Where Science and Buddhism Meet

Buddha said that reality was a manifestation of mind, very similar if not exactly like a dream. Mind creates reality, this is what he called the true nature of reality, or emptiness. Nothing exists separate from the mind. "Reality" is an illusion of mind. Science has found that: 1. Unless being observed reality exists in superposition, or infinite possibility, its not until things are observed that they become "material"ized. There's an inseparable tie between mind and matter. 2. Particles flash in and out of existence from a void. We don't know where they come from or where they go, and we can only predict where they might arise. 3. We cannot know a particles position and velocity at the same time. 4. Atoms consist of 99.9999 empty space. 5. Particles simultaneously exist as waves. The wave/particle duality. These all point to a very illusory nature to reality.

How can you *flash* in to existence and out of existence? Particles disappear and reappear in rapid succession, our mind is what "solidifies" and "smooths" out reality. Similar to how our mind turns a movie (many single pictures) into on free flowing series of events. Its not nothingness, but its infinite possibility, "reappearing" randomly when measured, it can be better understood as non material potential. Material reality is a construct of the mind, nothing ever exists or ceases to exist. This is what quantum physics has told us, its very counterintuitive, but nevertheless, is the true nature of our reality.

Video created by Gerald Penilla