This paper was written for the ‘Buddhism and Australia Conference’ in February 2021:
During this void, the particles of space subsist, and from these particles the new universe will be formed. It is in these particles of space that we find the fundamental con-substantial cause of the entire physical world.
If we wish to describe the formation of the universe and the physical bodies of beings, all we need do is analyse and comprehend the way in which the natural potential of different chemical and other elements constituting that universe was able to take shape from these space particles.
It is on the bases of the specific potential of those particles that the structure of this universe and of the bodies of the beings present therein have come about.”
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The Buddhist concept of a ‘space-particle’ was a welcome confirmation of my conviction that space is granular as I had experienced it myself and as it had later emerged from a natural number logic and geometry I had developed that suited ‘discovery’ of resonances.
In my unique peak-experience I realized that space and matter were different appearances of the same stuff, it was all one sparkling energy field, it was all light, in essence. There was no separation between things and space, it was one field of appearance and experience breezing with light.
‘How am I ever going to put this into words’, I thought to myself, then… And what you are going to read here now in this study is a first full-out attempt to put this ‘truth’ I experienced into an utterly profound insight put into a suitable language and create hopefully a more comprehensive and transparent exhibition of the whole.
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Space particle ( -pixall)
As cited above the Dalai Lama expects that study of the ‘aethereal’ space-particle will reveal how the whole world has come about.
My tentative contribution to the study of space-particles seeks to give them a logical and mathematical basis as the substance of reality and to show that the sphere and the horn-torus, both fundamental physical perfect shapes, that they can form the conceptual bridge between the physical and the mental, which we must cross if we want to preserve ‘Oneness’, as the all encompassing benchmark of our theories and worldview; a paradigm.
The sphere and the horn-torus are both extremes of the different space and surface area in 2-D and 3-D space. In 2-D the sphere is a flat circle area, in 2-D mysteriously the concave and convex area reduces to a perfect square.
The Oneness creates the awareness and in awareness all hangs together in resonances of standing waves in materialization , in growth and in destruction.
It won’t do to say that matter is a fabrication of mind, because it does not solve the continuity of Nature in the space-particles as outlined by the Lama. Here we touch on the ‘Unborn‘ as the source without beginning, without origin. It is the resonance in our brain that was built out of resonances with the the living earth. That is what we are made of and return to.
The concept of the Unborn as the unfathomable ground of all, is already present in the Rigveda where it says: The Unborn upholds Earth, the Unborn supports Heaven. Katha Upanishad: ‘The soul is unborn, eternal, permanent’ and Krishna says: ‘I am unborn, I am imperishable’.
In Buddhism Unborn is ‘An-utpada’, which means ‘without-origin’ and is used equivalently with ‘Sunyata’ or Emptiness, the central teaching.
The aethereal space-particle is what ‘subsists’ and out of which a new universe is formed, so our interest is in how these aethereal particles constitute the ‘substance’ of the world and, as I will argue, how they produce awareness by resonances that spring from the unity of it all.
In the oneness is the overall integration of all awareness, By ‘sheer existing’ atoms express awareness of a niche in Nature.
the Concord of the One is the Awareness of the World
The oneness reveals itself in the primal awareness, as such, and has a strong physical aspect in its interferences in the world, from tectonic plates to moon orbits. This all happens rising from the Unborn.
I use Oneness as a primal postulate in the ultimate state of the natural laws because all mystical traditions mention the revelation of the One (-ness) as the core of spiritual transformation in experiencing Reality, so it is a most inspirational approach to science., where scientists may overlook viewpoints, because they associate them with something ‘obsolete’, like the ‘Aether theory’. (In full it was called ‘luminiferous aether’, ‘light-carrying medium’, all-pervading space.) In my model it is more geometrical, still it is the ‘light-bearing aether’, here with the maths of the aether and resonances, concretely: the field of interaction of the sphere (4 . pi . R^2) and the (peculiar) ‘horn-torus’ (4. pi^2 . r^2), That share an equatorial circumference and centre-point. The question is how does the sphere, a circle area in 2-D. relate geometrically with the horn-torus, a square area in 2-D , for instance in area ratio.
