Suffering Written in Light (by Carson Willis) – Photo: DJK – 2019

The Scientist and the Buddhist

Seen through the eyes is the world

The senses of the body

The observation of phenomena

The inner, thought and feeling, a felt sense arises within

The external, the physical body, matter and the cosmos

The Scientist and the Buddhist

The philosophers of scientific thought

learning of the Buddhas simple quantum perspective

the world to its ends

Total knowledge of the most real, all realities,

the internal and the external are what is arrived at

All routes of true wisdom and knowledge

of the ontological most real

arrive at the same understanding

There is a way things are

Bodies and minds dance and sing on top of the earth

and there is a way things are

Political systems rise and fall

and there is a way things are

Empires and corporations force control on the Earth

and there is a way things are

Stories are told that shape minds and bodies and potential

and there is a way things are

the greatest deceptions envelope the mind, bending the way untill somthing snaps

catastrophes of earth, weather, humanity and all living beings

like shiva, an agent of grand destruction to restore balance to all that man arranges as his empire

people drive themselves crazy trying to change how things are

but the way cannot be changed

Impressive arching bridges are built that curve just outside of reality

and there, the form gods, stand on mighty pillars

and walk across walk ways suspended in the sky

and call them a sure path

and they are a path, as sure they are to crumble

The Way, no simple highway

The seekers truth, walk the earth

The grand illusionists gamble with formations

In an environment filled with objects, and the structures of man

They are one in the same, for the earth has been changed by humans

along The Way

Suffering is great because of this

The way of the great earthly garden has been paved upon

and the reality of now is the internal and external

the effect of what humans have done to the earth

The Way remains quantum and transient, etheral and ambient

the earth remains as a living system, the effects of lordman, long lasting on its biological beings

Floating through walls and countrysides

the ghosts of human presence, the natural nonself wrestles with internal holograms of feeling form

paths of creation and objects like quantum tunnels through the mind

The clarity of being, of how earth is

of how people are, of how the mind is

where does it go so often that

the mind is plagued by distractions

the want of more is forced upon us all

by gods if not by men, by the universe if not by earth

the simplest way, just a few tetris blocks away from a portal to moments of actuality

the river of the mind still flows

the humans are tending to it, removing the debris that obstucts its pure flow

Negotiating way with the form gods, knowing the river, knowing the formation kingdom

the words are battlesome, making way amongst the development plans and business arrangements

battle-some

Arjunas oldest storyline and the scientific triumph over the shackles of natures binding forces

Is it an engineered path, the 3/4’s way?

the Anthropocenes modern mind?

The creator of form, making formations to remind oneself of clarity, when none is to be found

building worded worlds of awe, mysteriously reaching towards truth

and building with scraps of what is remembered as true clarity

the making of ones mind,

inquiries, observation, motion

structures, buildings, empires

thoughts, words, and stories

To create ones self when no creation of self is vital of spirit and mind

An internal avatar, a formation of “I”, spans across the minds and individuals

the I’s and Nonself of perception and feeling

environmental spontaneity breaks one free from stagnate patterns

Patterns built into the body, into routine and the environment

the formation is not that which is arrived at but a means of arrival, a boat, a raft

The Buddhist does not arrive at enlightenment simply by means of ancient scripture

The Scientist, does not arrive at complete and total knowledge via the computer, incremental measurements and designed systems

The Buddhist seeing within

internal focus, applying and sustaining thought,

letting go, wisdom, space, emptiness, nothingness

The scientist, numbers, data, external focus, and the intellect

matter, motion and the cosmic bodies

applying and sustaining thought, observation and analysis

strong concentrated minds maintaining mental vitality

examining the same universe, the same earth-body-mind,

the same body flesh and bones,

The same feeling and matter

and illusions

the same form

is composed about experience

the same nature of things

composure, technique, facts and form

about truths

and the arising of truth itself

form is not experience itself

but form is experienced

the fire, the object and shadow it casts on the cave wall

the form of each elemental phenomenea perceived by the human mind

a dependent arising of mind and matter

the experience is relational, individual and whole at the same time

convincing a moment into being

is subjected to the universes tides of truth

the washing away of words and form

by all that is beyond form and perception

beauty

a measure of realness

and truth

should it arise

is that which the Buddha and the Scientist agree upon