Tuesday, April 09, 2019

Suchness and Original Sin

Hmmm, if my last post is true, then the age-old question of "What is suchness?" (in the Buddhist sense) has an answer: it's spacetime.

One may as a human being be able to experience spacetime mostly by feedback from the senses but actual "suchness" is just spacetime, which is consciousness itself albeit with wrinkles in it (ie, matter-energy). So we're like wrinkles trying to become aware of the smooth part of the cloth and saying "Gee, we were all smooth like that once..." This suggests pantheism is true also if you define "God" as being infinite and as spacetime itself in its infinite consciousness.

The quest for "enlightenment" is an effort on the part of wrinkles to smooth themselves out. The Original Sin in Buddhism then would be the Big Bang when one big wrinkle in spacetime suddenly appeared. Why though it did so not even Buddha could answer. That big wrinkle broke up into many smaller wrinkles some of which congealed to form stuff.

If the foregoing then is true it makes a lot of weird mysterious crap in Buddhism as well as in quantum physics suddenly a lot more sensible.

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