If "everything is energy" then what does this mean?

[Magpie1978]

No, everything is not energy, empty space is not energy, however everything that is not empty space is energy. Personally I like to think of it as there being a dualism in reality, there exists empty space and energy, kind of like the yin-yang philosophy.

A glass of water is not empty but it's not energy!

 

[`mud]

Before 'everything' was 'energy', what was it ?
From where did the present existing 'plasma' come ?
Where is the lack of 'everything' found, in what container ?
From where'd the 'nothingness' come ?
~
Now here's your "genesis",
write your own.
~
'mud

 

[Runewolf1973]

So we have three non-Buddhists lecturing a Buddhist about Buddhist teachings. A Hindu, a new-ager and a woolly syncretist, each with an agenda to misrepresent Buddhism.

Ridiculous.

As I observed earlier, there are three or four people on this forum who understand Buddhism, these three are certainly not included in that number.

I've never personally studied Buddhism or Hinduism. I think I've read maybe two or three paragraphs off of each of their Wikipedia pages...literally. That's the extent of my knowledge of Buddhism and Hinduism. I've just never had the desire to pick up a book or learn what they were about. I base all my views almost exclusively on what I've gathered from just studying, observing and reflecting on nature. The universe will open up to you and show you it's deepest secrets if you just let it.

 

[godnotgod]

So we have three non-Buddhists lecturing a Buddhist about Buddhist teachings. A Hindu, a new-ager and a woolly syncretist, each with an agenda to misrepresent Buddhism.

Ridiculous.

As I observed earlier, there are three or four people on this forum who understand Buddhism, these three are certainly not included in that number.

Why are you now so defensive? Is it because a Fake Corn Flake Buddhist put the truth from the Buddha's own mouth about 'the unconditioned' and 'The Absolute', both in the same mouthful, right under your nose, which you conveniently chose to ignore, choosing instead to attack the pointing finger?

 

[godnotgod]

I base all my views almost exclusively on what I've gathered from just studying, observing and reflecting on nature. The universe will open up to you and show you it's deepest secrets if you just let it.

Ooooh, sounds compelling! even better than what science can do.

So there must be a difference between your approach and the scientific approach, because science is not saying what you're saying.

 

[godnotgod]

Before 'everything' was 'energy', what was it ?
From where did the present existing 'plasma' come ?
Where is the lack of 'everything' found, in what container ?
From where'd the 'nothingness' come ?
~
Now here's your "genesis",
write your own.
~
'mud

The 'nothingness' is Consciousness, which did not come from anywhere. It is Unborn, Uncaused, Unconditioned, not in Time or Space, and YOU are IT.

 

[Runewolf1973]

Ooooh, sounds compelling! even better than what science can do.

So there must be a difference between your approach and the scientific approach, because science is not saying what you're saying.

Please point out which part of my approach specifically you think science does not agree with.

 

[godnotgod]

Please point out which part of my approach specifically you think science does not agree with.

That's not what I said. I said you know more about the universe than science does, so you must be doing something different.

 

[Runewolf1973]

That's not what I said. I said you know more about the universe than science does, so you must be doing something different.

The universe speaks, I listen. People are always so busy all the time only paying attention to the little voices in their heads, or to what other heads are saying, they fail to hear that one true Voice which tells All which is the universe Itself speaking.

 

[Runewolf1973]

Before 'everything' was 'energy', what was it ?
From where did the present existing 'plasma' come ?
Where is the lack of 'everything' found, in what container ?
From where'd the 'nothingness' come ?
~
Now here's your "genesis",
write your own.
~
'mud

An infinite field of infinite potential.

 

[godnotgod]

The universe speaks, I listen. People are always so busy all the time only paying attention to the little voices in their heads, or to what other heads are saying, they fail to hear that one true Voice which tells All which is the universe Itself speaking.

This is not the scientific method. You apparently know something science does not.

 

[Runewolf1973]

This is not the scientific method. You apparently know something science does not.

Science only knows how to disect nature or to study it's parts, but it doesn't know how to Hear the universe intuitively. I do both.

 

[Spideymon77]

It means that we are all of one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. Means that there's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imaginations of ourselves.

Now here's Tom with the weather!

 

[godnotgod]

It means that we are all of one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. Means that there's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imaginations of ourselves.

Now here's Tom with the weather!

Or maybe the imagination of 'That'.

 

[godnotgod]

Science only knows how to disect nature or to study it's parts, but it doesn't know how to Hear the universe intuitively. I do both.

Well, that's what I'm getting at, the keyword here being 'intuitively'. That is the pathway of the mystic, which simply means the union of the observer with the observed, without the 'woo'.

 

[`mud]

Ahhhhh.....'conscientiousness'
cognivative awareness of that amongst us,
and none of that quality after death.
It can't be passed on !
~
Look at what Jesus did because of not writing !
Or what Saul did with it, write it down !
One's cognitive existance should be recorded,
our gnosis' aren't that deep !
~
'mud

 

[Runewolf1973]

Ahhhhh.....'conscientiousness'
cognivative awareness of that amongst us,
and none of that quality after death.
It can't be passed on !
~
Look at what Jesus did because of not writing !
Or what Saul did with it, write it down !
One's cognitive existance should be recorded,
our gnosis' aren't that deep !
~
'mud

Everything is already written in the stars, but this is kinda like reading between the lines...er...stars.

 

[Runewolf1973]

Well, that's what I'm getting at, the keyword here being 'intuitively'. That is the pathway of the mystic, which simply means the union of the observer with the observed, without the 'woo'.

Perhaps I'm a bit of a mystic.

 

[Ben Dhyan]

The 'nothingness' is Consciousness, which did not come from anywhere. It is Unborn, Uncaused, Unconditioned, not in Time or Space, and YOU are IT.

Except some call it Oneness, God, Tao, Nirvana, Brahman, Absolute Being, Allah, etc....the reality is forever on the other side of the label...a rose by any other name would smell as sweet....

 

[gnostic]

Except some call it Oneness, God, Tao, Nirvana, Brahman, Absolute Being, Allah, etc....the reality is forever on the other side of the label...a rose by any other name would smell as sweet....

They (your list) are actually nothing more than labels, and very meaningless ones at that.

They are human concepts, from wild imaginations, or getting high on LSD or magic mushrooms, or simple delusions.