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Quantum Reality


 


Nichiren Daishonin states in attaining Buddhahood

If you wish to free yourself from the sufferings of birth and death you have endured through eternity and attain supreme enlightenment in this lifetime, you must awaken to the mystic truth which has always been within your life. This truth is Myoho-renge-kyo. Chanting Myoho-renge-kyo will therefore enable you to grasp the mystic truth within you. Myoho-renge-kyo is the king of sutras, flawless in both letter and principle. Its words are the reality of life, and the reality of life is the Mystic Law (Myoho). It is called the Mystic Law because it explains the mutually inclusive relationship of life and all phenomena. That is why this sutra is the wisdom of all Buddhas. Life at each moment encompasses both body and spirit and both self and environment of all sentient beings in every condition of life, as well as insentient beings - plants, sky and earth, on down to the most minute particles of dust.
The culmination of the Buddha's enlightenment was the expression of Ichinen Sanzen which reflects the profound reflection between mind and body, environment and society. Ichinen Sanzen expresses the reality that the life of the human being reaches out into the environment and is inextricably connected with all phenomenal reality. This reality is also coextensive with the universe and the Gohonzon which is the object of worship for observing the mind expresses the enlightenment of the Buddha from time without beginning. This literally means that the jewel of enlightenment shines into our infinite lives from time without beginning and that our lives therefore encompass the universe of past present and future.

This ties up with the concept of the holographic universe and the implicit order expressed by Dr David Bohm who was a friend and colleague of Einstein.

The concept of a holographic universe, means that every bit of information possesses the whole. The reason that everything connects faster than light, is because at a deeper level of reality is everything is all one. This means that everything is one energy manifesting in an infinite diversity.

This one energy can be translated as the Mystic Law, from which everything manifests. The Mystic Law is none other than Nam Myoho Renge Kyo and its crystallization as the Gohonzon.

In the Lotus Sutra the universe does not begin at a big bang it is made quite clear that the universe is fathomless and infinite. Indeed according to Dr David Bohm the universe does not exist in and of itself but is the step child of something far vaster and more ineffable. The implicit order can be translated as a blueprint or a state of realized consciousness within all the possibilities that it can create it creates the material reality that we see around us by collapsing the collective vision of life into a diversity of creativity. By being children of the universe and children of the Buddha within our individual and collective consciousness we share the birthright of co-creation as the universe become self reflective in our own consciousness. The creative reality as expressed in Ichinen Sanzen contains every subatomic particle that has been or will be. It contains all quasars, Shakespeare, the double helix, the galaxies, and the infinite stages of the evolution of humanity.

This new vision of reality is called quantum reality in fact it was established by Nichiren Daishonin in 1253 when he chanted Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time.