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Originally Posted by Jyotir
All of those criteria could also be satisfied by any legitimate form of Yoga, ...
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Only if yoga is rational reasoning.
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However, another criterion that is curiously absent in that list - and might subsume all of them - is the one whereby:
5) The spiritual aspiration arises spontaneously out of ignorance as a conscious deliberate consecration of life energy and purpose, and seeks Enlightenment for its own sake by exclusively utilizing a wholly irrational faith.
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Obviously you have missed the part of this thread where it has been explained that seeking enlightenment can never be based on valid knowledge and thus cannot be a valid reason for buddhism.
It seems you have completely missed the thrust of this thread which is valid knowledge not some irrational 'spiritual aspiration'.
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Originally Posted by Jyotir
In any case, this recently released book:
“Why Buddhism is True”, by Robert Wright, (published in the US by Simon & Schuster), might provide more rational justification for those who need it.
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That can only be satire. Buddhism as truth
Or another ignoramus' book ...