Insubstantiality

Wednesday
There was another great Horizon programme on last night about measurement, sort of, which supported the idea that it's just a load of old photons, Jack!

It was going on about quantam mechanics again. Apparently, when a photon hits a plant cell, the conversion of light energy into chemical energy works at 98%. You might have expected about 50% except the photon is in more than one place at once in this cell. What? So if it wasn't for particles being able to be in numerous places at the same time, we'd all be starving to death.

In the Medicine Buddha Sadhana juju we are supposed to imagine ourselves being the Medicine Buddha and also facing the Medicine Buddha at the same time. Is this a correspondence? Maybe not, but interesting anyway.

This woman also said that if we take out the space between particles, you could reduce the whole of the human race to the size of a sugar cube. I suppose it would be a pretty heavy sugar cube with all the fat basturns going around, but shows how insubstantial everything really is.

The Medicine Buddha arises from death as a light being without much substance at all.

Interstingly enough, if you're trying to realise emptiness, you're supposed to be reducing the concreteness of the world, or the way the world seems. I think it's supposed to seem pretty insubstantial. We're hardly anything other than space, it seems.

But it doesn't look like that, Hotboy. With your head stuck up your backside, what do you expect it to look like, Jack?