Tuesday, October 24, 2017

[Book Quote] The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation (2006)



[Introductory Commentary] 

p.xvi
"However, Buddhist philosophy does not accept the existence of such an independent, autonomous entity. In the Buddhist view, the self of the person is understood in terms of a dynamic interdependent relationship of both mental and physical attributes, that is to say the psycho-physical components which constitute a person. In other words our sense of self can, upon examination, be seen as a complex flow of mental and physical events, clustered in clearly identifiable patterns, including our physical features, instincts, emotions, and attributes etc., continuing through time."
...
"Now, when we look at this interdependence of mental and physical constituents from the perspective of Highest Yoga Tantra, there are two concepts of a person. One is the temporary person or self, that is as we exist at the moment, and this is labelled on the basis of our coarse or gross physical body and conditioned mind, and, at the same time, there is a subtle person or self which is designated in dependence on the subtle person or self which is designated in dependence on the subtle body or subtle mind."

p. xvii
"The process through which the external world and the sentient beings within it revolve in a cycle of existence propelled by karmic propensities and their interaction with misapprehension, attraction and aversion and conditions is described in terms of twelve interdependent links. Each cycle of the process begins with a misapprehension of the nature of actual reality. This fundamental ignorance acts as a condition for the arising of the propensities created by our past actions, mental, verbal and physical, which condition our dualising consciousness."
...
"Even at the bodily level, in the case of our physical health for example, we know that events in the past affect the present and those of the present the future. Similarly, in the realm of consciousness the Buddhist view is that there is also this same casual continumn between the events of the past, present, and the future."

p.xviii
"On the other hand, in the case of someone who dies a sudden death, when the mind-body relationship at the gross level is still very firm, it is thought that there is a greater chance of carrying forward the acquired characteristics and memories, etc."
...
"Now, let us look at the possible states of existence on can be born into. From Buddhist perspective, rebirth in conditioned existence can take place in one of three realms: the formless realm, the form realm ro the desire realm."
...
"In the literature of Highest Yoga Tantra, the evolution of all the three realms of conditioned existence are described in terms of differing expressions or states of energy and, as I have mentioned, it is said that our fundamental ignorance is the root of conditioned existence and that karmic energy is its activating force."


p. xix
"It is through reflection on the above themes: the law of cause and effect, dependent origination, the dynamics of our physical environment, and, based on our analysis of the nature of mind, the mode of the arising and subsiding of thoughts, the shifts in the modalities of our consciousness between deep sleep, dreams and our waking state, etc., that the notion of continuity of consciousness may first become established as relevant to the understanding of our current condition."

p. xxi
"In the literature of Highest Yoga Tantra, as I have mentioned, the three realms of conditioned existence into which a human being may be born are described in terms of differing expressions or modalities of energy (rlung) and it is said that our fundamental ignorance is the root of conditioned existence and karmic energy is its activating force. Further, from the tantric perspective, death, the intermediate state and rebirth are also seen as nothing other than differing modalities of karmic energy."

Sunday, October 22, 2017

[Book Quote] Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed

Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed
Donald S. Lopez Jr. May 15, 2009



[Author's Note for the books under the them of 'Buddhism and Science' from his Introduction of the Book]

- Such claims have been commonly made over the course of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, as the most cursory glance through the burgeoning bibliography of Buddhism and Science will demonstrate. A random selection of a dozen recent titles (excluding books and articles simply entitled “Buddhism and Science”) might include “Time in Madhyamika Buddhism and Quantum Physics,” Psychotherapy and Buddhism: Toward an Integration, “Quantum Mechanics and Compassion,” Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness, “Emptiness and Relativity,” Zen Buddhism and Mod ern Physics: Morality and Religion in the New Millennium, “Galaxies and Śūnyatā,” Two Views of Mind: Abhidharma and Brain Science, “The Relevance of the Buddhist Theory of Dependent Co-origination to Cognitive Science,” “Atom and Anattā,” “Karma, Rebirth, and Genetics,” Einstein and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings, and “A Middle Way: Meditation in the Treatment of Compulsive Eating.”

Saturday, October 21, 2017

[Youtube Script] Where Science and Buddhism Meet

[Note]

* Original Youtube Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj_i7YqDwJA&t=2s
  This lecture was given by Gerald Penilla. 

