Theory
of mind formation base on beings with matter base bodies e.g.
animals and human beings.
In
the universe, there are two aspects,
one is matter formation and the other is life formation or mind
formation. Much is known about science of matter, but little is known
about life formation. This is because there are various matter based
sensors or detectors which are able to obtain information about the
matter body. Matter based sensors or detectors do not detect life
formation in general. If the life formation have matter bodies, as in
the case of animals or human, matter based detectors can detect their
matter bodies. E.g.
the optical camera or biological eye can detect the animals or a
human being.
Matter
on the micro1
scale consists of
particles flow which is random particle motion. The particles
themselves are actually almost permanent electromagnetic energy flow
which is setup as nuclear energy. Einstein equation E=mc2
show the equivalence between matter content (i.e. mass) and energy.
This equation holds true for matter in
both macro and micro scale. The
matterform energy is the permanent electromagnetic energy flow in
matter.
Life
formation in the human body also consists
of energy flow through matter based brain neural network. This energy
flow allow the setup of the mind which is related to the person self
or ego level. This energy flow can also be referring
to as mindform energy or mental energy or the mind.
Animals also have the
same energy flow except their matter based brain neural network
consist of less neuron than human; therefore, their processing
capability is impaired. Thus, life formation is some sort of a bond
between the material human body and the mindform energy. I.e.
Each life form
has its own mindform energy. All animals and humans has a death
process which the mindform energy stop flowing and leave their matter
based body. Their matter based body become non living thing and are
subject to decay and decomposition.
This life formation can be analogously compared to a computer which
is energy flowing in the electronic circuits. The processing
capability of the computer in general depends on the circuit nodes or
circuit complexity. Switching off the computer, the energy flow stop,
the computer processing stop, and heat energy is liberated.
In contrast, life form is considered
dead when the energy flow or mindform energy flow stop in the matter
based brain neural network. The reported reincarnation experience
and study by Prof Ian Stevenson suggested that there is some sort
continuity between the previous life and the next reincarnated life.
After reincarnation, the mindform
energy flow in the new reincarnated body, thus suggesting some sort
of permanency setup of this mindform energy flow analogous to matter
energy flow. The reincarnated person has the capacity to recall his
previous life through this mindform energy only if he has developed
the capability. I.e. there is memory stored in this mindform energy
flow, an infinite store of past life experiences.
The
difficulty of writing this article on
analogous comparison between matterform and mindform energy
is that not much is known about mindform. This is because matter
based sensors do not detect mindform energy. Mindform energy can only
be detected by one’s own mindform energy in the same mind domain.
Each life form
has its own mindform energy. It has to use its own mindform energy to
detect. The detection capability of each own mindform energy is very
different. Animals and human beings are mindform energy bonded to
biological matter body, so their ability to detect mindform domain is
impaired. Most people have
very poor detection. However, very few people have developed the
capability to detect. Unfortunately,
they can’t be shared or borrow just the way matterform sensor can
be shared or build or used in getting reproducible results.
As I do not have the capability to detect
mindform energy, I have to base on what is reported on the internet.
Also, the possibility of reported information being incorrect further
complicates
matters. Nevertheless, it is the only way of getting the information,
and the information can be subjected to consistency check. One
person stands out
in providing information. He was Prince Siddharta who lived in the
6th century BC, the founder of Buddhism and is known as a Buddha. The
Buddha, himself claim to have six higher knowledge or power.
(Abhijna)2
such as Iddhi3,
telepathy, super-hearing, divine seeing, and seeing past lives. In
this article, what matters is the Buddha omniscence4
capability.
Prince Siddharta background from being a prince to an ascetic to the
Buddha suggested that
a) He has no material ulterior motives
b) He has no interest in power and influence
c) His only motives is to teach the way (i) to nirvana for monks
and
(ii) to a happy layman life for laymen.