Sphere : 4. pi . 2r^2 —– Horn-torus : 4. pi^2 . r^2 -> (r=7) 2464 : 1936 = 14 : 11
Volume 4/3. 22/7. 3^3 Volume : 2 . pi^2 . r^3 -> (r=7) 1437.33 : 6776 = 1 : 4.714286 (=1.5×22/7)
Sphere and horn-torus with identical centre and circumference have a volume ratio of 1,5 Pi exactly stands to 1, which is over 4 times , but surprisingly exact and what a tool 3 . Pi : 2 to remember!
Because the word ‘One’ encompassed ‘everything’ for the ancient Greeks they did not consider 1 a proper number which shows their cosmological conviction as well. In our model we split up the One in infinitely many space-pixalls (-particles) to allow for a ‘deepfield’ and a granular substance of the world and of space as such. The space-pixalls as I call them, must be seen analogue to pixels of a screen, they don’t move, but accommodate the ‘realization’ of the phenomenon as a ‘reality’. It’s only waves constantly transforming the affected pixalls, the medium.
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The Kalachakra aethereal-particle is associated with sound, I learned recently, the space-pixall I have always associated with light, but now I see that my two basic mathematical forms for the geometry of space, the sphere and the horn-torus (donut without hole), allow to symbolize both; the sphere as source of vibration (sound, resonance) and the horn-torus as the source of energy (light, radiation) and magnetism.
Space in this cosmology is the transparent state of an aggregate of space-pixalls (picks-all) that form the substance of everything, including space itself. I call it the deep-field, also Ur-field.
Urfield
What is probably original in my approach is that forms move through 3-D space, as do images through 2-D pixel screens. Literally forms then move through the densely packed pixall-substance of the deepfield as electromagnetic and geometric wave configurations. The pixall deepfield is amorphous but no chaos. Every moving object excites the pixalls of the deepfield that exactly comply with the wave field configuration that comes along.
The density of space shows in the infallible rhythms of the wave-fields, innumerable, flawless: that is extreme density! Iron-cast order of the waves, from the tiniest to the cosmic scale. This density concept came to me from the concave and convex surface area of a horn-torus, That surface area (2-D it is an exact square), indicates the structure of space with a surface shrinking to a border-point in the middle, concavity, that is a border-point for the zero-dimension of pure light which is hidden in every space pixall; it is a horn-torus-vortex and at the same time it is expanding to a limit and returning to zero convexity-zero concavity like a torus should. It will be very difficult to prove the scientific viability of this mathematics
This ‘trans-vibration’ of forms means also that forms have no eigen-substance that entities have no eigen-mass, that nothing has persistent self-identity, that everything is in a flux. This is reminiscent of ‘Sunyata‘, emptiness, central to the Buddhist teachings.
What I suspect is that we ourselves are made of space, and that we constantly move as waves in the medium of space in which we have our being. We borrow our mass, our body, from the deepfield of space-pixalls, which makes us essentially one with it all. We feel the density of space in our body, no organs no muscles, just dense volume. Solid space. So we know a thing or two about matter and space and density, from experience, we ourselves are ‘spirited matter’, as the rest of Nature is well aware of; like them, we remain a manifestation of the One. Here we find a natural door to animism.
I think this is a transparent way to make intelligible that our substance, our body (the observer), is always at rest relative to light, because our body is part of the unmoving deep-field at any one split-second (like you are sitting at rest in a moving car), the form of our body (in the car), though, is always seemingly moving through an environment together with the car, while you as conscious substance are at rest in your seat in the deep-field. (the pixel screen is always at rest in principle, it can though densify and rarefy, that is plasticity of the deep-field. (at least this is a real explanation of why lightspeed remains the same in any observation, The speed is relative to the deep-field. And all slow going objects (gravity), everyday reality, are in principle at rest in the deep-field, because they experience it as such, especially at home, this holds for most animated animals.
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Photon
Most people probably imagine a photon to be is a light-spot, a ‘persistent spark’ , shining all-around (what else could it do), moving very fast, fastest, of all and also the opposite of darkness. If this scenario would prevail if that were the case we would never be in the shadow, in the dark, because a massive amount of these photons passes us in the night — see the full moon bathing in light, the farthest planets, brilliant in a lens— no, we only see light that is coming our way in rays, by means of waves that light up the excited pixalls-strings as the substance of the local space-medium, the deepfield -the luminiferous aether-. a ray of light is a string of horn-toroidal pixalls, as beads on a string. Because there vortex geometry ceases in the alignment, the pure light is released as a ray in every pixall concerned.
