12/11/2022
Buddhism has been founded by Sakyamuni over 2500 years ago. He was a prince who enjoyed a carefree life in his palace. He saw human suffering and started to think about why pain is eternal, but happiness is temporary, like getting old and going to die, and how to escape from the suffering sea. On a moonlight night, Sakyamuni left the palace and went to the forest for penance. Six years later, Sakyamuni had reached the full awakening and became a fully enlightened Buddha under a banyan tree. Then he spent 46 years spreading Buddhism in India until his nirvana at age 80. The meaning of Buddhism is “the education of being a Buddha”. The Buddhist doctrine is to teach people how to get rid of the pain of sickness, senility, and death, and reach real worry-free happiness.
“Buddha” is a transliteration of “awakening people” in Sanskrit. Every person is the master of their life. No one can push people to hell, and no one can let people into heaven. All the things of a person, no matter wealth or poverty, are the result of their “Karma”. Karma is the current result of what a soul did in all its life circles. People’s achievements are contributed by their efforts and intelligence. The essence of life is pain. The young body, beautiful look, glory, etc., all of these are temporary. Everyone is getting old and going to die from birth. Nobody can bring any penny when life is gone. Doing good deeds on a daily basis is an approach to relieving your agony and lifting your souls.
Buddhism and the science of physic are living together in harmony. Another essence of life, or the physical world, is impermanence. Nothing is eternal, from the micro world, like a microparticle, to the universe (s). Quantum physics partly confirmed this, though science is also changing. Sakyamuni said, “one flower is a universe”, “emptiness is existence, and existence is emptiness” over 2500 years ago. Today, people know one atom consists of one proton and two neutrons. On the meta-microscale, a proton might be shown as an 11-dimensional structure. That means it might be more complicated than our macro universe, and intelligent creatures might exist there. In this way, “one flower is a composition of countless micro universes”. The proton and neutron consist of quarks. Quark, electron, muon, tauon, etc., are called fermion, the fundamental particles of the physical world. Bosons assemble fermions. In String Theory, the fundamental particles are infinitesimal vibrating strings. The strings, which have different vibrating frequencies from different fundamental particles. What’s the made of these infinitesimal vibrating strings? The answer is space, which is twisted in infinitesimal microscale. Our bodies, planets, stars, etc., are composed of empty space. In other words, matter consists of space. “Emptiness is existence, and existence is emptiness”.
In quarks’ world, time does not exist. The existence of fundamental particles is beyond time. They were created in the big bang and will die with our universe. The full length of our universe is like a tape. Everything in the future had happened in the past. Our lives are the clips in this long tape. The fundamental particles are like elves, dancing in the stages of past, present, and future at the same time. They even broke the limitation of dimensions. For example, someone is talking with an intelligent creature, Ms. Flat, from a two-dimensional world, such as the table surface. This person put the left hand on the table, and asked Ms. Flat, “How do I look like?” Ms. Flat walked around this hand and answered, “you have one center and five branches.” Then this person explained I’m very huge in my three-dimensional world, but Ms. Flat argued “No way. I’ve touched every corner of you. You five-branch monster!” For the same reason, we can touch every corner of the items in our world, and we can hold the small items between our hands, then affirmed “this is a rectangle shape smartphone”, or “this is a ring-like donut". However, in a four-dimensional world, the cellphone and donut might have a different and huge shape.
In Buddhist doctrine, samsara is the truth of all the lives. Samsara is like a wheel of life, all the lives are spinning in this wheel until they become Buddhas. Buddhist cosmology typically identifies six realms of this life circle: gods, humans, asura, animals, hungry ghosts, and hell. These six realms are typically divided into three higher realms and three lower realms. The three higher realms are the realms of the gods, humans, and asura; the three lower realms are the realms of the animals, hungry ghosts, and hell. The first level of the life circle is gods, which is the most pleasure-filled among the six realms. The second level is our world. In the third level, asura, people are killing others or killed by others every day. So, this level has deemed the people who are living in the areas of war. The fourth level is animals. Due to their low intelligence, animals have to bear the bullying of advanced creatures. The fifth level is hungry ghosts. They live here as beings who are extremely thirsty and hungry, with very small mouths but very large stomachs. The most horrible level is hell. All the evildoers would fall to this level after death.
Who decides which level will you go? The answer is nobody. Only people’s own Karma can judge their lives after death. Thus, being a good person and practicing Buddha dharma is the right way to go to gods level, or jump out from the life circle to eternal happiness.
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