Kampala, Uganda....don't get stuck in a traffic jam there, you'll be there for days...
Loreto, Baja California, Mexico....wonderful remote town by the Sea of Cortez
Mastuj, North West Territories, Pakistan....very remote British Hill fort town on the northern border of Pakistan. You feel undressed without a Kalashnikov over your shoulder...
I've been fortunate enough to have visited these three places.
There is a strong correlation between quantum physics and Buddhism. The more you look into the similarities, the more apparent it becomes. Unfortunately, the more you look into quantum physics and Buddhism, the less clear they become...
Buddhism, Quantum Physics and Mind
Convergence of Physics with Buddhist Philosophy One of the interesting aspects of quantum physics from the Buddhist point of view is that particles, which in classical physics were once regarded as little pieces of matter, are now regarded as processes consisting of continuously evolving and changing wavefunctions. These processes only give the appearance of discrete and localized particles at the moment they are observed.
So particles are forever changing, and lack any inherent existence independent of the act of observation. Consequently, everything composed of particles is also impermanent and continually changing, and no static, stable basis for its existence can be found.
Therefore, at a very generalized level, the scientific view of the world has converged with the Buddhist view. Buddhism is a 'process philosophy', holding that the underlying basis of reality is change, process and impermanence. Becoming is more basic than being, and existence is really just impermanence in slow-motion.
The converse view is substantialism, which holds that constant realities or substances underlie phenomena. In the transition from classical to modern physics, atomic theory has changed from substantialism to being in agreement with the Buddhist process view of reality.
Furthermore, when we look at the interaction of the wave-particles with the observer, we find additional interesting correspondences between Buddhist philosophy and quantum physics.
So how does quantum reality fit with Buddhist Philosophy?
The two aspects of Buddhist philosophy that are relevant to observations at the quantum level are The Four Seals of Dharma and the Three Modes of Existential Dependence. These teachings were established centuries ago, long before modern physics evolved, and were derived from careful philosophical and meditational analysis of the world. However their description of quantum reality is remarkably accurate, as they predicted that:
(1) Particles are not inherently existent. No particle is 'a thing in itself' with a self-contained identity. An inherently-existent particle would be indestructible, unitary and indivisible.
(2) Particles are not causeless.
(3) Particles are not partless, they do not exist as indivisible points.
(4) Particles are not 'permanent' in the sense of having a unchanging, static identity.
(5) Particles exist by interaction with the mind of an observer.
Would the animal lover point in the right direction when asked by the hunt, " which way did the fox go?" I think not. His intent would be to save the fox and send the hunt in the wrong direction, free from any guilt in his lie.
Sometimes, for the benefit and wellbeing of others, it can be better to be economical with the truth. To tell a lie to benefit yourself is quite different than to tell a lie for the benefit of an other. It's all a matter of intent.
A father and son went fishing one day. While they were out in the boat, the boy suddenly became curious about the world around him. He asked his father, "How does this boat float? The father replied, "Don't rightly know son." A little later, the boy looked at his father and asked, "How do fish breath underwater?" Once again the father replied, "Don't rightly know son." A little later the boy asked his father, "Why is the sky blue?" Again, the father replied. "Don't rightly know son." Finally, the boy asked his father, "Dad, do you mind my asking you all of these questions?" The father replied, "Of course not, you don't ask questions, you never learn nothin'."
Contrary to what many people believe, the 'Great' in Great Britain was nothing to do with its standing, it was to do with its size. It was a greater size than Brittany.
We here the phrase a ' trillion dollars' used quite often. But just to get an idea of just how much a trillion dollars really is. . If you were to count a trillion dollars at the rate of one per second, it would take a ming boggling thirty one thousand, six hundred and eighty three years.
Did you know Maine is the only State with one syllable in its name. Just thought I'd mention that....
Spent a few months in Connecticut and a short while in California. I found California a lot more agreeable than CT. I'd love to visit more States, especially after reading Bill Bryson's The Lost continent-Travels in Small Town America and Notes From a Big Country.
"Over on the forums, LeeCharming states, "A am the one and only". When you haven't mastered your native language, it sort of diminishes any self-professed claims of high intelligence. Still, it's comforting to know, there's only one of him."
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..I'll have try again.
RE: Anyplace in America A-Z
Bodie, California.Now a ghost town, onice a boom town after the discovery of gold.in 1876.