* Script reorganized by BJ Avilla. 
  If you found any mistakes or misleading information, please let me know at bj.avilla.j@gmail.com.
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Where Science and Buddhism Meet PART 1

[Part 1]

There seems to be strong parallels between the Buddhist and scientific way of perceiving and understanding reality. While these ideas are not exclusively Buddhist, but rather can be found in most ancient Eastern thoughts. Buddhism seems to resonate quite harmoniously with these latest scientific discoveries. I wish to illustrate these ideas by first going over three main terms of Buddhism: emptiness, interconnectivity and the nature of reality. And then drawing the parallels of these ideas with modern scientific understanding to your right will be links two sources of this information including links to videos, books, and websites. The premise of this video is the belief that these two seemingly opposite modes of perception, not material, material, intuitive, rationalistic, spiritual and scientific. But actually, two ways of understanding one reality are two sides of the same coin. A very important thing to keep in mind while watching is that there lies a large discrepancy how we perceive reality and how reality actually exist.

[Emptiness] 

Emptiness is that which all arises and returns from. Buddha said that reality arises from emptiness - a non-dual and Infinite source. For instance, the chair you're sitting on, the computer you're looking at, and even your body is arising in this moment from emptiness. To better illustrate this, think of a dream. In this dream, there's an elephant and you, so you think this is me and that is the elephant. They have the appearance of being two separate entities. However when you wake up you realize that both yourself and the elephant are both manifestations of your dreaming consciousness - the source of both this dream and an infinite variety of other possible dream worlds. Another way to picture of emptiness is as the page of a book. The page of a book without words can be understood as being emptiness. While the page itself really has no message, there are an infinite variety of words sentences and stories that can be placed upon the page. So emptiness can be understood as a field of potential in which every possibility arises from. To begin to understand this, we will have to redefine our understanding of material reality. Well then find out that this emptiness also known as the Dao in Taoism and the Brahman in Hinduism seem to strongly parallel the concept of the quantum field within quantum physics. But first explores the nature of what appears to be material reality

[The Parallels: Wave/Particle Duality] 

Our reality exhibits as dualistic nature. The matter that makes up what we experience exists both as a wave or non-material entity and a particle or material entity. This wave form that particles exhibit has no definite location within space or time, but can only be understood as being everywhere all at once spread out through the entire universe. Imagine an apple in your hand as a particle, this apple exist within a define location in space and time. For this example your hand and it's waveform, this apple will not only be in your hand but spread out through all its possible states, but how can this be? How can something that appears to be solid it at the same time have the ability to be something non-solid. And how can something that appears to have a definite location spacing time also be able to exist spread out over a large region of space. As astounding as this may sound, the experiment that confirm this has been repeated thousands of times but the same result, and what I first came as a shock to the physics Community inevitably became a well-known and accepted fact. The thing that determine whether or not particles behave like waves or particles was ultimately found to be the very thing that was observing this phenomenon - human consciousness. If particles quality is not predetermined but defined by the very mind that's perceiving it. So what appears to be solid reality is actually just one side of two underlying aspects of reality that of wave and that of particle.

[The Emptiness of Atom ] 

Atoms are 99 with 12 nines after the decimal point (99.999999999999) empty space. Again this forces us to redefine how we see both ourselves and reality. If our bodies and everything around us is mostly empty space. Then why do things have the appearance and feel like being solid objects? This feeling of solidity is actually a repulsion or push of other sets of atoms. Similar to how magnets will repel each other when two similar size are put together. Our hands feet fingers never really touch anything but are actually experiencing a repulsive force that gives us the illusion of solidity. Believe it or not you're not actually physically touching the chair you're sitting in but rather hovering right above it as the atoms of your chair and your body repel each other. What really holds everything together and makes reality appear to be solid is a sea of fluctuating energy not actually anything physical? Not only is your body mostly empty space but everything you see experience and interact with is overwhelmingly empty space.

[The Quantum Field] 

In quantum physics we have what's called the quantum field - this is an electromagnetic field in which all matter arises from. The particles that arise from this field are not separate but are actually different forms of the same system, then field of the matter arising from this field are the same thing.

Einstein says “We may therefore regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which the field is extremely intense… There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the filed and matter, for the field is the only reality. “

Imagine turbulent ocean as the field as waves fluctuate continuously up and down, the very tips of the wave crescents are what matter and our reality arise from. The rest of the see is out of range of perception but still exists as potential for matter, so all matter arises and returns from this field – the field that is a continuous medium spread out through all space and time. Seemingly paralleling perfectly with the idea of emptiness from this field arises not only all the particles we perceive, but the very foundations of each and every atom that holds both ourselves and the universe together.

