The quantum world of the Buddha

If we wish to learn about the so-called quantum world which is the basis of material things we have to look in the direction of what transcends all materiality which is a spiritual reality.  The basis of particles like electrons, protons, or atoms, for example, is immaterial and non-particulate.  Nothing is localized in this quantum world.  

The so-called quantum world is made up of quantum waves which are indefinite and infinitely spread out.  These waves can be thought of as interference patterns.  But nothing determinate or particulate.  In this wavy world lies the potential for our everyday world which is not yet born and certainly, not annihilated.  We might add to this and say this wavy world is empty of mass and energy.  If we had to be more precise as to what it is, all that we can say is it is a kind of raw, vital information.

This quantum world the Buddha would recognize and much more in which, to quote Max Planck, Spirit is the matrix of all matter.  His teaching would turn to the quantum world, pointing the way to nirvana.  In contrast to this, the Buddha would recognize our modern, material world to be non-spiritual—a world alien to sentiency; a world that does not care; a world that appears to be one of strict determinism in which spirit is of no use and death is final. 

Our modern world is still quite primitive.  Even though the quantum view of the world has basically overthrown the Newtonian world of classical physics and has undermined its morality that brought us the Holocaust, we still haven't managed to grasp the implications of such a world; we still continue to look at Buddhism through the tunnel vision of Newtonian mechanics and the morality that it inspired.

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