“I don’t understand why intelligent scientists keep asking why we have not heard from “aliens.” How do they expect any aliens to get here?”
I think this is based on the assumption that there could be civilizations that are billions of years more advanced than ours. But as per Dhamma, humans have been in this planet for billions of years too but there have been many ups and downs.
I used to wonder why Buddha spoke about the cosmos when his message is entirely based on the mind. My educated guess is that he wanted to provide the bigger picture of the “anicca” nature of the universe. That’s why he talked about the destructions and re-formations of world systems. I am grateful to the work of scientists like Galileo and others that have helped us visualize the unstable nature of the cosmos, thus verifying this aspect of the Dhamma.
