The Zennist

Adapting Quantum Field Theory terms to Buddhism we have rebirth

With successful coitus the woman becomes pregnant, but what does that mean?  In Buddhism the transmigrant from one life to the next, vijñāna (consciousness) is described as a stream (santāna) but also as something that “descends” (paṭisandhi-vijñāna).  It is also important to keep in mind that both sperm in the egg have DNA which is an antenna—they can both send and receive. Instead of imagining a ghost flying down, hovering over the couple, flying into the womb, imagine this:

• Vijñāna in the bardo is like a nonlocal excitation of the karmic field.

• It exists as a vibratory pattern (spanda) seeking a resonance in the material world.

In QFT terms, this is like a nonlocal mode coupling into a local field because their frequencies match. Only when the resonance is achieved does the “linking” occur—a successful conception. When the sperm successfully penetrates the egg this is the link the consciousness is looking for to tune into becoming re-embodied.

This mirrors quantum entanglement too:

• Two systems (bardo consciousness and embryo field) become correlated beyond classical locality.

• The act of “linking” is not a physical movement but a collapse into mutual resonance.

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🌱 The Growth of the Embryo

Once linked, the local field (embryo) grows like a standing wave in the uterus. But the wave is still “fed” by the nonlocal excitation of vijñāna. This explains why, in Buddhist cosmology, the body is seen as a nāmarūpa (name-and-form)—a pattern that arises from consciousness rather than the other way around.

🪷 “Vijñāna finds its footing in name-and-form; name-and-form finds its footing in vijñāna.” (MN 38)

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🜂 In Summary (the analogy)

Quantum Field Theory	Buddhist View
Local bio-electric fields	Sperm/egg as “antenna”
Nonlocal excitations	Vijñāna in the bardo
Resonance and field coupling	Paṭisandhi-vijñāna (linking)
Wave pattern in a field	Nāmarūpa (embryonic development)
Entanglement (nonlocal correlation)	Karma drawing consciousness to rebirth

 

With the exception of Buddhism, most religions ignore rebirth. With the arrival of modern technology we now have a perfect way to describe what is going on as far as rebirth is concerned.  

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Light divine is singular before the brain or any measuring apparatus/process modulates it into what we call light "c" with wavelength (λ) and frequency (ν). The various chants, mantras and frequencies allow us to get closer to this singular light where we are blissfully embraced and restored to our natural state of being before our fall into the enfleshing uterus/garbha.

Under the reign of Ashoka, Buddhism spread throughout the world even going as far, if not farther, than Alexandria Egypt. Now, let me say it, it takes a great culture to spread a great religion. It is the same with Christianity. Spreading a religion by force can only be maintained by force. Today, we are facing a great crisis. Europe, especially, has opened its doors to people from undeveloped and weak cultures. The die is cast. Europe's once great cultures are now doomed. Fortunately, both Buddhism and Orthodox Christianity will not fail. They are both alive and well in strong cultures.

Bound in what we are not, this Buddhist refrain acts as a metacognitive checksum for us. The Buddhist error correction code:

“This is not mine” = Not clinging.

“This I am not” = Not identifying.

“This is not my self” = Not misapprehending a soul/core entity.

I have had no problem with using QM terms to describe what's going on in Buddhism especially Yogācāra. Nonlocality works well as does locality. But Yogācāra understands that the six senses are incapable of having a handshake with nonlocal reality—something a kin to Schrödinger's one-mind singulare tantum. This is not to say that a handshake is impossible, it's not. You just can't go about it by assuming that the six senses are going to get you there. By the way the 6th sense in Buddhism is imagination. If we permit the use of the six senses our efforts are repelled by nonlocal reality. The six senses are not bridges to nonlocal reality. Instead, they are interference patterns. They project a dualizing grid of consciousness (vijñāna) over reality, creating a false world of "this" and "that." The six senses don't fail because they're broken—they fail because they measure. And measurement, in this metaphysics, is limitation.

Western science is not going to give us an insight into what mind is. We are using phenomenalizations of mind to discover mind itself. But this is only guessing. It is as if we are using clumps of mind but can only go as far as indefinitely small clumps. We never arrive at unclumpled mind itself. This path requires negation. In Indian religions like Buddhism and Vedanta, we have to handshake with mind. This is an apophatic process that culminates in a handshake with an unclumped mind, that is, a mind before it is phenomenalized. Finally, we understand that we are a mind incarnated and living in a mind-like phenomenal world. Our suffering came about because we identified, not with pure mind, but with a biological construct of mind (“this is mine”, “I am this”, “this is my self”) .

Not all religions agree on what "religion" means. For some religions, a prophet speaks on behalf of some deity or vision—the prophetic reception. The words of the prophet are believed to be sacred but still interpretable. For others, religion means direct knowledge of ultimate reality. Gautama the Buddha and Jesus the Christ were not prophets. They had direct knowledge of ultimate reality. Belief in a prophet's third-person knowledge coming from an angel is different than direct knowledge, which transcends first-person knowledge and second-person knowledge. In both religions, the believers' roles are different. One follows; the other seeks. One memorizes; the other meditates. One hears from an angel; the other communes with the pneumatic Light.

It's unfortunate that the Nazis took a beautiful term from the Vedas and turned it in to a piece of garbage. I am talking about the word Aryan. Let's look at the verse: "Children of Arya are led by the light" (RV, VII. 33.17). Light (ज्योतिस्) means the divine source of intelligence. If you think of yourself as being Aryan, that means you are a spiritual person. Aryan is a term widely used in Buddhism.

When through meditation all measurable constructs are emptied out including the beholder of measurable constructs what suddenly fills the emptiness or 0 is the luminous (prabhāsa). Hitherto, the one seeking ultimate reality through measurable constructs is always brought to the limit of 0 (śūnya). There is no jailbreak here until the beholder, the one seeking, is empty or 0.

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.