[Oneness] 

The idea Oneness or interconnectivity in Buddhism is the idea that everything in the universe is intimately interconnected. The idea that we are separate entities separate from both each other and the world around us is considered to be an illusion. The true nature of both ourselves and our reality is that a complete unification or oneness. Let’s see how these ideas parallel with what physics is now telling us.

[Part 2]

[The Parallels: Quantum Entanglement] 

Einstein didn't take well to Quantum Theory. And in 1935 he and a few fellow physicist wrote a paper under the name of EPR, and they attempted to disprove quantum theory not only did they further validify but they came across another strange feature of quantum physics - quantum entanglement. When two particles interact with each other they become what is called entangled, developing a special connected relationship with one another. Now when one of these particles are affected - say by measurement or observation one particle will reflect the exact same trait as the other instantaneously. No matter how far apart they are across the room or across the Universe Einstein found this so strange that he later turned it spooky action at a distance. To understand how strange this really is but imagine that you and a friend have two basketballs that have become entangled regardless of how far each of you travel from one other each of your basketballs would instantaneously reflect anything either you did to them. This can happen feet away, miles away or even hundreds of light-years away. In fact entangled particles seem to behave like one object rather than two, three or many separate objects that they appear to be. – that’s explaining this strange action at a distance. No matter where their position in space and time these two particles remain forever interconnected. If we now go back to the singularity before the Big Bang and which our entire universe was condensed into a point smaller than an atom we realize all matter and energy that we experience right now has and always will be entangled or interconnected. Quantum entanglement seems to point to a true Oneness within the universe.

[The Quantum Field] 

We exist in the sea of energy that connects all atoms from the atoms that are arising to make this video to the atoms in the birth of a star across the Universe. To feel that these atoms arise from is spread out through all space and time and interconnected web. The quantum field is the web that connects all life, energy, matter and existence into a single system. Everything we experience has a single interconnected source.

[Mind and Reality] 

In Buddhism and many other mystic traditions, the mind is a sense of reality - it is not just part of reality but is it very thing that creates it, similar to how dream world creates our dream world. The idea of a world being outside mind, it would separate from mind is something that Eastern Traditions considered to be incorrect. In reality all is mind. Nearly 2,500 years after the Buddha, Quantum physicists seem to have stumbled upon the same truth.

[The Parallels: Uncertainty Principle] 

The famous German Quantum physicist Werner Heisenberg realized that by simply observing the atomic world we were affecting it. He realized it is impossible to know both and electrons speed and location at the same time. As soon as an electron speed is measured, it simply does not have a well-defined location in space; and as soon as electrons location is measured it does not have a well-defined speed. He called this the uncertainty principle.
 This happens not to the limits of our perception or measuring devices but rather points to the very mirage like quality of electrons. Conscious observation is connected with the event that it's observing and actually defines its location of momentum. Reality is defined by the mind that is observing it. The physicist John Wheeler considered the Observer such a crucial aspect of quantum theory that he suggested that the term should actually be replaced with participator

[Participator: Double Split Experiment] 

Double split experiment originally created to test the nature of life revolutionized quantum physics and the way we understand reality. The experiment involves the device that propels particles through slits and records where they land on the other side of the barrier. What physicists found was astounding. Particles that were once thought to be solid we're behaving like waves and how they behaved was depending upon whether or not they were being observed. When unobserved the particles took on a state of superposition or infinite potential while when observed particles take on a well-defined locations within finite possibility.
 If we were to theoretically do this experiment with baseballs when watching the baseballs passing through the slits we see them land at a well-defined location on the other side. When not watching the baseballs passing through the slits we see an interference pattern. In other words when not watched the baseballs behave like waves, going through both slits simultaneously. It's not until your mind or consciousness define the baseball position that they even had one. This experiment has been done thousands of times with the same result - it has been done with particles as biggest carbon 80 molecules. Reality does not exist without the mind that's defining it. Without mind reality exists only as infinite potential. Quantum physicists have now stumbled upon what Mystics have been saying for over two thousand years that reality is a projection of the Mind.

