Wednesday, September 19, 2018

MAYA: The Physics of Deception (video)

NeuralSurfer, June 5, 2012; Rupert Spira; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

In this film Professor David Christopher Lane (Mt. San Antonio College, CSULB) explains how the ancient Indian philosophical concept of maya (lit. "not that" or more popularly understood as "illusion") permeates our everyday life and world.

By focusing on how neuroscience intersects with physics, we can begin to appreciate that the world we see around us BETRAYS its real origin in unexpected twists and turns.

(Rupert Spira) Maya stays, ignorance goes = Enlightenment
 
Science is perhaps the second most successful method (behind direct intuition) to reorient ourselves to stop grasping illusory concepts of the universe. Instead, it can help us in ways that defy our normal "common sense" expectations to see things as they really are.

How are they? Buddhism ("Awakenism") points out The Way to wake up and directly see the world, the universe, and ourselves for the way these things really are. It's "empty."

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