origination is the dharma.Buddha said that' dependant origination is the dhamma'.the entirety of Buddhist philosophy is tied into dependant origination and logically is connected to it.if it falls,all of Buddhism falls.So I have chosen to examine this closely first.

Dependant origination states that a thing does not come into being except being dependant on something else,infinitely.it is based on one necassery concept:

True Arising.wich means exnihilo.all true arisings outside of a mind like in Panentheism(including 'weak 'Palamist panentheism)are exnihilo.

True Arising is basically any concrete existential arising that isn't merely a change in condition in the form of a permanent thing or merely a thought construct within a mind(and thus not existentially concrete).

Absolute Dependant origination is  the idea,in contradiction to Theism that all things are dependantely risen rather then a creation being merely contigent on a higher power (weaker dependant origination).in this case,higher power would be free from being dependently originated so it isn't 'Absolute' .

The first way to refute dependant arising,is to refute exnihilo creation.exnihilo creation cannot be an actual thing because nothing,a true nothing produces nothing.

all arisings outside the mind of a panentheistic creator with uncreated energies could be termed as exnihilo.something cannot concretely arise from itself,other,both or neither.Ju mipham the Tibetan scholar recognized this fact 1

1.Four Great Logical Arguments of the Middle Way by Mipham Rinpoche and Khenpo Nüden

2.Shunyata

Shunyata or 'emptiness empty of itself' is a Mahayana Buddhist concept that means that there is no ground of being and nothing can thus be said to be permanent.Nagarjuna the eminent Buddhist Philosopher and  the founder of this concept said that all arisings and cessations were like a Hare's horn in his Mulamadhyamakakarika .but if all Arisings and cessations are like a hare's horn or son of a barren woman,then there must exist either something permanent(wich merely changes its mode) or pervasive nothingness!

The fact that Nagarjuna did not come to this logical conclusion despite being very bright is because he was a buddhist and believed in dependant origination.so he had to come to the logical conclusion of dependant arising wich is impermanence and groundlessness!But this concept simply cannot be true.Nagarjuna refuted his own philosophy by likening arising as the horn of a hare.

3.Kshanabhangavada

Kshanabhangavada is a concept in all buddhist philosophies except the recent pali school,wich is radical momentariness.a individual atom or mind arises and ceases in an instant.nothing is permanent.a atom is replaced by another atom and a mind of an individual is replaced by a mind within less than a second.But if this were true,how could things arise?they would arise out of nothing!once the atom or mind has perished,a new one springs up to take its place.but how can this be possible?it cannot.its an absurd concept.like dependant arising,buddhists basically Believed that things pop up out of nothing!

4.Meditation

Meditation is a practice within buddhism to find enlightenment.it calms the mind,relieves stress and provides clarity.so they say.but there is also a dark side of meditation.a Recent major study says that 1/4 of advanced regular meditators experience unwanted and negative side effects like terror,sadness,doubt and depressive symptoms.2

2 .https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6508707/

Nibbana/Nirvana

Nirvana is the concept of liberation from the cycle of birth and death in Buddhism.in Theravada,this is basically extinction because it is a breaking up of the mental aggregates at the time of death of a Buddha or Arahant.in Mahayana,there is no mind or sensation anymore and a Buddha acts absed on past volition and merit.so it is basically extinction aswell.this is not desirable to most people if they knew what this was.

the philosophical proof against Shunyata 

Philosophy has also made proofs against Buddhist shunyata(where a unconditioned reality that is concrete cannot exist)

There Can Only Be Two Types of Concrete Realities:

1.Conditioned Reality: Any reality that depends on something for its existence. For example, a Cow depends on its organs, the organs depend on cells, the cells depend on molecules, which depend on atoms,wich depend on electrons,wich depend on Quarks and so forth. This dependence is simultaneous at every moment the conditioned reality exists.

2.Unconditioned Reality: Any reality that is self-sufficient, i.e. does not depend on anything else for its existence. This is what is called'(God).

any conditioned reality depends upon another reality in order to exist by definition.

Any conditioned Concrete reality, must depend upon:

a finite number of conditioned realities alone

or an infinite number of conditioned realities alone

or a finite number of conditioned realities and at least one unconditioned reality

A conditioned reality cannot be caused by a finite series of conditioned realities: If there is a linear series of conditioned Dharma, what would the first one depend on? Since it must depend on something, and there is nothing before it, the whole chain ceases to exist. Thus a linear chain of conditioned realities cannot exist. Additionally, a circular finite chain of conditioned realities could not exist either. This would simply result in each conditioned reality fulfilling their own conditions, which is against the definition of a conditioned Dharma.

