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Infinite Quantum Zen
  • BOOKS
    • WISDOM TEACHINGS of Sambodhi Padmasamadhi
    •    – Book Info (Volumes 1-70)
    • AWAKEN THE LIVING AWARENESS WITHIN
    •    – Book Info
    •       – Preface
    •       – Introduction
    •    – Prologue
    •       – Opening Words
    •          – About This Book
    •          – About Writing Style
    •          – Mysterious Author
    •       – On Knowledge and Wisdom
    •       – On Consciousness and Awareness
    •       – On God, Spirit and Soul
    •       – On Reality and Actuality
    •       – On Change and Transformation
    •       – On Interconnectedness
    •       – On Intelligence
  • INFINITΞ
    • Infinite World of Quantum and Zen
    •    – The Essence of Zen
    •    – The Birth of Infinite Quantum Zen
    • Infinite Living System – The Miracle of Life
    •    – Infinite Fractal of Creation
  • TRΛNSFORMΛTION
    • Towards An Era of Transformation
    •    – Outdated View of Life
    •    – The Emergence of a New Vision
    •       – Ancient Wisdom Resurfaces
    •       – The Living Earth (Gaia)
    •       – Metaphysical Paradigm Shift
  • LIFΞ
    • The Essence of Life
    •    – What Is Life?
    •    – In Search for the Meaning of Life
    •    – The Mystery of Human Life
    •    – A Species With Collective Amnesia
    •    – Humanity – The Pinnacle of Evolution?
    •    – Humans – Masters of Storytelling
    •    – The Game of Survival
    •    – The False Sense of Self
    • The Preciousness of Human Life
    •    – When Does a Human Life Begin?
    • The Existential Paradox
    •    – The Fear of Annihilation (Non-Existence)
    •    – Change is the Only Constant
  • CONSCIOUSNΞSS
    • The Mystery of Consciousness
    •    – Panpsychism – Dilemma of Consciousness
    • Living Consciousness – Vibrant Interconnected Reality
  • ΛWΛRΞNΞSS
    • Awakening From the Dream of Life
    • What Is Self-Awareness?
    • Living Awareness – The Heart of Living Life
    •    – What Is Living Awareness?
    •    – 7 Levels of Living Awareness
    • The Art of Lucid Living
    • The Art of Mindful Living
  • QUΛNTUM
    • Living Quantum World – A New Synthesis of Knowledge
    •    – Problems of Understanding the Quantum World
    •    – Crisis at the Edge of Physics, Science & Cosmology
    •    – Quantum Mechanics & Quantum Entanglement
    •    – The Role of Consciousness in the Quantum World
    •    – Quantum Nonlocality & Multiverse
    •        – Interconnected Nested Multiverse
    •        – Shifting into a Parallel Universe
    •    – Quantum Nonlocality & The Nature of Time
    •        – The New View of Time – Time Equals Life

Infinite World of Quantum and Zen | Awaken the Living Awareness Within ∞ INFINITΞ ∞

by Sambodhi Padmasamadhi Monday, March 01, 2021
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~ ∞ ~ Infinite World of Quantum and Zen - Awaken the Living Awareness Within ~ ∞ ~



In this section, we will further our understanding of life and our experience of it; the discussion we are having here is a natural continuation of the one we started in Prologue. We begin this section by briefly exploring the core idea of Zen, which is to come in touch with the essence of life, and to do this in a way that is both simple and elegant.

In this brief exploration, we can see how the Zen approach parallels with the fascinating realm of the Quantum World. Each of them in their own unique ways help us understand life, each of them have something to teach us about life, about ourselves, about interconnectedness of all life, you see?

Therefore, it is not only logical, but imperative that we get familiar with both as they form the backbone of the conceptual framework named Infinite Quantum Zen – the cornerstone out of which this book emerged, you see?

The fundamental core of this dynamic framework is found in awareness – more specifically, in Living Awareness. And because this framework essentially resides within everyone who comes into contact with this book, it is an essential prerequisite to have an understanding which allows one to see beyond the surface.

For you see, it is like a seed – when planted in fertile soil, it can bear the fruits of wisdom, peace, happiness, harmony, and virtues; it dynamically creates and holds the space for exploration and discovery. So therefore, any bit of prerequisite information and prior knowledge can enhance the experience of reading this book, and in so doing can make the journey a little bit smoother.

Soon after we have covered the basics, we will take a closer look at the Essence of Zen, which will lay the foundation for further learning as it opens the door to the idea of present moment awareness – mindfulness, if you will. This will help us tremendously as we progress on our journey of discovery through several other sections; there are plenty more to discover, a plethora of questions to be asked, and lots of answers to be found.

