Chapter 169: Born From Nothingness
After drinking a few sips of tea and smoking a cigarette.
The boy coughed for a while. Don’t misunderstand this, this guy was expelling smoke. Recently, I don’t know which group of Bodhisattvas has been missing the boy, hoping for his good health. Then, after the boy’s internal energy sensed it, his lower abdomen instinctively exerted force to expel it.
The boy rested for a moment and then began to organize his wisdom that coexisted between scientific theories and cultivation practices.
As the saying goes, all things in the world are born from existence, and existence is born from non-existence.
The first phrase, “born from existence,” is similar to saying, where do people come from? They are born from people; this is called being born from existence, born from existing people.
“Existence is born from non-existence” speaks of where all things come from. That is, where does everything in the material world come from? It comes from nothingness.
This “nothingness” does not mean absence, just like the Qi mentioned earlier. It is all unseen energy, or energy waves.
From the perspective of Buddhist wisdom, it is called a single thought, meaning that sentient beings are born from a single thought.
From a scientific perspective, it means that in this space, there are various kinds of energies that exist in the form of waves, which can be called energy waves.
There are rectangular waves, triangular waves, and trapezoidal waves, all sorts of complex energy waves. They share a commonality: they are all superimposed from the simplest sine waves. Different amplitude and different frequency sine waves can be superimposed to form any waveform.
A sine wave is like this symbol; ~
It looks a bit like a wavy line. In trigonometry, there is a function called the sinX function, also called the sine function, or sine wave. The sine wave is the simplest description of everything that exists in the universe.
When scientists study elementary particles, the quarks, the God particle, and so on, they are actually intermediate forms presented by the interference of energy waves. Their essence is all sine waves; ~
This sine wave is called a single thought in Buddhist wisdom, also known as “one thought, one sentient being,” meaning all sentient beings are born from this single thought. Because before this sine wave existed, nothing existed. When this sine wave appeared, everything existed and was activated.
Therefore, what is called sentient beings is this single thought, and the universe in Buddhist culture is born from a single thought.
In Daoist thought, this sine wave is also called Yin and Yang. It’s similar to the line in the middle of the Tai Chi symbol, （~）
The one above is called Yin, and the one below is called Yang, or the one above can be called Yang, and the one below Yin. It refers to the position of the sine wave’s undulation; they are mutually Yin and Yang.
This sine wave expresses Yin and Yang, which is the original Tai Chi. Therefore, there is a saying in Daoist thought: “Model after Yin and Yang, and harmonize with numerology.”
“Model after Yin and Yang” means that the most basic initial state of all existence is Yin and Yang, which is the sine wave. “Harmonize with numerology” refers to the same frequency resonance of the sine wave.
Because all existence manifests and happens due to the same frequency resonance of energy waves.
In other words, everything in our material world is produced by the resonance of energy waves; thoughts, matter, all of it. This is what I call Qi.
Qi includes sine waves and all energy states.
This might be a bit too complicated. Simply put, in science, Buddhism, and Daoist studies, the origin and annihilation principles of all things are the same. Science calls it a sine wave, Buddhism calls it a single thought, and Daoism calls it Yin and Yang.
What is called “Dao gives birth to one” is a unit of a sine wave. “One gives birth to two” is the Yin and Yang of this sine wave. In terms of cultivating the heart, it can be called good and evil, good and bad, right and wrong, positive and negative.
Cultivating the Dao to “one” is to return to the state of the line in the middle of the Tai Chi. This is also why humans are a mixture of good and evil, both Buddha and demon.
Cultivating the Dao along this line can reverse the power of Yin and Yang. Good thoughts can turn into evil, evil thoughts can turn into good, good deeds can turn bad, and bad deeds can turn good. The principle of the mind transforming the environment also lies here. After reaching a certain realm of cultivation, one can actively change their thoughts for this reason.
The mutual transformation of good and evil thoughts is the mutual transformation of Yin and Yang. All laws are within this pattern. The ups and downs of luck, the mood, the alternation of day and night, impermanence and constancy, the root cause lies here.
