Rationale for the Reason

[Vajradhara]

Namaste Sacredstar,

thank you for the post.

Well if you are ever blessed with the ability to see/talk with Buddha yourself I am sure he will help you to understand.

i see. so when i speak to him i'll understad his teachings like you do? thanks, but i think that i would rather learn the teachings properly instead of imputing my own desires and thoughts into the Dharma and thinking that i'm practicing. this is one of the reasons why teachers are important in our tradition.

His language can not be understood with reasoning and intellectual mind but with a loving heart, not bothering whether it is true or not.

this is not correct within the Buddha Dharma. one is enjoined to study and understand the Abidharma. the Buddha clearly states that we must test his teachings for ourselves to see if they make sense and are condusive to the good of all beings. we must analyze them rational and apply the tests for ourselves.

besides which, hearts don't understand words. consciousnesses do.

And a moment comes suddenly the light goes on and that which as eluded you your whole life, suddenly what Gautum Buddha called 'eighty-four thousand doors' open.

do you suppose that you could find any support for your assertion in the teachings themselves?

the 84,000 Dharma Doors is a metaphor based on a standard understanding of the number 84,000 that was prevelant in Buddhas time. generally speaking, it's a symbolic number to represent the individual and unique characteristics inherent in beings.

in any case... back to the regularly scheduled discussion....

 

[Vajradhara]

Kindest Regards, Vajradhara!

Thank you most sincerely for the clarification!

It is great to finally have a simpified explanation. I do recall reading in one of the science magazines some years back that two of the forces, neither of which was gravity, had been integrated into one, at least in one model. Perhaps that model has since been discarded?

Even so, does electromagnetism not show electricity to be among the fundamental components of material existence? I would think this to be in line with the concept of Chi.

BTW, may I presume you have no major objections to my presentation here concerning Yin/Yang and Chi?

Namaste Juan,

nice to hear from you.

last things first....

there's nothing you've posted that i strongly disagree with, though i suppose that i could add a bit to the technical side of the discussion, i happen to think that would be counter-productive in the general discourse.

the Strong and Weak force has been integrated into a single "Nuclear force" which is then divided into strong or weak, depending on what you are talking about

complex things explained simply is, for my money, a mark of artistry and genius, which is why my explanations are long, rambing, barely coherent sentence structures

 

[Sacredstar]

a response from a scientist David Hamilton Phd from Glasgow University.

'There is much science that implies truth in your statement, but none that has directly measured it. By implied I mean that some quantum physicists hold that all matter condenses from a field of energy, called the quantum field (Einstein actually wrote: "All matter exists at points in space and time where the Field is extremely intense, but the field is the only reality"). Other quantum physicists extend it to agree with the eastern mystical view that this field is intelligent, since we are consious beings. The science of psychoneuroimmunology has proven that thoughts affect the human body....in fact pschosocial genomics research has gone as far as to prove that it affects gene expression of DNA. This proves that thoughts / emotions / intentions are affecting the field since all biological matter has condensed from the field. Couple this with Carl Jung's idea of the collective consciousness and you can imply that our collective thoughts / feelings / intentions have worldwide biological consequences so also worldly consequences in the nature of events.

Collective balance and imbalance is therefore reflected in the nature of world events. Therefore your statement that physical reality is the barometer of balance versus imbalance is implied by science."