[Conclusion and Implications]

The mind between science and spirituality at becoming inevitably blur. The concepts interchangeable our enquiry into science and attempted to gravitate away from all the spiritual religious mystical as inevitably left us at a doorway in human history. The doorway that could provide the paradigm shift into a new self-realized civilization. Casting aside the dogmas of yesterday and bracing A New World Vision in creating a mythology for the 21st century. To make this transition, we must be willing to question; we must be willing to break apart the very foundations of our own belief system; we must be willing to engage in an open-minded inquiry into the true nature of reality. The implications are profound It ultimately it's in our hands because true change can only happen from within ourselves. For the sake of all those before us and all those after, maybe awaken to a new global vision that sees not hatred but love not division but unity; and not conflict but compassion. I leave you with the dedication.
 May everyone be happy. May everyone be free from suffering. May no one ever be separated from their happiness. May everyone have equanimity free from hatred and attachment.


[More To Read]
Cf.) Cheshire Cat Quantum Theory from Allice’s Wonderland.

Other Books written by the lecturer

[Youtube Script] Where Science and Buddhism Meet - For Korean Readers



* This version is both for English and Korean readers.
* If you found any mistakes or misleading information, please let me know at bj.avilla.j@gmail.com.
Original Youtube Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj_i7YqDwJA&t=2s

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Where Science and Buddhism Meet PART 1
- Lecture given by Gerald Penilla
-
Script Reorganized by BJ Avilla

마음이 모든 것을 만드는 (一切唯心造) 아니라
마음이 모든 것을 비추는 (一切唯心照) 원리


[Part 1]

There seems to be strong parallels between the Buddhist and scientific way of perceiving and understanding reality. While these ideas are not exclusively Buddhist, but rather can be found in most ancient Eastern thoughts. Buddhism seems to resonate quite harmoniously with these latest scientific discoveries. I wish to illustrate these ideas by first going over three main terms of Buddhism: emptiness[공함], interconnectivity[연기/인연] and the nature of reality[실체]. And then drawing the parallels of these ideas with modern scientific understanding to your right will be links two sources of this information including links to videos, books, and websites. The premise of this video is the belief that these two seemingly opposite modes of perception, not material, material, intuitive, rationalistic, spiritual and scientific. But actually, two ways of understanding one reality are two sides of the same coin. A very important thing to keep in mind while watching is that there lies a large discrepancy how we perceive reality and how reality actually exist.

[Emptiness] – 공함/무한/꿈의 비유 - "진공묘유(眞空妙有)"

Emptiness is that which all arises and returns from. Buddha said that reality arises from emptiness - a non-dual and Infinite source. For instance, the chair you're sitting on, the computer you're looking at, and even your body is arising in this moment from emptiness. To better illustrate this, think of a dream. In this dream, there's an elephant and you, so you think this is me and that is the elephant. They have the appearance of being two separate entities. However when you wake up you realize that both yourself and the elephant are both manifestations of your dreaming consciousness - the source of both this dream and an infinite variety of other possible dream worlds. Another way to picture of emptiness is as the page of a book. The page of a book without words can be understood as being emptiness. While the page itself really has no message, there are an infinite variety of words sentences and stories that can be placed upon the page. So emptiness can be understood as a field of potential in which every possibility arises from. To begin to understand this, we will have to redefine our understanding of material reality. Well then find out that this emptiness also known as the Dao in Taoism and the Brahman in Hinduism seem to strongly parallel the concept of the quantum field within quantum physics. But first explores the nature of what appears to be material reality

[The Parallels: Wave/Particle Duality] – 양자역학에서의 [무한정의] 물질의 파동으로의 이해 vs. 의식에 비쳐진 물질의 모습

Our reality exhibits as dualistic nature. The matter that makes up what we experience exists both as a wave or non-material entity and a particle or material entity. This wave form that particles exhibit has no definite location within space or time, but can only be understood as being everywhere all at once spread out through the entire universe. Imagine an apple in your hand as a particle, this apple exist within a define location in space and time. For this example your hand and it's waveform, this apple will not only be in your hand but spread out through all its possible states, but how can this be? How can something that appears to be solid it at the same time have the ability to be something non-solid. And how can something that appears to have a definite location spacing time also be able to exist spread out over a large region of space. As astounding as this may sound, the experiment that confirm this has been repeated thousands of times but the same result, and what I first came as a shock to the physics Community inevitably became a well-known and accepted fact. The thing that determine whether or not particles behave like waves or particles was ultimately found to be the very thing that was observing this phenomenon - human consciousness. If particles quality is not predetermined but defined by the very mind that's perceiving it. So what appears to be solid reality is actually just one side of two underlying aspects of reality that of wave and that of particle.

