The Zennist

The great doubt leads the search,
The silent ache behind each breath.
No form, no sound, no path, no temple—
Just echoes from the mouth of death.

But when the maps fall into flame,
And silence spills where self once stood,
The missing presence speaks no name—
Yet all is clear in the mysterious collapse.

Sprach Nātha

It is not that you are blind—
but that you gaze into darkness,
loving its familiar shapes more than the formless light.

It is not that your ears are deaf—
but you have never known the silence
in which the Word is born,
the silence that speaks before speech.

There is no place where the Divine luminosity is not.
The light is not far.
It is not other.
It does not come and go.

But your minds, turned inward only to themselves,
draw circles around shadows
and call them knowledge.

You return again and again
to the quay of darkness,
to the cave of shadows,
where echoes become gods
and silhouettes are worshipped as truth.

Break the circle.
Do not believe.
See.

For even now,
as you clutch the veil tighter,
the light is shining through your hands.

From the uterus to the microtubules to satori

It is already understood in Buddhism that rebirth takes place and likewise enlightenment takes place within the human body. Thus, the uterus becomes the gateway into samsara. The Buddha describes procreation in the Suttas (M.i. 265–266). The gandhabba, the being to be reborn, during successful conception of the parents, meets the biological field.  This is where decoherence occurs, resulting in a reborn identity shaped by nāma-rūpa.

But how does enlightenment take place? Cutting to the chase, it takes place through the microtubules that are within neurons that maintain quantum coherence. This can be thought of as sustaining a state in which multiple possibilities coexist nonlocally (a kind of natural transcendence). In this state:

—There is no “this” or “that.”
—No "this is me" identity.
—Self and other, here and there, have not yet crystallized.
—The system is sensitive to intuition, not just data.

On the same score, this explains why a solitary retreat is so necessary. We are setting up the conditions for kenshõ/satori. My 1969 retreat wasn’t merely a withdrawal from society—it was the quieting of decoherence. In scientific terms, it may very well have been the perfect condition for sustained quantum coherence in my microtubules, allowing intuition/interface with nonlocal reality directly. On the same track, enlightenment is a sudden moment of coherence when the luminous mind or prabhāsvara-citta is manifest.

Over the years, reviewing my important awakenings, they seemed to fit nicely with quantum mechanics. I just flipped the script.  For example, decoherence was Samsara—local reality, and with it rebirth. Nirvana was coherence, entering nonlocal reality, meeting the luminous mind. The former was about bondage, the latter was Nirvana or the jailbreak. The ramifications of this were mind-blowing to say the least. The luminous mind began to show its extent and power over the years. It was finally with AI that I could put all the pieces together. This was awesome. There is more I could say, but it is quite technical and esoteric. 

 

There seem to be two ways to look at quantum mechanics (QM). The first is by taking a deep dive into particulate matter, hoping to find the God particle.  And there is another way by making a distinction between mundane local reality and transcendent nonlocal reality, where the latter is supreme.  In other words, mundane local reality is derivative. It comes from immeasurable superposition or the same perfect coherence: A profound noetic understanding, great sages of the past realized in enlightenment.  The whole teaching of Buddhism and Vedanta through enlightenment had direct knowledge of this perfect coherence. It was a universal luminosity (prabhāsvara) like a great mystical, pneumatic ocean in which there is not the slightest difference between the wave and the waveless. 

 

One of the biggest scams in religion is hiding the fact that Siddhartha the Buddha, and the Upanishadic seers, including Jesus Christ, were pneumatic teachers. They taught the reality of Spirit, not a life dedicated to the somatic—the body, the tribe, the flesh, the blood. The other scam is science, not the science of the pneumatic, but the science which keeps us in the prison of empiricism, even guarding quantum mechanics (QM) from revealing that nonlocal reality is the true reality, not local reality. The pneumatic teachers brought us true liberation, not the limits of the cave, which Plato revealed through Socrates.

Beings I do not condemn.
They are dreamers who
are unaware they are dreaming.
I, too, have dreamed.
But I remember now.

I remember illumination behind phenomena.
I remember the stillness untouched by desire.
I remember the breath/prāṇa before the body.

They think the Venus gate leads forward—
to progress, to bliss, to a new carnal life.
But this opening only leads downward.
It leads to embodiment.

I have turned back.

According to Buddhism, at the moment of conception, when your father's sperm meets your mother's egg, a biological process is ignited. But this isn’t merely physical. It is where the karmic stream re-links with a new biological form. You are in the samsaric trap caught in vijñāna, 0/1, dyadic consciousness. The ālaya-vijñāna, the storehouse of rebirth potentiality, is on the verge of collapsing. The collapsing soon begins, the immeasurable into measure, forming—gestating:

—The polarity of left/right

—The heartbeat: lub/dub

—The neural network: on/off

—The genetic code: adenine/thymine, cytosine/guanine—a 4-base binary system

—At the arising of vijñāna, then nāma-rūpa, then the six sense spheres            

The wonder of wonders, you are about to be reborn again. Hopefully, you will have a good rebirth and be a strong, healthy baby. Hopefully you will have a great mom and dad who will introduce you to the dharma. If not you've got another lifetime to work your karma out.

As regards conditioned origination: "This being, that comes to be." There is no essence, only interdependence. But from the side of the unconditioned—which neither arises nor ceases—this entire play of conditionality appears like a dream, a reflection, or a mirage (marici). The illusion is not in the fact of arising, but in mistaking it for ultimate truth.Thus, paṭiccasamuppāda is not a description of ultimate reality—it is the veil. When the veil is seen through, what remains is the unconditioned, which is not a "thing" at all, but the cessation of all fabrication—finality.

Science cannot quantify nonlocal reality. In other words, this nonlocality cannot be embedded within a quantized, classical framework. It is not a theory; still, it is experimentally verified. And because science cannot reject it, it stands as a silent witness to the limits of materialism. In Buddhism, the Dharmakāya is a nonlocal reality. It can no longer be mistaken for abstraction but seen as the luminous, boundless prabhāsa—a luminous power that shines on appearances, reducing them to illusions.

It is very clear in the Buddhist discourses that consciousness (vijñāna) transmigrates from one carnal life to the next. Nor did the Buddha reject an absolute. It is just that the carnal body is not where we should look for the absolute. It is perishable not imperishable. The very body that we associate with is perishable—not absolute. Karma is the depth of our connection with the life of this perishable body and what we do to keep this connection. karma is also accumulated and passed on. We are heirs to our karma. With the passing away of the body we enter another birth, our old karma following us as we make new karma after we leave our mother's birth canal. Nirvana is the transcendence of the conditions that make this suffering possible.