Space-pixall (-grain)
This description solves the wave/particle incoherence, at last as well. The wave pattern is the specific energy/momentum (configuration) that moves through any space-medium (solid, liquid, gaseous, aetherial), affecting , maybe creating, a geometrical cluster of pixalls, that really only exist as a number because they are moving through the pixalls of the deepfield as a quantity of pixalls in configuration. The quantum/particle is the geometric aggregate of affected space-pixalls (certain numbers, maybe) that give substance (mass) to the pixall-particles by standing waves, resonances, while they are also themselves momentum/substance of that specific wave.
To become ‘substantial’ a space-pixall has to be engaged in a wave pattern, as medium, as carrier of light in a geometric configuration. It is not the pixall that moves but the ‘wave pattern’, the ‘configuration’ it carries.
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We experience outer-space as dark, seen from the inside , though from far away our galaxy must look like a blazing star, like we have seen other galaxies as single stars, until also they were penetrated by ingenious lenses.
How come? Being a bright star with a dark heart? An optical illusion? How can this be?. The night sky ‘except for the Milky Way’ is black/ lightless to the naked eye. That naked eye our deep ancestry had to do with in their observations.
I think the‘ invisible light’ that fills the cosmos is hidden to us. It is this massive amount of energy that is the cause of the phenomena we don’t understand. Dark matter is the ‘body of energy’ that is produced by stars, neutron stars (blue), that mosaic of sources energize space and make it seem expanding, whereas it is in fact in a steady state, space expansion is local space creation, possibly after the collapse of a black hole, seen here as the border-point of 4-D space, to the impenetrable zero-dimension of pure light.
The space-pixall carries the light at its core and immediately resonates with the ‘object’ and responds by the appropriate resonances in a 3-D context
Black hole
The black hole is the origin of space contraction. The black hole is a vortex in the fabric of space and can best be imagined as the vortex of a horn-torus. This central point of the toroidal geometry of the black hole is the absolute border-point of universal 4-D space. These black holes are absorbing all the invisible light that structures space. In this view space is sustained by light, for us mostly invisible. the black hole generally is supposed to be the end of a star, it is the collapse of the radiation field of any star and consequently a vortex of obsolete space. Space itself in this view is a process of efflorescence, decay , recovery and re-emergence, I name here ‘permanent creation’ as the driving momentum, the old Chinese principle of ‘Qi’ blends in here as ‘vapor’, ‘air’, ‘breath’ , integrated in the ‘creation’ narrative.
The universe appears dark because we only see light that is coming towards us, the rays that resonate with us; we all have our own rays and fields and resonances. Again, light that passes us by we do not see, only when it is somehow (moon) reflected coming to us; how is that possible with individual cores of light? These simply do not exist, but are suggested by the granularity, the discreetness of space itself. It is the geometry that shapes the interactions of all waves, the myriads of waves, these need a medium to wave in. In this cosmology it would be the natural numbers that sustain the fabric of space. The structured granularity of the space-pixalls can easily be counted, or better, represent a number or configurations of different amounts of engaged pixalls. The pixalls are the medium but also the substance of the passing ‘object’. The pixalls take any shape but it is the electromagnetism that keeps the form in perfect shape.
Contemplation
I analyse these building blocks of reality to form a different picture of space, than the ‘(quantum-!) vacuum’, ‘void’ and ‘nothingness’ parlance of science. Space, not as a container, not as a volume (expanding!), a timespan (curved?), but as an original state, an Ur-state, without physical properties a priori, without limits; eternal, infinite; as the Unborn, an Ur-awareness, which lifts reality beyond any materiality.
The Ur-truth of the One. Where questioning stops and Suchness is embraced.
Any scientific or sceptic question is not relevant anymore.
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Resonance is the key concept for transforming space particles into matter and matter into awareness. Resonance today is a word used in a wide variety of contexts. While from old it was restricted to studies in acoustics and sound, in the middle of the last century the use of ‘resonance’ in the cultural ‘discours’ in the West, shot up manyfold and stayed there to this day. Now rather the wide range of occurrences, even healing aspects, of resonance have come to the fore as well.
It was probably in the sixties that the term ‘resonance’ started to ‘resonate’ with more and more educated and younger people for whom ‘vibes’ (vibrations) and ‘tuning-in’ (harmonizing), were household terms. the embryonic Boomers.
It is indeed the vibration, its perceived field of influence, its ‘working’, that is the characteristic of resonance, the field it specifies, the resonance frequency emitted and ‘responded’ to, by every object, universally.
