From David Kooi

I built BuddhaUR for the same reason I've built most things: I wanted to understand what was true.

My background is unapologetically rational — mathematician, statistician, student of cognitive science, raised on materialist philosophy. I came at the world with calipers and a hypothesis, and for a long time that was enough.

When I discovered that Robert Wright — a sober evolutionary thinker — wrote Why Buddhism Is True, the empiricist in me did a double-take. So I did what felt necessary: a 10-day silent Vipassana retreat to see whether the claims matched the phenomenology.

What I found wasn't a creed. It was a method. You don't have to swallow anything on faith — just give it enough trust to run the experiment.

BuddhaUR is my attempt to put the earliest sources in your hand, help you see the "numbered frameworks" as a coherent map, and invite you to test the claims in the lab of your own attention.