Monday 29 October 2012

Where Science and Buddhism Meet: Emptiness




My very first YouTube video, can't bear to watch it, but I thought I'd bring it back !:)

A few key points:

Buddha said that reality was a manifestation of mind, very similar if not exactly like a dream. Mind creates reality, this is what he called the true nature of reality, or emptiness. Nothing exists separate from the mind. "Reality" is an illusion of mind.

Science has found that:
1. Unless being observed reality exists in superposition, or infinite possibility, its not until things are observed that they become "material"ized. There's an inseparable tie between mind and matter.
2. Particles flash in and out of existence from a void. We don't know where they come from or where they go, and we can only predict where they might arise.
3. We cannot know a particles position and velocity at the same time.
4. Atoms consist of 99.9999 empty space.
5. Particles simultaneously exist as waves. The wave/particle duality.

These all point to a very illusory nature to reality. I personally believe there two sides of the same coin.

Thank you for being patient with the video quality, and thanks for watching! :D

Response to comment/question:
Roberto1988:
how can you *flash* in to existence and out of existence? if you are out of existence, then you do not exist. thus, you coming back into existence is in violation if energy laws. one cannot create something out of nothing. i think you exist but undergo some sort of transformation, all the while existing.
Response:
Well particles disappear and reappear in rapid succession, our mind is what "solidifies" and "smooths" out reality. Similar to how our mind turns a movie (many single pictures) into on free flowing series of events. Its not nothingness, but its infinite possibility, "reappearing" randomly when measured, it can be better understood as non material potential. Material reality is a construct of the mind, nothing ever exists or ceases to exist. This is what quantum physics has told us, its very counterintuative, but nevertheless, is the true nature of our reality.




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