I've been struggling with a question: why didn't the Buddha tell something undoubtedly scientific so that in the XXI century everyone would have to embrace Buddhism because its founder knew something he couldn't possibly know if he were an ordinary person? For example, just imagine that we find the ...

I hope I would remain a follower of the Buddha in the same sense as Stoic philosophers have their followers without Stoicism being a religion. Otherwise I would almost certainly become an alcoholic or an addict and sink myself into depression. It would be difficult to endure life that has no meaning...