Where Science and Buddhism Meet from Gerald Penilla on Vimeo.
An early submission by A.M. titled On the Nature of the Universe & the 'Creator' deals with much the same subject matter; trying to delineate a spirituality compatible with science. My essay on Monistic Pluralism attempts to describe the presence of a unified singularity with legitimate individuals, minds or perceptions that function (though often ignorant of their connection) within that singularity. The notion of Interconnectivity of all things brings to my mind the provocative allegory of Indra's Net. I have been briefly introduced to Kabbalaistic thought which views the totality of creation as a single system [ We Must Become a Part of Nature's System, We Are One Whole ], quite similar to the philosophic approach I took to our integration with nature in the article As Humans... For me, the composite of all of this is currently crystallizing around some of George Santayana's thought as outlined in Santayana's Spirituality and investigated in more depth in Liberating the Spirit.
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Real sweet video. Just finished reading Dharma Bums and immediately thought of this excerpt from the 21st chapter:
ReplyDelete"things are empty because they appear, don't they, you see them, but they're made up of atoms that can't be measured or weighed or taken hold of, even the dumb scientists know that now, there isn't any finding of the farthest atom so-called, things are just empty arrangements of something that seems solid appearing in the space, they ain't either big or small, near or far, true or false, they're ghosts pure and simple."
-Kerouac
smoked bhudda til i finally became one
ReplyDeletenow enlightened feeling like one of the only sane ones
tough to word it... but i heard it from within me
the answer to creationism is infinity
i found, though gods may be a fallacy
there's still something to be gained from spirituality
though neur'logical
chemistry controls mentality
the double slit test shows perception trumps reailty
only see in three dimensions, shit is limited
when probability of the fourth has already been exhibited
we're still primitive, cant even grasp the truest curse
how every thing IS everything AND nothing in the universe
atoms are 99% empty, did you know that?
two things rarely ever touch and scientists can show that
so if a world of empty space force fields sounds surreal
grab some bhudda and a physics class and go feel cause it's so real.