and then downvotes it
I hate that this is popular. This is a creationist level understanding of the big bang.
You ever use a spray can for a while and the can gets cold? It’s more like that.
The buddha explained this 2500 years ago
According to the Lotus Sutra the Earth is also a sentient being.
The Chan School of Buddhism says that all phenomena are mind. There is nothing that is not mind. We, as humans, are a mind in a mind.
No that’s not exactly right. It’s not that everything is only mind. Our subjective experience is only mind, you don’t actually see experience as it is but instead your experience of life is only mind in the sense it gets filtered by your sensory apparatus and hence it isn’t real as you don’t really sense reality as you are capable of. Doesn’t mean reality doesn’t exist if you’re not looking
The paragraphing has gone all the way through readable back to “I’m not reading this”.
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
Carl Sagan.
This Carl guy sounds pretty smart. Maybe he should study physics or something.
Maybe he should try his hand at teaching too, it seems like he’s got a unique skill for simplifying complicated concepts.