Conditioned realities cannot exist in an infinite Series either. A very large unlimited of number conditioned realities cannot exist,. As the number of conditioned realities in a series increases, the result continues to be non-existence. Continuously adding to the end of the chain would never allow for the conditions of existence to be satisfied, thus the entire infinite chain of conditioned Dharmas would never have its conditions fulfilled.

If an infinite (I am granting Buddhists the notion that a actual Infinite can exist in quantity of concrete things for the sake of argument,I do not Believe this.Set theory does not help because its applicable only to asbtractions)series of conditioned realities could exist on its own, the complete set of infinite conditioned reality would be an unconditioned reality. However, this is impossible because an unconditioned dharma cannot depend upon an aggregate of conditioned realities . if this were the case, it would be conditioned. Therefore, a set of infinite conditioned realities is itself a conditioned reality, and fails to exist on its own.

Since any model made up entirely of conditioned realities can never have their conditions fulfilled, every conditioned reality must be caused by a series of realities that ends (or begins its ontological Series) with an unconditioned concrete reality.

if the series of conditioned realities regresses ad infinitum without an unconditioned reality the series itself would be equivalent to nothing. if the series regresses infinitely to more and more fundamental conditions that have the same existential status as the aforementioned conditions, then the search for the fulfillment of conditions would go on endlessly. 

But if the search for the fulfillment of conditions would go on endlessly, then every hypothetical conditioned reality in the series would never have its conditions fulfilled and thus would never come into existence.

No matter where we’re at in the series we’ll always come to a conditioned reality that is nonexistent because it is existentially dependent upon other nonexistent conditioned realities.

So a unconditioned reality must exist.

this reality must also be absolute pure being and unique,at least one unconditioned reality must exist in all of reality. I believe and will demonstrate based on Father Robert Spitzer's new arguments for the existance of God  that this reality is what  is absolutely simple ( pure existence) and unique, immutable, immaterial, eternal, perfect, personal, all-powerful, etc.

The Reason it must be absolute pure existance is because  the realities of our experience are restricted to particular modes of existance. They have distinguishing and  diversifying principles that makes them this instead of that. These diversifying principles constitute what philosophers call restrictions or boundaries.

These diversifying principles are Spatial,Temporal or  by way of being.uch restrictions cause exclusion between existents and make for incompatible states of being.even though two existents may exist in the same way , they still can be separated  from one another due to Temporal or spatial restrictions.Basically,restrictions (or boundaries) exclude and make for incompatibility.the less exclusive and more compatible a thing is with other realities, the fewer restrictions it has to limit its mode of being (less boundaries)—that is to say the simpler it is.if the unconditioned reality was restricted in its mode of existence by matter, then it would be restricted by a spatial restriction since all matter has extension in space – it would exist here instead of there. Now, such an intrinsic restriction would allow for a real or really possible incompatible state of being that would be excluded from it. But recall that the unconditioned reality cannot have any real or really possible incompatible states of being on the same level of simplicity that would be excluded from it less we end up with an intrinsic contradiction. Therefore, the unconditioned reality cannot be restricted in its mode of existence by a spatial restriction. And if the unconditioned reality cannot be restricted by a spatial restriction, then it cannot be restricted by matter. In other words, it must be immaterial.

The Scientific case against buddhist Atheism

Buddhists Generally believe that Buddhism is in line with scientific reasoning.but scientific reasoning has established God in a weak panentheistic  sence.

with the Advent of Quantum mechanics in 1925,we have made new udnerstandings regarding materialism and its implications.Quantum experiments like the double slit experiments,Schrodinger's cat,the Quantum Eraser experiments have proven beyond a doubt that matter only exists as a potentiality,based on an observer.The results  the experimental results from quantum mechanics is either you grant that the physical world is only there if it’s being observed by an observer, ot you have to say that there is an infinitude of parallel but real physical universes arising every centisecond every time somebody or something just looks up. This is absurd.

Quantum experiments and Quantum entanglement theory wich is based on experiments have proven that 3D reality is an emergent informational construct.it must emerge from the Mind of a creator.

12 links and the aggregates

in Buddhism there are 12 links of dependant arising wich explain how the aggregate of the person is apparently formed.they are as follows(From Wikipedia):Ignorance-volitional impulses-sensual consciousness-sense objects-Six fold sense bases-contact-sensation-thirst or craving-attachment or clinging-becoming-birth-aging ,death etc these links however explain an apparent why of aggregation but now a How.the mental factors and atoms cannot aggregate themselves.if the atoms for example aggregated by nature,there could be no release or dissolution.if they repelled by nature,there could be no joining.it follows that they are neutral.since they are neutral,we must explain how they come together.and the most parsimonious explanation is a personal creator.