A resonance is a region of specific presence in our view, not of force. A resonance has a quality. It is much more subtle than the term force suggests, although it is true that it is as mechanical as a common reflex, it is also a joining, a harmonizing, a synchronizing; it’s a verb,; it ‘works’.
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What I want to put forward here is that the working of resonance is nature’s pillar of interaction, of communication, of transmitting information and of bringing a world into being by standing waves of sound and light.
In physics resonance is seen as: one object vibrating ‘forcing’ another object with same resonant frequency into vibrational motion. (Note we need a medium for resonance). But resonance is so much more, it sustains reality into your most intimate thoughts.
From our perspective it is the receiving object which ‘recognizes’ some vibration of its environment as the same as its own and ‘tunes in’, ‘joins in’, harmonizes, synchronizes, this is the seed of awareness, because of the shared-ness, the condition of interaction.
We see now how the pixall-fields, constitute the substance of space. It is probably by ‘interconnection’, by ‘resonance’, that the awareness originates.
Resonance as primordial ‘cognition’ and ‘recognition’, which subsequently ‘solidifies’ in ‘memory clouds’ with ‘resonance frequencies’ and seems to pervade everything, tangible and intangible
It is important to see that ‘recognition’ is not some mental/conscious act of will, but based on mechanical conditioning, on a law of nature, mind you. We cannot help recognizing, we cannot help resonating with our environment, we are built to resonate to survive, we are full of resonators and resonances ourselves.
It is this ‘involuntary awareness’, which is the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ (Chalmers) in physics and philosophy today, which was addressed by zen-master Bankei, just 400 years ago and by him revealed to be our innate Buddha-nature, called: the Unborn. (Ur-awareness)
It is our inborn natural awareness of our experienced environment, which is the gateway to our awakening to the Unborn.
In this one word ‘Unborn’, Bankei wonderfully and mysteriously, summarizes the core-teaching of the Buddha.
The ‘Unborn and Undying’ designates the state without beginning, without end, the state without origin, without destination. The unborn is what has always been (this is, of course, an overwhelming concept to contemplate), a state of total inclusion.
It means eternal and infinite, both terms we have a hard time understanding. But then, ‘understanding’ has no place here, maybe. Only direct experience may give us a glimpse or even an awakening to the ‘total inclusion’.
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Resonance could be a viable vehicle for understanding awareness, especially when we consider interrelatedness as leading principle. The oneness forces us to consider where the mind-matter duality becomes fluid, conceptually, what the conditions are when it becomes hard to distinguish what is what.
Resonance is an expression of awareness of other, often similar, presences, the seed of memory. In the resonance the individual thing ‘experiences’ its environment and reacts to it, joins it in a natural reflex, an adapted configuration.
The space particles of the deep-field provide the basic resonance, the ur-vibration or ur-sound, Nada Brahma; it is this resonance which connects all and everything and in this one-ness there is the aware-ness. The oneness creates the recognition, the transparency, the immediacy , the complementarity (it dis-entangles entanglement).
In that sense then we consider all of nature is in a state of awareness, everything is born out of awareness. This is the insight Bankei gave me, that Nature is Awareness itself and creates new Awareness (because nature is nosy).
To experience this innate natural quality of connecting to the full environment we are in, we should realize the Unborn in us all. This was Bankei’s teaching: to connect with the deep awareness of the world you are born from, open up to your Unborn Buddha-nature. This basic awareness of the natural world is exactly what lifts it beyond materiality and up to the fathomless abundance of permanent creation in our everyday reality, wherever it be. There is no beginning or end here, no origin even, it is the Unborn, An-utpada, ‘without arising’ , in its all-pervading aware-ness, in its One-ness.
Awareness is independent of us individually, it is resonances shared by everything, it is the state of the atmosphere, the state of the world. The electromagnetic cloud cover we (they) have laid over the world.
Bankei points to our awareness of the background and brings it to the foreground; the unintentionality, the naturalness by which we perceive the noises of our environment and can identify them flawlessly; so as you are not trying to experience; you just do experience spontaneously, it’s everywhere, this is the Unborn state of nature you’re enveloped by, and want to open up to.
Listen to Bankei:
“Listen carefully! What you all have from your parents innately is the Unborn Buddha Mind alone. There is nothing else you have innately (…) This Buddha Mind you have (…) is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating”.
Mind here the emphasis on the innate nature of the unborn state and on its intelligence, its awareness, ‘marvellously illuminating’.