The Buddha 4th precepts for layman is
I
undertake the rule of training which consists in abstention from
false speech
Therefore
it is unlikely that his own claim is false,
as this precept also apply to the monks, arahats and the Buddha. The
arahats and the Buddha are fully enlightened (nirvana). They are in
the state of non-self or zero self. They have absolutely no craving,
no desire or aversion and in perfect equanimity. Thus, with no
ulterior motive to tell a lie, therefore only told the truth.
The
mind is higher than matter. Mind can control matter, i.e. Ghosts do
not have matter bodies, so generally matter based detectors do not
detect them. However there are cases of ghost being detected by
matter based sensors. Such cases are
probably due to the ghost mindform energy creating a matter based
ghostly apparition. [For example, in some cases, ghosts can be
detected by matter based sensors only if the mind of the ghost will
or enable the detection of ghostly apparition.]
In
reincarnation, it was reported that persons who suffered a violent
death such as getting shot or being stabbed was born with birth
marks in his next reincarnated life. The location of the birth mark
exactly correspond to where he was shot or stabbed in his past life
body.5 A
possible explanation of the birth mark
is the mind occupation on the spot before death. In the next life,
the marks are formed from the continuation of the mind to dwell at
the spot.
A
Buddhist monk was reported to have many instances of his body in
monanstery.3
His mind must have willed the duplication of his body. Obviously
there was only one real body and the others were creation out from
air.
The above is the short description of the theory of life formation.
It is theory, since none of it can be scientifically proven through
matter based sensors.
Thus, the first analogous comparison between matter formation and
life formation is matterform energy flow and mindform energy flow.
The difference between matterform energy and mindform energy flow is
yet to be discovered, but the operative nature of mindform energy
flow is in different domain of which the exact nature remain to be
discovered. Perhaps by comparing analogously between matter and life,
some information could be revealed. However, the mindform domain is
very different from matter domain, and it is expected to have some
differences. One can see that matter based sciences is quantifiable
while mindform domain science is still primitive and not
quantifiable.
What aspect to start the comparison? For matter, temperature is used
and the effect on external (macro level) and internal motion (micro
level). For life formation, self or ego level and its relation on
mental activity is compared. For matter, it is well known that
temperature is a measure of internal motion. For life, the analogous
statement is self or ego level is an abstract indication of mental
activity. When a person has a very strong self or ego, it can be said
that he is selfish, and he has many desires and aversions. He will be
thinking how to achieve his desires and to prevent aversions from
happening. He may be expressing, cursing, angry and worry if his
desire is not achieved or his aversions keep on happening. He may
plan or do evil deeds such as murder, stealing or corruption just to
achieve his desires or prevent his aversions from happening. Day to
day, there will be many mental objects and activity happening in his
mind. I.e., the stronger, the self or ego level, the stronger is the
mental activity. Concentration level is the ability to do a single
mental object and focus at it at all time. Thus, when mental activity
increases concentration level decreases. This is the second analogous
comparison between matter and life – temperature versus self or ego
level.
The
next analogous comparison is the about the sensing capability of one
own mindform energy to detect other mindform energy. Those with
higher self or ego level generally have
higher mental activity. This activity is unrelated to sensing other
mindform energy. They are analogous to noise in matterform sensors.
Should the noise be higher than signal in matterform sensor,
detection is not possible. For mindform sensors to be capable, the
right mental activity must be higher than other irrelevant mental
activity or noise. Such mental activity process is also known as
concentration meditation.
Some
matter exhibit superconductivity and super fluidity
at temperature close to zero. These correspond
to low mental activity or low ego or self level close to zero. At
that ego or self level, some human beings may possess special powers.
These jhana special powers are
a)
Can travel thro matter. Pass through walls, earth as if flying at the
very high speed, e.g.
light speed, through the air.6
b)
Can interact with matter7.
c)
Can read other mindform energy8
thoughts,
feelings and speech.
In near death experience, the mindform energy is
weakly bonded to the body and may left the body. The mindform energy
is able to travel through matter. However, it can only read other
human beings interactions, feel emotions and thoughts, and the voice
communications between human beings. This is not done through one’s
own dying matter body but by tapping and reading the mindform energy
of others. However the ability of the mindform energy to communicate
with others is not possible, simply because the others have poor read
or detection capability of mindform energy, and they read and
understand through their matter bodies sense organs. For
interaction with matter, it is not known to be capable.
