Where Science and Buddhism Meet

[silverweb]

1. Don't miss this video!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I just watched the whole thing, and it's a meditation for a lifetime.

The metaphor about the ocean being the quantum field and the spray being manifestations of reality from the pool of potential is one I've used before in a somewhat different way. When sending a sympathy card to someone who lost a close sibling, I used it to describe how no one ever really dies, but each personality that emerges from "The One" is "like a droplet emerging from the ocean to dance in the sunlight atop the waves" for a while before returning to "The One," changed but not gone, with the certainty of reemerging in another time and place. It seemed to help at the time. I still love the metaphor for that context and the one in this video, using it to describe perceived reality emerging from the quantum field.

A number of people I know consider Buddhism something alien and anti-Christian, and their understanding of nirvana and "emptiness" is completely backwards, so I'm a little hesitant to send this to them. I want to stress Buddhism to them as a philosophy for describing reality instead of a religion. That might mitigate some of the bias against it, and I hope I can get them to watch.

This video does a wonderful job of clarifying the notions of emptiness and oneness, and every aspect of it is perfect in my opinion.

Must, must watch -- many times.

PS - Thanks for this wonderful find and for posting, it oxymoron!