Dharma

Karma means "to do" or "action".
Dharma means "the way things are" or "truth".
Dharma, with a capital D, is the teachings of Buddha.

Buddhists like to think of Dharma as something like mathematics and science. It is there, waiting to be discovered. Even if Buddha did not preach it, it is still there. Discovery of mathematics and science made our life better. Thanks to mathematics and science, we now have technologies that enable us to communicate faster, live more comfortably, and cure more diseases. If we have not discovered mathematics and science, we will still live, but our lives are harder and we may live like stone-age men.

Buddhists believe that Dharma is like that. If we do not know Dharma, we struggle through life with suffering and living out endless cycles of rebirth. If we follow Dharma, we will know the ultimate truth, put an end to suffering and escape from the endless cycle of rebirths and attain nirvana.

The problem is Dharma is not mathematics and science. No matter how I see it, whether from the right to the left, from the top to the bottom, from the front to the back, Dharma is not mathematics and science. It is an unproven and unverifiable hypothesis put forth by a man who claimed to be a Buddha (Awakened or Enlightened One). Of course, much of Buddha’s teaching is attractive and logical, but it rest entirely on reincarnation as a fact. Buddha did not prove reincarnation scientifically but just accept it as is. The whole Dharma now rest on a fairy tale. It is not mathematics and science.

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. (Proverbs 14:12 ESV)