The key here is not to rush; as is the case with all novelties that need time to grow, ripe and mature – so is the case with wisdom. You see, an essential part of mastery (of mystery) is patience, persistence, and consistency, as is the case here – see?

After we have explored the Essence of Zen, we will take a short detour and see how the above-mentioned conceptual framework got started, and how something that was initially conceptual became a living experience – it will be an eye-opening reading experience that will shed some light on the personal side of things. Later in our journey, we will have the great opportunity to delve deeper into the miraculous nature of Life and its built-in Living Intelligence.

In this journey, we will learn a new way of seeing life, which gives us the chance to understand Life as a unified, interconnected whole. In the midst of this, we also get to discuss what is needed of us in the future if we as the collective human species are to pursue the path of conscious transformation, which entails a conscious effort on our part to grow, mature, and progress – and eventually prosper, you see?

This discussion also serves the purpose of laying the ground for what lies ahead in the next section. So without a further due, let us delve right into it, shall we? There’s no better way to capture the Essence of Zen than by saying that Zen is a way of living and being. We can continue by saying that Zen in its basic essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one’s own being – seeing into one’s true nature.

In other words, Zen is coming back to this moment, to the natural, obvious simplicity of our true nature, which is another way of saying that Zen is a way of being in the world with mindful awareness of the present moment. As such, Zen is the achieving the balance between the world and the self. If there is anything to take away from this, it is this: Zen approach can teach us how to become empty and receptive.

When we are talking about the similarities between the ideologies of Zen and the Quantum World, we can find one common denominator above all else – Infinity (∞). Not only is the universe of Zen Infinite, but so is the realm of the Quantum.

Infinity is a concept describing something without any limit; Infinity is infinitely infinite, in which even seemingly finite structures are inherently infinite at all points. In other words, Infinity is the unreachable point at the end of a never-ending line that repeats itself ad infinitum.

In the worldview of Zen, the entire universe is found in a single hair, and countless worlds in a speck of dust; likewise, in the scientific world, the Quantum Mechanics is used to explain the natural world’s operations as the understanding of macro is found in micro.

Quantum Mechanics shows that one cannot decompose the world into isolated tiny entities capable of an independent existence. You see, the deeper we look, the more we realize that matter is not a collection of tiny independent particles but rather an interconnected web of relations between parts of a whole.

Another similarity can be found in the idea of sunyata as it is called in Sanskrit. Sunyata signifies that the universe is an open space of unlimited creative potential; similarly, Quantum Mechanics describe potential for existence. To give an example: matter and energy are not in themselves phenomena, and do not become phenomena until they interact with the mind.

These experimental aspects of sunyata are described in quantum phenomena. Although sunyata is often translated to mean ‘emptiness’ or ‘voidness,’ it is not a vacuum or a state of nothingness as generally understood – rather, it is both ‘emptiness’ and ‘fullness’ at the same time; or more aptly, pure potentiality – see?

One of the most glaring examples of the intersection of the worlds of the Quantum and Zen is to be found in the principle of wave-particle duality, which holds that elementary particles can exhibit the characteristics of both particles and waves, yet can be wholly reduced to neither.

Quantum Mechanics recognizes the duality of matter by showing that nature on the smallest subatomic level behaves as both a particle and a wave. A photon, for example, can be a particle, or it can be a wave – or it can be both at the same time.

Thus, one can say that Quantum Mechanics reveals the basic unity of the universe. You see, in Quantum Mechanics, subatomic particles exist in probability waves, and are only defined when something conscious observes them – otherwise they are everywhere and nowhere. And here we can find an amazing parallel: in the Zen way of thinking, opposites can exist simultaneously; contradictory things can exist at the same time.

Like the quantum wave function, a probability matrix used by physicists to describe the state of a system at a given time, wave-particle duality points us to one of the central problems at the heart of the Quantum World: Is there an objective, independent reality that is capable of being quantified, or are all such measurements subjective? Subjective by virtue of the fact that the measurements are always dependent on the observer, thus merely reflecting the observer’s mind, observer’s consciousness.

Let us explore this from the viewpoint of Zen, which contains many parallels to quantum physics in the way it introduces the basic ideas of spiritual duality – heaven and earth, transcendent and immanent. For example, in Zen, there are two domains of reality – emptiness and form – thus the Zen axiom: “Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form.”

The wave-particle duality of quantum physics recognizes two similar domains – potentiality and actuality. Likewise, consciousness plays a role in both realms in quantum physics as it does in Zen, as shown in this parable:

Two monks are arguing. One says, “The flag is moving.” The other says, “No, the wind is moving.” A master, passing by, admonishes them both: “The flag is not moving; the wind is not moving. Your mind is moving.”
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~ ॐ ~ Sambodhi Padmasamadhi ~ ∞ ~

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