Meditation, metaphysical assumptions and rebirth

[Modernupasaka]

@tuvok

The whole modern world is built upon rational thought and scietific investigation, not on faith. Faith doesn’t build aeroplanes or invent vaccines.

Some food for thought till my upcoming observations on your comments (and the OP too) which I found particularly helpful

Does God(s) Exist and Does it Matter?

It’s the same with science. Take Einstein’s theory and experiments of gravity you mentioned earlier. I assume you have not studied and understood the mathematics in your own mind, and then conducted your own experiments to verify the equations? Like, I don’t think the world is flat, but I admit I have not done any experiments to verify that the earth is round. Like every bit of science I take to be true yet have not verified myself, I simply trust that it is true. There are basically two reas…