[The Emptiness of Atom ] – 원자의 대부분은 핵과 전자를 제외하고는 빈공간이다./ 단단한 고체로 보이는 것은 원자간의 간섭과 밀어냄에 의해서 생기는 것이다 (관계/상호정서의 발생도 그와 같다) - "색즉시공 공즉시색 (色卽是空 空卽是色)"

Atoms are 99 with 12 nines after the decimal point (99.999999999999) empty space. Again this forces us to redefine how we see both ourselves and reality. If our bodies and everything around us is mostly empty space. Then why do things have the appearance and feel like being solid objects? This feeling of solidity is actually a repulsion or push of other sets of atoms. Similar to how magnets will repel each other when two similar size are put together. Our hands feet fingers never really touch anything but are actually experiencing a repulsive force that gives us the illusion of solidity. Believe it or not you're not actually physically touching the chair you're sitting in but rather hovering right above it as the atoms of your chair and your body repel each other. What really holds everything together and makes reality appear to be solid is a sea of fluctuating energy not actually anything physical? Not only is your body mostly empty space but everything you see experience and interact with is overwhelmingly empty space.

[The Quantum Field] – 양자물리학의 장의 개념전자자기장

In quantum physics we have what's called the quantum field - this is an electromagnetic field in which all matter arises from. The particles that arise from this field are not separate but are actually different forms of the same system, then field of the matter arising from this field are the same thing.

[전통 물리학과 양자물리학과의 차이점물질을 형태로 이해하느냐 아니면 파동과 에너지 위치로 이해하느냐]
Einstein says “We may therefore regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which the field is extremely intense… There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the filed and matter, for the field is the only reality. “

Imagine turbulent ocean as the field as waves fluctuate continuously up and down, the very tips of the wave crescents are what matter and our reality arise from. The rest of the see is out of range of perception but still exists as potential for matter, so all matter arises and returns from this field – the field that is a continuous medium spread out through all space and time. Seemingly paralleling perfectly with the idea of emptiness from this field arises not only all the particles we perceive, but the very foundations of each and every atom that holds both ourselves and the universe together.

[Oneness] – 실체는 하나다/ 인연에 의해서 하나로 연결된 - "일심(一心)"

The idea Oneness or interconnectivity in Buddhism is the idea that everything in the universe is intimately interconnected. The idea that we are separate entities separate from both each other and the world around us is considered to be an illusion. The true nature of both ourselves and our reality is that a complete unification or oneness. Let’s see how these ideas parallel with what physics is now telling us.

[Part 2]

[The Parallels: Quantum Entanglement] – 양자역학에서의 물질의 상호 얽힘 현상 - "의타기성(依他起性)"

Einstein didn't take well to Quantum Theory. And in 1935 he and a few fellow physicist wrote a paper under the name of EPR, and they attempted to disprove quantum theory not only did they further validify but they came across another strange feature of quantum physics - quantum entanglement. When two particles interact with each other they become what is called entangled, developing a special connected relationship with one another. Now when one of these particles are affected - say by measurement or observation one particle will reflect the exact same trait as the other instantaneously. No matter how far apart they are across the room or across the Universe Einstein found this so strange that he later turned it spooky action at a distance. To understand how strange this really is but imagine that you and a friend have two basketballs that have become entangled regardless of how far each of you travel from one other each of your basketballs would instantaneously reflect anything either you did to them. This can happen feet away, miles away or even hundreds of light-years away. In fact entangled particles seem to behave like one object rather than two, three or many separate objects that they appear to be. – that’s explaining this strange action at a distance. No matter where their position in space and time these two particles remain forever interconnected. If we now go back to the singularity before the Big Bang and which our entire universe was condensed into a point smaller than an atom we realize all matter and energy that we experience right now has and always will be entangled or interconnected. Quantum entanglement seems to point to a true Oneness within the universe.

[The Quantum Field] – 에너지의 바다속에 사는 우리/ 에너지의 바다는 단일한 실체이다.

We exist in the sea of energy that connects all atoms from the atoms that are arising to make this video to the atoms in the birth of a star across the Universe. To feel that these atoms arise from is spread out through all space and time and interconnected web. The quantum field is the web that connects all life, energy, matter and existence into a single system. Everything we experience has a single interconnected source.

[Mind and Reality] – 하나의 마음(一心) 하나의 실체: 일체유심조 (一切唯心照)

In Buddhism and many other mystic traditions, the mind is a sense of reality - it is not just part of reality but is it very thing that creates it, similar to how dream world creates our dream world. The idea of a world being outside mind, it would separate from mind is something that Eastern Traditions considered to be incorrect. In reality all is mind. Nearly 2,500 years after the Buddha, Quantum physicists seem to have stumbled upon the same truth.