For example, I am an energy wave, and I twist myself to adjust to the positive direction. On this positive side, I pull you along, and you turn towards the positive direction.
For those with negative energy, you will be pulled towards the negative direction.
Or, for someone who doesn’t understand, when you think it’s the positive direction, they are confused and don’t understand themselves. As you follow along, when Yin and Yang reverse, they won’t notice and will go from positive to negative.
This is what is said in cultivation: one wrong step leads to eternal damnation. Trying to cultivate Buddhism but ending up acting like a demon, unable to even speak properly.
Not spewing out a bunch of fancy words, but acting foolishly, imposing your beliefs on others, telling them something is bad, cursing them to go to hell, asking you to spend money to burn incense and pray for blessings, making you muddle-headed from reciting sutras without understanding anything. These are all illusions of personal will.
Those who believe without proof, though they do not fall into bad karma, abide in cause, abide in effect, abide in thought, abide in mind; thus they are born and die, and do not attain Nirvana.
You believe that praying to gods and Buddhas can protect you, and that doing good deeds will bring good retribution, while doing bad deeds will send you to hell. Therefore, you refrain from doing evil. This can prevent you from falling into bad karma.
However, you fundamentally do not understand why. You have not sought proof, nor have you thought about it or researched it. You only want to obtain benefits, obtain good fortune, and attain Buddhahood. This is the cause. Precisely because of this cause, you are seeking. This is also your desire. You fix your mind on this desire, and you are still within the form, still not cultivating, and even less able to attain Buddhahood.
Because that is fundamentally not cultivating Buddhism.
The Diamond Sutra clearly states: “If you see me by form, if you seek me by sound, this person is walking the evil path and cannot see the Tathagata.”
Translating this into plain language: If you see Buddhas as gods, and hope to gain something from them, you are on the wrong path and cannot attain enlightenment.
The method of enlightenment is: “If you see all forms as non-forms, you will see the Tathagata.”
This means that if you see forms as non-forms, you are an enlightened person. Non-form means formless, formless means emptiness. Emptiness means that when a person does not look at issues from their own perspective, it is called emptiness. More simply, it means to remove the perspective of “I think,” “I believe,” “I feel,” etc., and to look without any fixed standpoint. That is emptiness, selflessness.
This is breaking illusions, attaining enlightenment, and the beginning of entering the gate of cultivating immortality.
Oh my goodness, I need a break. I’ve been writing this chapter for several hours…
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I’ve said it all to this point. If you still can’t break through, I truly have no other way.
Some people believe whatever they see, whatever they hear. They spend money to learn, and in the end, they spend a lot of money but learn nothing.
Then you think it’s because you’re stupid or have poor comprehension, and you’ve been completely deceived, and all your money has been taken.
As the old saying goes:
“The poor calculate their destiny, the rich burn incense; confused, they ask about Yin and Yang. If one does what is within their capacity, why need ghosts and gods to provide a solution?”
“Ten people burn incense, nine for wealth. Actually, wealth comes from kindness. If one has virtue, heaven will protect them. Acting kindly without seeking rewards will bring blessings.”
The first line means: When you have no money, you should study the trajectory and patterns of destiny and calculate. When you have money, don’t forget your roots; don’t abandon kindness and compassion.
The second line means: When you are confused and don’t understand anything, try to think about things in reverse.
The meaning of the third and fourth lines is: Become the best version of yourself; you don’t need to seek external help from ghosts and gods.
The last four lines say that worldly desires are strong, and more people who burn incense and pray to Buddha do so for wealth or other needs. However, you don’t need to do that. You just need to be a sufficiently kind and good person, a person of virtue, and then heaven will guide you, following the laws of heaven. With a kind heart and good thoughts, you will have good fortune.
Here’s an addition: this kind heart and good thoughts should not be viewed from a personal perspective. Many attempts will backfire, good intentions will lead to bad deeds, good intentions will cause trouble, and good intentions will lead to wrong words.
You must set your heart straight, not look at things from your own perspective. Kindness seen after understanding the essence is true kindness~!
That’s it~! Sigh…, all this explaining to this boy.