For
matter with high temperature superconductivity such
as hydrogen sulphide9
gas, this is analogous to special powers in
mindform with much higher self or ego level. For such mindform, the
above special powers can develop when the concentration power is high
enough. However, such mindform or person must practice concentration
meditation to increase concentration level. To see how this can
happen with concentration, let’s
consider the ideal gas law equations on the matter domain. The ideal
Gas Law equation PV = RT, where P is pressure, V is volume, R a
constant, T is temperature is in matter domain. The counterpart in
life form domain
could not be quantified and represented by equations. However the
meaning and relation between parameters can be discovered. The
mental concentration acting on the container or spread of mental
activity is related to the self or ego level of the person. The above
relationship happen to hold true
for a person with higher self or ego level to achieve jhana special
powers is that he must do concentration meditation10.
Matter
has states such as particle, solid, liquid, gases, plasma depend on
its temperature. Life also has states of existence depend on the ego
or self level. These states of existence are the six sensory planes;
follow by planes beyond the sensory planes. Animals and Humans are
planes with matter bodies bonded to their mindform energy. The
sensory beings in order of the reducing ego or self level are Hell
beings, ghost, demon, animals, human beings and heavenly beings. Hell
beings are thus, have the highest ego or self level. Animals and
human being are the only sensory life form
with matter bodies. States of matter is thus analogous to planes of
existence.
In
matter domain, the Newton’s law of motion is obeyed. For whatever
action force there is a reaction force. If a matter object is applied
a force, there is a reaction force on the applicator. The 1st and
3rd law is analogous to the law of karma. Generally, a person who
punches another
person will get a punch back from the other person.
However, the person who punches
a holy man will not get a punch back. It appears that the law of
karma failed to work. But according to the Buddha, the karma works
because the person who punch the holy man, will pay for his wicked
deed next time, when his karma matures, e.g. life in woeful states
e.g. hell. The
holy man is analogous to a fixed concrete wall. The person who
punches is
analogous to a vehicle travelling and collided with the fixed
concrete wall. After collision, the vehicle is deformed because the
effect of the collision is transfer to the micro scale of the atomic
particles of the vehicle, causing the vehicle to be deformed. The
person who punch the holy man; because of his act; his ego or self
level will increase on the micro scale; thus, should he died; his
future life will be in lower planes of existence.
Consider a suicide bomber who sacrifices
his life to kill innocent victims. He does his act out of out of
ignorance or mistaken belief in rewards or promoting a cause
favourable to his group. Some victims after being killed; develop
hatred towards the suicide
bomber. Because of hatred, these victims and the suicide
bomber will be reborn in woeful states of existences and continue
fighting. In the human plane of existence there are laws and system
to prevent endless fight. But in the woeful state of existence, there
is no such law or system. So the suicide
bomber will be fighting against many of the victims and suffer
endless blows. A similar situation is one who triggers and orders
the detonation of the nuclear bomb.
The second law, Force = mass X acceleration, however, seem
inapplicable to mind domain. Perhaps, the Force is analogous to the
mental activity of the mind will to travel. The mass in the matter
domain appear not to have any analogous in the mind domain, because
whatever the analogous item in the mind domain its value is either
zero or extremely small, almost zero. Thus, the mind may travel at a
maximum speed limit, just like the speed of light in matter domain or
no speed limit. The maxmum speed or whether there is a speed limit
remains to be discovered in the future.
Matter
can go through nuclear reaction, generating energy. An example is the
annihilation of electron and positron generating energy. An electron
has the same mass with positron but opposite spin. When low momentum
electron collided with low momentum positron, there is a high
possibility the spin cancelled out and matterform energy flow is
stopped. This is analogous to mindform energy flow stopped at the
moment of death, and mindform energy is liberated. I.e. ‘Death of
matter’ or purely electromagnetic energy liberation is analogous to
momentarily nirvana at the moment of death. Clearly, nirvana in life
form is analogous
to nuclear reaction in matter. For, matter based bodies such as the
stars or the sun in our solar system, they goes through nuclear
reaction to generate energy. This is analogous to nirvana, an event
achieved in a human lifetime before death.
