1 A Question About “Existence” At the end of the previous article on Buddhism (see article: Systematic Overview of Buddhist Theory (Part 2): The Tree of Awakening—The Developmental Trajectory of Buddhist Theory: Dependent Origination, The Five Aggregates, and Karma), following the context of Buddhism's “Tree of Cognition,” we arrived at a deeper question: Observing…

1 Preface: In the previous article (see: Food for Thought Series: Systematic Review of Buddhist Theory (1): From Interest to Rational Understanding of Buddhism), we talked about the compatibility between Buddhism and science—although they take different paths, both use observation as a method and awareness as their destination. Science explores the laws of the world outward, while Buddhism...

1 My Starting Point: Why Choose to Start with Buddhism Speaking of humans as a species, we are inherently a contradiction: we can be powerful enough to reshape mountains and rivers, build grand structures, go to the sky and the sea, and even leave footprints in space; yet we can also be fragile enough to fall into self-pity, depression, or even contemplate... because of a night of insomnia, a word of blame, or a period of loneliness.