[The Parallels: Uncertainty Principle] – 베르너 하인젠베르그: “속도측정위치 불확정/ “위치측정-속도 불확정불확정성의 원리

The famous German Quantum physicist Werner Heisenberg realized that by simply observing the atomic world we were affecting it. He realized it is impossible to know both and electrons speed and location at the same time. As soon as an electron speed is measured, it simply does not have a well-defined location in space; and as soon as electrons location is measured it does not have a well-defined speed. He called this the uncertainty principle.
 This happens not to the limits of our perception or measuring devices but rather points to the very mirage like quality of electrons. Conscious observation is connected with the event that it's observing and actually defines its location of momentum. Reality is defined by the mind that is observing it. The physicist John Wheeler considered the Observer such a crucial aspect of quantum theory that he suggested that the term should actually be replaced with participator

[Participator: Double Split Experiment] – 실체라는 것은 마음의 정의(투사) 없이는 파동과 같고, 마음이 한정할때 하나의 고정된 물체로 보인다.

Double split experiment originally created to test the nature of life revolutionized quantum physics and the way we understand reality. The experiment involves the device that propels particles [빛의 입자] through slits and records where they land on the other side of the barrier. What physicists found was astounding. Particles that were once thought to be solid we're behaving like waves and how they behaved was depending upon whether or not they were being observed. When unobserved the particles took on a state of superposition or infinite potential while when observed particles take on a well-defined locations within finite possibility.
 If we were to theoretically do this experiment with baseballs when watching the baseballs passing through the slits we see them land at a well-defined location on the other side. When not watching the baseballs passing through the slits we see an interference pattern. In other words when not watched the baseballs behave like waves, going through both slits simultaneously. It's not until your mind or consciousness define the baseball position that they even had one. This experiment has been done thousands of times with the same result - it has been done with particles as biggest carbon 80 molecules. Reality does not exist without the mind that's defining it. Without mind reality exists only as infinite potential. Quantum physicists have now stumbled upon what Mystics have been saying for over two thousand years that reality is a projection of the Mind.

[Conclusion and Implications]

The mind between science and spirituality at becoming inevitably blur. The concepts interchangeable our enquiry into science and attempted to gravitate away from all the spiritual religious mystical as inevitably left us at a doorway in human history. The doorway that could provide the paradigm shift into a new self-realized civilization. Casting aside the dogmas of yesterday and bracing A New World Vision in creating a mythology for the 21st century. To make this transition, we must be willing to question; we must be willing to break apart the very foundations of our own belief system; we must be willing to engage in an open-minded inquiry into the true nature of reality. The implications are profound It ultimately it's in our hands because true change can only happen from within ourselves. For the sake of all those before us and all those after, maybe awaken to a new global vision that sees not hatred but love not division but unity; and not conflict but compassion. I leave you with the dedication.
 May everyone be happy. May everyone be free from suffering. May no one ever be separated from their happiness. May everyone have equanimity free from hatred and attachment.

* 결론: 우리는 과학이라는 이름으로 우리의 사고와 생각을 형태라는 공간속에, 인간이라는 삶의 영위 양식속에 다양한 패러다임으로 가둬놓고 살고 있는지 모른다. 그런 의미에서 과학과 영성이라는 것은 서로 상반되는 것으로 보아왔지만, 양자역학에서 볼때 이 세상의 모든 것은 서로 떨어져 있는 것이 없고 서로 연관되어 에너지의 형태로 상호작용하고 있다고 할 수 있으며, 이것은 불교와 여러 동양사상과 합치된다. 서양의 과학은 1+1=2로 정의되지만, 동양의 사상은 1+1 0이 되기도 하고 1이 될 수도 있다. 그것은 우리의 마음의 투사작용에 의해서 정의되고, 마음의 작용이 없다면 서양과학의 전제는 모두 무의미해진다. 우리가 물질 문명이 발달함에 의해서 편리해 지지만 인간성과 윤리성이 점차 사라지고 있는 것은 바로 우리가 현상의 공함과 연결된 인연의 우리 세계를 잘 파악하고 있지 못할때라는 점을 인식할 필요가 있다. 행복과 정신적인 번영은 색즉시공-공즉시색이라는 반야심경의 진리를 깨칠때 비로소 가능해진다는 점을 이론적으로나 직관적인 지혜로서 바로 인식하여야 할 것이다.

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Cf.) Cheshire Cat Quantum Theory from Allice’s Wonderland.