Emptiness and quantum physics
Topics Include: 1) The relationship between Buddhism and quantum physics: understanding the scientific truth of the Dharma; 2) The evolution of the teaching of non-self to the teaching of emptiness; 3) The relationship between the teaching of emptiness and modern quantum physics; 4) Albert Einstein on the relationship between science and Buddhism; 5) Understanding emptiness or sunyatta: the law of interdependence ; 6) How ignorance creates suffering in our lives; 7) Quantum physics: wave/particle duality, the observer effect, and the collapse of the wave function; 8) The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, quantum entanglement, and quantum field theory; 9) What is the nature of illusion? 10) The remarkable connection between Buddhism and science: bringing a sense of morality and ethics into our understanding of reality.
31, May 2025
EMPTINESS AND QUANTUM PHYSICS (Part 2)
Topics Include: 1) Evolution of the series on non-self to the series on Emptiness or Sunyatta and Quantum Physics; 2) The importance in spirituality of truth: the truth of how things actually are, not beliefs or faith; 3) The definition of Emptiness or Sunyatta; 4) The truth of interdependence; 5) Quantum physics as opposed to classical physics: wave particle duality; the observer effect; the uncertainty principle; quantum entanglement; quantum field theory; and the observer effect; 6) In Buddhism, why we don’t see the world as it truly is; 7) The central importance of interdependence; 8) The importance of the observer effect; 9) Learning how to see our experience as it really is: the role of mindfulness.
14 June, 2025
EMPTINESS AND QUANTUM PHYSICS (Part 3)
Topics Include: 1) The relationship between Buddhism and science; 2) Review of emptiness or sunyatta in Buddhism; 3) Review of quantum physics: wave/particle duality; the observer effect; quantum entanglement; and quantum field theory; 4) Understanding interdependence; 5) The observer effect; 6) Practical implications of the convergence of Buddhism and quantum physics; 7) How we don’t see reality as it truly is; 8) What is consciousness? The two kinds of consciousness in Buddhism; 9) Finding absolute reality in meditation; 10) Finding the final link between Buddhism and quantum physics.
21 June, 2025