The next quote was a revelation to me because it says we are unintentionally aware anyhow, we cannot help being aware, this is our natural state; it is this ‘resonance’ we are subject to; even ‘made’ or ‘created’ to be subject to. Our whole body is constructed to resonate with the outside world, from senses to food, we interact with the environment constantly and react on the base of resonance (memory, knowledge).
“While you are all turned this way listening to me talk, you don’t mistake the chirp of a sparrow out back for the caw of a crow, the sound of a gong for that of a drum, a man’s voice for a woman’s, an adult’s voice for a child’s – you clearly recognize and distinguish each sound you hear without making a mistake. That is the marvellously illuminating dynamic function of the Unborn”.
Bankei here shows in a wonderful way how we are bound to experience our wider environment and that we involuntarily recognize and distinguish between sounds, and all, in this, our environment that we share. This involuntary, but crucial resonance and awareness of the common world is where the Unborn resides.
When Bankei says the innate Unborn Buddha-nature is in us all, then, since the Unborn is without beginning or end (while we are), it must be there all the time, independent of whether we are born or not. This is the crucial point, nature’s awareness is independent of us, we are dependent on it.
Bankei says: ‘Everything is perfectly managed with the Unborn’. So the Unborn is an Ur-state of Nature that manifests itself in you as awareness. So your awareness is actually Nature’s awareness taking form in you and providing you with your personal consciousness, so that you can find your way about. (everything is taken care of; there is a strong resonance with ‘wu wei’ here, we learn by letting go.).
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Your awareness of your environment is your brain resonating with all the fields it is subject to. The image of your room and the space outside the window is not in your brain somewhere, it is the mirror-image your senses reflect, what you experience by resonances in your brain, it is out there for everyone else to see, not private, it is ‘awareness come to life’, you are the ‘whole experience in space’, immediately, because you are space yourself, there is no separation, his wholeness is the awareness. Space is awareness, it lights up before your eyes.
It is nothing personal. It is the field of awareness in which also animals partake and trees, plants, all of nature. This awareness has not the privacy of consciousness, it is for all to experience according to disposition. Nature is awareness.
I hope to shed some light on the different connotations of ‘awareness’ and ‘conscious-ness’, because they are often used interchangeably, but have really different flavours.
Consciousness is a cultural thing, full of unconscious taboos and rules; not so awareness, awareness is impartial, nothing in between. Animals have awareness, unclouded by consciousness, they are completely ‘natural’, they live the Unborn.
Consciousness is our own private world with a lot of ego, tainted by personal experiences, awareness is the world we share. Our consciousness defines the life we live, our awareness is defined by the world we live in. In sleep we are not conscious, but we are aware (sound, light).
Awareness is survival-mode, consciousness is leisure-mode, even dream-mode (you remember, as if conscious).
The archer has no consciousness but is all awareness.
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My aim is to find a vocabulary that can translate intuitive, mystical, even supernatural, knowledge into a rather neutral philosophical language. My use of the term the ‘One’ for instance can for one person mean ‘God’, another “Great Mother”, for another the ‘Dao’, for the next ‘Nature’ or ‘Cosmos’. Because the term is neutral it cannot be tainted by dogma, other than its own.
“Experiencing the grace of the Unborn is the overwhelming embrace of the One”; it can be poetry. The experiences of bliss or grace which accompany great awakenings in many cultures bear witness of what an overwhelming encounter with the ‘pure awareness of the world’ an awakening can be. You become one with it all and are never alone anymore.
The Oneness, the primal awareness, is the basic ontology of reality, carried by the ‘resonances’ of the space-particles and their fields (objects), so here the fusion of the mental and physical is realized. The aethereal particles are the ‘condensation’ of awareness as geometry of space, the deep-field. The space-particles sustain the form by providing a geometrically flawless passing of the fleeting wave-configurations through the local ‘space-state’.
The resonances of the vibrating deep-field fill the inexhaustible well of Deep Awareness** that ‘everything’ takes its unique form from.
In this view the Ur-field is the Substance in which all forms partake, but forms have no self-substance, no eigen-mass, no persistent identity. Having no self-substance is described as ‘emptiness’ which is reminiscent of the concept of Sunyata, Emptiness, and relates to the Unborn as formless, but aware.
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** Deep Awareness is the inexhaustible creativity of the Ur-field. It’s also the Buddha-nature.
