At Once

At once:

all of reality is at once - this may seem an obvious statement, and on face value it is. But its implications are far reaching and effects deeper than imagined. Truth isn't simply what is seen and experienced on a surface level. Our lives are interpenetrated with subtle actualities, seemingly contradictions of experience and fact. Reality is life through every level to the very point of pure existence. 

or more truthful still, no levels found at all. 

this clearly shown by quantum physics, that at the very base point of existence energy is found indivisible, behaving both as wave and particles. The world is energy, soft and fluid, always made through motion. Yet our experience shows another world. Our lives are lived mostly by touch of solid, reality is the hardness of a chair, the crash of heavy objects to the floor. The quantum view tells us that both are so, true for our touch against the world, as well for the impossibility of anything sold existing to be touched. 

our lives seem to contradict existence. 

but all of reality is at once, wave and particle behaving by way of nature. Nothing contradicted. Before the laws of quantum physics were told, the Buddhist Heart Sutra stated that "form is emptiness, emptiness is form". This is a sutra of subtle understanding, of impermanence, and that life is lived in seeming contradiction. Reality is the harsh lesson of form behaving as the nature of a wave. What we hold now will soon be lost to us. We will hurt and suffer through this loss. But both quantum physics and the Heart Sutra point to the illusion of loss, nothing solid ever existed as a touch, we hold nothing and yet at once all the world is held.  

we suffer through imagined things, gone. 

yet grief is real, pain and sorrow are an experience of reality. None of this is dismissed and all of it is honored, cherished for the love it served. There is no purpose of denial, suffering is true even if our loss still exist in formless nature. Grief and sorrow make no such distinctions. 

reality holds is all at once.

~

Peace, Eric