Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts

Monday, May 03, 2010

Where Science and Buddhism Meet


 This is a beautiful movie on Emptiness, interconnectivity and the nature of reality. It makes the case that Non Material and Material, Intuitive and Rationalistic, Spiritual and Scientific are actually two ways of understanding one reality; two sides of the same coin. A very important thing to keep in mind while watching this is there is a large discrepancy between how we perceive reality and how reality really is.

Buddha said that reality arises from emptiness; a non dual and infinite source. For instance the chair you are sitting on, the computer you are looking at, even your body is arising in this moment from emptiness . Emptiness can be understood as a field of potential where every possibility arises. Emptiness is the same as the Tao in Taoism , Brahman in Hinduism and the Quantum field in Quantum physics. Atoms are 99.999999999999% empty space. This forces us to redefine how we see ourselves and reality. If our bodies and everything around us is pretty much empty space, why do things appear and feel like solid shapes? Our hands do not actually touch anything. There is a repulsive force between the atoms of our hands and the object we are touching. This creates the illusion of solidity. Matter is nothing but those regions of space where the electromagnetic Quantum field is most intense. Everything in the universe is interconnected. The appearance that we are separate from everything else is just an illusion.


Saturday, January 26, 2008

तारे ज़मीन पर - (Tare Zameen Par) Lyrics

Saw the Movie Tare Zameen Par a couple of weeks back. This instantly reminded me of Soichiro Hondas words - The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred... This movie had definitely stirred my soul :-). The movie is about an urban Indian kid who is unable to do any regular school stuff. He has the psychological condition called Dyslexia. To others he seems "retarded" and lazy. He finds it difficult to read, learn, comprehend complex conditions and keeps failing in all his subjects. How will society treat such a child? especially Indian society? where it is paramount that your child grows up to be a professional in traditional disciplines - medicine, engineering etc. How will his teachers, peers, parents and brother react to his condition? They all think he must just be stupid and lazy. The movie is heart wrenching. a must see. Anyways, I wrote this blog not about the movie but about one particular song in the movie called Kholo Kholo. and specifically about this stanza

तू धुप है जम से भिखार
तू है नदी ओ बेखबर
बह चल कहीं
उड़ चल कहीं
दिल खुश जहाँ
तेरी तो मंजिल है वोही

Tu dhop hai jam se bhikhar
Tu hai nadi o bekhabhar
Beh chal kahin
Ud chal kahin
Dil khush jahan
Teri to manzil hai wohi

You are the Sunlight, Shine with abandon
You are the River O ignorant one
Flow away some where
Fly away some where
where the heart finds happiness
That alone is your destiny!

Echoes of Antiquity: Rediscovering the Ancient Indian Roots of Modern AI Ontologies

For many, the story of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the formal structuring of knowledge (Ontology) begins in ancient Greece with Aristot...