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00:00BUDDHISM AND QUANTUM PHYSICS
00:04RELIGION AND SCIENCE
00:07IN SEARCH OF AN EXPLANATION FOR SPIRITUAL PHENOMENONS
00:21A small place near Porto Alegre
00:24and a name full of meanings
00:26Caminho do Meio
00:28A place to bring buddhism closer to western culture
00:32The person in charge of this mission
00:34was a professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
00:37He is a master in quantum physics
00:40Alfredo Avellini was born
00:42but 10 years ago he was ordained a spiritual leader
00:45with the name Lama Padmasambhava
00:52For a buddhist master
00:54there can be a Caminho do Meio
00:56between science and spirituality
00:58It only depends on the eyes of the one who sees
01:01Quantum physics may have introduced this point
01:05the recovery of the role of the observer
01:08the importance of the observer
01:10About 100 years ago
01:12scientists discovered that in the world of very small things
01:16inside the molecules that form the universe
01:19and the human body too
01:21matter has a behavior at least strange
01:24Here, inside each atom
01:26waves and particles mix
01:28depending on how the scientist makes the observation
01:32Electrons behave both as particles
01:35and as energy waves
01:37They are neither one nor the other
01:39This discovery made many theorists see there
01:43a possibility of scientific explanation
01:46for spiritual phenomena
01:49The physicist of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
01:53Enrique Lins de Barros
01:55disagrees with this interpretation
01:57but does not deny the surprises and mysteries
02:00that quantum physics introduced in contemporary science
02:03In quantum physics
02:05electrons or atomic particles
02:07can overcome obstacles
02:10That is, it would correspond in a macroscopic physics
02:13in our physics
02:15to you touching a wall
02:17and go to the other side of the wall
02:19without having a door
02:20and without ever having been inside the wall
02:24And how many doubts
02:26how many questions arose from these discoveries
02:29This is an observation that makes us abandon
02:31the question, what is the true reality?
02:34I have realities for each one
02:37and it is necessary that we can deal with people
02:39in the reality where they feel they are
02:42The Buddhist Center Caminho do Meio
02:45attracts people for whom achievements
02:47such as house, car and professional success
02:50are less important today
02:52At the site they share tasks
02:57They feed on vegetarian food
03:00A simple life in search of inner peace
03:03harmony, happiness
03:06Who lives here believes
03:08that it is possible to travel out of the body
03:11that there are past lives
03:13and that this life of now
03:15continues even after death
03:17For them, all this is very natural
03:19And if science will be able one day
03:21explain all these phenomena
03:23little matters
03:25After all, they are teachings
03:27that have been passed on for more than 2,600 years
03:30that inspire this way of seeing the world
03:32It's a matter of language
03:35These phenomena are all natural
03:37Instead of thinking like this
03:39we have lives and deaths
03:41we say there is a consciousness
03:43that goes through the appearance of life and death
03:47In this simple house made of wood
03:49in the middle of the forest
03:51they make retreats of up to three months
03:53most of the time in silence
03:58A great intimacy with nature
04:00that brings a lot of peace
04:02Eduardo is slowly discovering
04:04He made a lot of money
04:06creating websites on the internet
04:08but he was not happy
04:10even thinking he had everything he needed
04:13Then you begin to realize
04:15that you depend a lot
04:17on external things
04:20people or objects
04:23Then you begin to realize
04:25that you are depositing all your happiness
04:27in the external world
04:29And living with much less
04:31Everything was very fleeting
04:33It was a happiness that was not permanent
04:35As if we were on a roller coaster of emotions
04:39You meet someone
04:41in these tragedies of our world
04:43Someone who says
04:45My wife, do you know that wife?
04:47She left
04:49He is very bad, he is crying
04:51Three months pass and he is smiling
04:53How are you smiling?
04:55Did the wife come back? No, no
04:57Now I found another wonderful person
05:00So this is the fact
05:02We consider everything very solid
05:04But life itself breaks these prisons
05:06Why? Because these prisons are not true
05:08And what is true?
05:10The fact that we are free beings
05:14And just like the electrons
05:16that can mysteriously cross walls
05:18spirituality can be the way out
05:21when it seems that there is nowhere else to go
05:25I would say that spirituality
05:27in the Buddhist vision
05:29is the science of the or-not
05:31That is, we are completely trapped
05:33I am surrounded by fear
05:35There is no solution
05:37I am trapped
05:39There is no way out
05:41Or not
05:43Why? Because there is not
05:45effectively a rigidity in the world
05:47where we apparently live
05:49This is the reason why spirituality is fundamental
05:51The world is spiritual