One aspect that many people do not realize is the following. Most get discouraged by simply looking at the idea of how the mind can create solid matter, for example, “our solid bodies.” The mind only creates the “seeds” for material objects.
- For example, the mind does not create our physical body directly. It only creates enough energy for the mental body (gandhabba), and that energy is unimaginably tiny compared to our physical body. (As Einstein confirmed, matter and energy are equivalent. If you convert the mass of a human body to energy, that would be an enormous number in energy units.)
- Just as a tiny seed can grow into a massive tree by absorbing water and nutrients from the soil, an unimaginably small gandhabba (that gets into the womb of a mother) gives rise to the heavy human body by taking in food, first from the mother and then, once outside the womb, by consuming solid food. See #5 of “Kamma Viññāṇa and Nāmarūpa Paricceda Ñāṇa.”
- P.S. Also see #6 of “How Do We See? – Role of the Gandhabba“
- However, to understand advanced posts like those, one must have a good background about kammic energy, viññāṇa, gandhabba, etc.
- May be reading such a post can get someone motivated to get started!
- I am a physicist with a Ph.D., and I can say that what modern science knows is only a tiny fraction of what the Buddha taught. After over ten years, I am still learning the deeper aspects of the Buddha’s teachings! Modern science knows NOTHING about the mind.
