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Where Science and Buddhism Meet PART 1
- Lecture given by
Gerald Penilla
- Script Reorganized by BJ Avilla
- Script Reorganized by BJ Avilla
“마음이 모든 것을 만드는 것(一切唯心造)이 아니라,
마음이 모든 것을 비추는 (一切唯心照) 원리”
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
개념
– 전자자기장
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 차이점 – 물질을 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. “
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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)과 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: “속도측정 – 위치 불확정”/ “위치측정-속도 불확정” – 불확정성의 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+1은
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.
[더 살펴볼 자료]
Cf.) Cheshire Cat Quantum Theory from Allice’s Wonderland.
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