When light energy liberate from matter in a star nuclear reaction,
it travel at the speed of light. The analogous in mindform domain is
the capability of mindform energy to travel from slow speed to
extremely fast as in a single thought moment. This experience has
been described in near death experiences. The Buddha also has
described the speed as a flash of lightning which represent the speed
of light. The alternative description would be thunder which would
be slower and is the speed of sound. However this description was not
used.
Thus
liberation of energy in matter is analogous to the nirvana state in
spiritual life. Nirvana is a state where desires or aversions are
ended or no desires and no aversions. It is also a state of non self
or no ego or self level. It is the absolute zero of ego or self level
in perfect equanimity. This is analogous to matter temperature at
absolute zero. In the universe, the temperature close to absolute
zero is the galactic black hole or the intergalactic space. As the
intergalactic space is mostly empty, it is unlikely to go down to
temperature at absolute zero. The more massive the galactic black
hole, the closer to the temperature to absolute zero. Since nirvana
is analogous to matterform energy liberation, when portion of the
galactic black hole temperature is absolute zero, a big bang is
predicted. As the portion of the GBH at absolute zero can varies
from minute to massive, a galactic minute burp, galactic jet ranges
to galactic big bang is predicted. The galactic burp and galactic jet
has been confirmed in observation. As the mass of the particle in
the Galactic black hole can ranges from simple particle like electron
to massive particle i.e.
gamma rays from MeV to TeV ranges can be emitted in a galactic big
bang. After the galactic big bang, matter as particles undergoes
decompression causing particles to become lighter. The decompression
will require energy and the temperature may again be at absolute zero
causing a secondary explosion.
A write up on the galactic big bang is found listed below.
2.
http://www.thephysicsmill.com/2015/06/14/speculative-sunday-can-a-black-hole-explode/
Comment (Yin) on Nov 14 2016
3.
http://ylopin.blogspot.my/2017/02/observational-evidence-for-galactic-big.html
4.
http://www.thephysicsmill.com/2015/06/14/speculative-sunday-can-a-black-hole-explode/
Comment (Yin) on Feb 8 2017
For more analogous comparison between matterform and mindform please
refer to
http:
http://ylopin.blogspot.my/2016/05/comparison-between-matterform-and.html
http://ylopin.blogspot.my/2016/08/karma-and-concept-of-self-or-ego-level.html
Having done the analogous comparison, the objective of matter is to
provide energy to sustain life. The mindform energy, however, is to
set up the mind, so that living beings roam the universe. The built
in karma and the planes of existence provide a fair and just
automatic punishing and reward system. Those, who aim for nirvana,
has to go through effort to reduce self or ego level and achieve
ultimate serenity, which is the objective for Buddhist monks.
Lastly
as matter and life are actually consisting
of energy flow, it would make sense if electromagnetic energy is a
fundamental object, while mass is derived quantity.
Notes:
1. Macro
scale is the zoom level which is what our eyes see
or detect. Micro level is the zoom level where its particles can be
observed.
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracles_of_Gautama_Buddha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhijna
Abhijñā from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iddhi
Ṛddhi From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from
Iddhi)
An example of near death experiences has been reported to match the
Buddha concept of iddhi is the case of Anita Moorjani.
http://www.nderf.org/Experiences/1anita_m_nde.html
Consistency is also shown in the Buddhist text on iddhi.
3.a ......
At that moment Cula Panthaka said to
himself, “My brother says, ‘There are no monks in the
monastery.’ I will show him that there are monks in the monastery.”
And forthwith he filled the whole mango grove with monks. Some of
them were making robes, others were dyeing robes, others were
repeating the sacred texts. Thus did Cula Panthaka create by
supernormal power a thousand monks, each different from every other.
