Posts Tagged ‘Awareness’

383. Stop the stream valiantly, drive away the desires, O Brahmana!
When you have understood the destruction of all that was made, you
will understand that which was not made.

384. If the Brahmana has reached the other shore in both laws (in
restraint and contemplation), all bonds vanish from him who has
obtained knowledge.
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256, 257. A man is not just if he carries a matter by violence; no, he
who distinguishes both right and wrong, who is learned and leads
others, not by violence, but by law and equity, and who is guarded by
the law and intelligent, he is called just.

258. A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient,
free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.
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179. He whose conquest is not conquered again, into whose conquest no
one in this world enters, by what track can you lead him, the
Awakened, the Omniscient, the trackless?

180. He whom no desire with its snares and poisons can lead astray, by
what track can you lead him, the Awakened, the Omniscient, the
trackless?
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146. How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always
burning? Why do you not seek a light, ye who are surrounded by
darkness?

147. Look at this dressed-up lump, covered with wounds, joined
together, sickly, full of many thoughts, which has no strength, no
hold!
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“Immersed in clear waters,
we suffer thirst”
Dino Olivieri

Many scientist have explored the similarities between physics and oriental philosophies.
Fritjof Capra has written an interesting book: The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism.

One of the main ideas proposed by this book is about the so called “Holographic paradigm”.

The holographic paradigm is a theory based on the work of David Bohm and Karl Pribram and extrapolated from two ideas:

• That the universe is in some sense a holographic structure, proposed by David Bohm
• That consciousness is dependent on holographic structure, proposed by Karl Pribram

This paradigm posits that theories using holographic structures may lead to a unified understanding of consciousness and the universe.

One of the main points of this paradigm is about memory. Memory, and so consciousness, is not stored in single pieces of this universe.
Many scientific experiments shows that memory patterns, as in DNA RNA, human and animal mind, chemical properties and reactions, physical laws, are similar to intersections of many wave fronts that permeates the whole.

So what we think about the world, in the sense of real world, is just an illusion. There is not solid thing, 3 dimensional space and time.
There is a whole constituted by infinite waves (or strings if you like) that are playing together, in dynamic series of movements in this ever changing eternal present.

So our body, our mind and our consciousness are reflections, images and holograms of the real world we can not experience directly.

This idea seems crazy and strange, we are living, made of and experiencing an illusory level of reality, but latest experiments in physics and the best candidates as theories of the whole are figuring this scenario.

Some author simplify this idea suggesting that we are living in something similar to Matrix (the result of universal computer), but the real world is a little bit more complicated. Tao and Zen, are suggesting, more wisely, that we are only part of the whole and patterns capable to see and understand themselves in the mirror.
Tao, in particular, says that the whole is the only interesting thing, a cup full of energy in eternal movement. Scientifically: an ocean of interacting waves/strings/branes from which emerges levels and levels of sub realms.
We are living in one of them and we can just imagine how big is the real whole.

Dino Olivieri

“Just as water cools both good and bad and washes away all impurity and dust, in the same way you should develop thoughts of love for friend and foe alike, and having reached perfection in love, you will attain enlightenment”
Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha

“He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”
Lao Tzu

One day a young man asked to an old wise man which was the key to happiness.
The old man smiled, the wrinkles on his face corrugated for a lot of fun. Then he looked into the eyes of the young man, and he said: “The Gratitude, my son”.
The young man did not understand and so he asked, “Gratitude?”
“Sure”, the old man said, adding: “If you are not able to feel deep gratitude for every little precious gift that the universe makes you constantly, you will live only in the pain and suffering and you can never know happiness”.
The old man stood still a moment in silence and then said: “There is no awareness without gratitude, because it is not only a thought but also a feeling”.
The young man found enlightenment in those words. He embraced the old wise man and so he said: “Thank You”.

My daughter, my son.
Traveling, look in the eyes of foreigners, listen and learn their languages, walks in their shoes, open your eyes and your understanding to each new horizon in front of you.
When you’ve seen a lot of what you consider outside of yourself, then you will have the knowledge that everyone is the whole universe.
Dino Olivieri