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　　Anuttara Samyak 270-- --90 apprehension of

　　the

　　Sambodhi nature of

　　suffering

　　Turning the wheel of

　　Samsara/Karma through lust,

　　hatred & confusion

　　0

　　|

　　|

　　360

　　Turning the Wheel of Dharma

　　through compassion and wisdom;

　　seeing things just as they are

　　At 0 degree is samsara. Here the Wheel of Karma keeps turning on and on, fueled by anger, greed and ignorance. An urgency to change, to get out of the realm of suffering leads one to

　　90 degrees. Here one has an intellectual awareness of the Four Noble Truths and the Chain of Dependent Origination in the Hinayana-Abhidharma sense, but this is dry cognition. When one follows this dry cognition with a deep experience of meditation samadhi, one reaches the experience of

　　180 degrees. This is the experience of Complete Stillness, of sunyata, of cessation. Here the mind becomes completely silent and personal and societal conditioning disappears. In Zen terms, this is the realization of Buddha-Nature. A thorough absorption in this samadhi leads to

　　270 degrees where one acquires the ten powers of Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi. This is the attainment of Buddhahood in traditional Buddhist sense. At the same time one understands from one”s wisdom-eye that in themselves these powers too are empty; this wisdom leads one to

　　360 degrees. This is nirvana in action, Buddhahood manifested in functioning in the world. Here the Wheel of Dharma is turned by employing skillful means (upaya), rooted in wisdom and compassion. Here one finds validation of one”s bodhisattva vows, which is a continuation of what Shakyamuni Buddha did in his forty-five years” teaching career.

　　More than two centuries ago, Voltaire wrote, "Man makes his own gods, forges forever new chains for himself." Today, we live in a post-religious society; our psychological and spiritual needs have transcended the making of gods and forging of new chains for ourselves. Our need today is to find a new paradigm in which the intellectual and the intuitive meet, a paradigm which is rooted in the wisdom of our own meditative experience. Today, researchers in the field of consciousness use terms like "holographic" to describe a new model of the universe in which an inpidual is a "hologram" and exists in a state of "holonomy" in the so-called "holographic" universe.

　　The idea of the universe as an overachieving unity

　　repeated somehow in each of its parts bears a

　　majesty and elegance all its own....The holonomic

　　formulation...resonates with one of the most

　　ancient intuitions of the race, expressed with

　　eloquence and force in Eastern philosophy. It

　　helps account for the essential meaningfulness of

　　existence, the coherent, repeated patterns that we

　　keep discovering at the deepest structure of

　　language, mathematics, and the physical world. It

　　is a necessary consequence of modern quantum

　　theory taken to its logical extreme.[19]

　　The "holographic" model of the universe cannot be replicated in inpiduals by turning it into yet another ideology for societal realignment. Without an experience of sunyata, which allows us to get in touch with our basic humanity, it will be just another concept, subject to disputations and dissertations. But if we are wise enough to learn from the experience of Mahayana mystics and the findings of quantum theory, we can find that:

　　A world of connectedness, potential, and evolution

　　turns us toward a vivid sense of community along

　　with the acceptance of personal responsibility;

　　toward a de-emphasis on competing and winning

　　along with a re-emphasis on participating and

　　experiencing; from aggression toward gentleness

　　and enjoyment; from dominance of nature to

　　blending with nature; from exponential growth in

　　production and consumption to a more moderate,

　　more eco…

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