So when Jivaka’s messenger saw the numerous monks, he returned and
told Jivaka, “Noble sir, the entire mango grove is full of monks.”
And right there the Elder Cula Panthaka did as follows:
Panthaka, multiplying himself a thousandfold,
Sat in the charming mango grove until he was sent for.
The Teacher said to the man, “Go to the monastery and say, ‘The
Teacher summons Cula Panthaka.’ ” The man went and said what he
was told to say. Thereupon the cry went up from a thousand throats,
“I am Cula Panthaka! I am Cula Panthaka!” The man returned and
said, “Reverend sir, they all say they are Cula Panthaka.” Said
the Teacher, “Well then, go and take by the hand the first monk
that says, ‘I am Cula Panthaka,’ and the rest will disappear.”
The man did so. Immediately the thousand monks disappeared. The
Elder Cula Panthaka returned with the man who came for him.
Note:
The text suggested the ability of Cula Panthaka to teleport himself
to the first one that the man hold and the thousand of his created
monks disappeared. This is very difficult to accept in modern times
because such event has never occur again. For any ordinary person,
such event is absolutely impossible. But in front of many people and
the buddha, a lie would have been found out and the text would not be
recorded as in the holy text. Moreover, the text is also consistent
in other events mentioned by the holy text, such as given below. (3b,
3c and 3d)
b Some
monks came to see the Buddha and, hearing the Dhamma attained
Arahantship with psychic powers. Later, they departed flying through
the air. The Venerable Ananda, who had seen them coming, noticed
their absence and inquired of the Buddha where they had gone. Just
at that moment some swans flew through the air. Then the Buddha
remarked that Arahants, who possess psychic powers, go through the
air like swans. Dhammapada verse 13
http://www.metta.lk/english/Narada/13-Loka%20Vagga.htm#N10
c The Buddha daily routine. Scan the world if he could render any
help to anyone in the nirvana goal. Appear and teach the dharmma.
d Miracle of Psychic Power
He can split himself into many "self-bodies" and become
one. He appears and vanishes. He can go unimpeded through walls,
ramparts, and mountains as if through space. He dives in and out of
the earth as if it were water. He walks on water as if it were dry
land. Sitting cross- legged he flies through the air like a bird. His
mind-made body can travel as far as the Brahma world (Astral
travel). With his hand he can touch even the sun and moon, so mighty
and powerful.
Digha Nikaya 11,
http://www.suttas.com/dn-11-kevaddha-sutta-what-brahma-didnt-know.html
4. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn56/sn56.031.wlsh.html
Simsapa Sutta: The Simsapa Leaves translated from the Pali by
Maurice O'Connell Walshe
The Buddha omniscience capability is consistent with the concept of
infinite past lives in different world systems and his six higher
knowledges or power. Knowledge from the past lives, especially those
corresponding to the time age of science, technology can be obtained.
The use of earth, water, air and fire element as the solid, liquid,
gases and temperature and the concept of the nanosecond time duration
in modern times, as the flash of lightning indicate his awareness of
modern science.
5. Birthmarks
and Birth Defects Corresponding to Wounds on Deceased Persons Dr. Ian
Stevenson. Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp.
403-410, 1993
6. See note 3. This also has been described in certain near death
experience, when the mindform energy left the dying body and
performing the special power.
7. See
note 3. The ability of replicate and project bodily images of oneself
is mental interaction with matter, mind control over matter. I.e.
Mind higher than matter.
8. See
note 3. The mind reader. Communication mind to mind is only possible
if the other mindform energy also have the jhana special powers. This
is observed in
certain near death experiences where the mindform energy leaves the
dying body and performing the mind reader.
9.
https://www.sciencealert.com/hydrogen-sulphide-smashes-superconductor-temperature-record
Hydrogen Sulphide Smashes Superconductor Temperature Record
10. https://www.urbandharma.org/pdf/TheJhanas.pdf
The Jhanas in Theravada Buddhist Meditation.
https://books.google.com.my/books?isbn=8120808711