In my opinion, there are two unbreakable precepts for scientists. First, matter has a material existence. Second, objective and repeatable experiments are the decisive standards in testing scientific truth.
These two precepts have become the theoretical basis for the war on "superstition." But Albert Einstein broke the precepts. He told us, "The matter that we see is actually transformed from energy." Our scientific instruments can only present the most superficial form of matter; they can not help us to understand how matter is transformed. It is not that our scientists are not intelligent. They just cannot understand the limitations of science itself. Scientific inventions or discoveries are confined to the scope delimited by the time and space that we are able to observe through our material sensory organs. Thus, these inventions and discoveries are nothing but imitations and a reappearance of the laws of the material world. Humans exists in the material world and constantly exchange energy and information with it. As a result, our senses have become more and more used to the feelings of the material world and thus take the material illusion as the reality. Furthermore, because people all share the same feelings, everyone takes this for granted. Illusion, therefore, has become truth. If the modern quantum mechanics had not broken this illusion of the material world, human being would have been even more materialistic. Some people think that only those phenomena, which can be repeatedly tested by experiments, are scientific and objective. In fact, this "objectivity" is subjective in itself. Einstein once said that the results of observation depend on the methods used. More simply put, they depend on the realm in which we exist. In fact, the so-called "objective standards" are nothing but the methods scientists use to observe the world. This is similar to the case where the policemen make a set of traffic rules: Stop on the red light and go on the green. It is for nothing but convenience. Our methods and rules have to change when dealing with different objects. Can you use a ruler to measure sound waves?
If you were a physicist, would you be surprised at this fact, i.e., at the time of nirvana, bodies of the Lamas in Tibet are transformed into beams of light. In the world we exist, light travels the fastest. Then who accelerates those bodies into light? Where does this energy come from? Have you ever thought about the possibility of a microscopic world composed of "spiritual atoms"? These "spiritual atoms" move in an unthinkable way, as if they had minds, and they possess energies beyond our imagination. If you want to understand them, you must improve your own spirit. In other words, you must give up the attachment to this material world, in order to be able to get together with like-beings. If you are a biologist, have you thought about the possibility of spiritual inheritance? Can you really clone Adolph Hitler's genes to produce a person with the same mind? If you believe in the theory of evolution and feel complacent when fossils of monkeys of closer resemblance to humans are discovered, how would you answer this question: The egg of a duck is similar to that of a chicken; then, is it true that chickens are evolved from ducks? If you have studied the theories of Karl Marx, you would know that this would have violated the principles of "inner reasons are decisive." If it was the environment that made monkeys turn into humans, then why aren't the monkeys extinct nowadays? Why has it been impossible for scientists to train chimpanzees to behave like human no matter how hard they have tried? Although a monkey or chimpanzee looks like a human being, its inner intelligence and spirit differs drastically. Monkeys never look upon the stars and think about rules of morality. If you are a psychologist, and you perform psychological studies using methods like dogs secreting saliva, chimpanzees moving the banana, brain chemistry, or neuron electrophysiology, how far do you think you are from the feelings of human beings? If you talk to a Falun Gong practitioner, you will be shocked by their experiences. You will find the huge difference between the understanding and expression of this world among different people, all depending on their realm of awareness. You have probably seen the very popular movie "Titanic." Don't you think that it is an unintended reflection of our humankind? Isn't our mankind a lot like this ship, luxurious on the surface and rotten inside? If you are an archeologist and have worked very hard looking for traces of disappeared civilizations, have you thought of this: "Every piece of cultural artifacts could contain all the information of that civilization? " If you are a linguist, do you believe that human beings can exchange ideas through better ways? If you care about the society and worry about the shocking speed at which technology has been developing, don't you feel that the ultimate goal of scientific development is to make a human's life easier, free from constraints of the material world, and prepare for the generation of a new civilization? If ...
Faced with these questions that are almost impossible to answer, we really don't know where to start. Plus, to find answers within the theoretical system of modern science is even harder. In fact, like I have said previously, the understanding of the truth depends on one's realm of awareness. To convince someone in a different realm is more difficult than climbing the sky, unless you manage to enter the other person's realm. One must change one's "feeling" in order to have breakthroughs in the new science. When one enters the realm, everything will be clear. Before that, it is really hard to make genuine progress, no matter how many experiments one does or how many guesses one makes. I believe that the science of the future will change: from microscopic analysis to macroscopic research, from testing through obtaining results via objective experiments to testing inside certain realms, from "outside" to "inside," from within this time and space to beyond, from the belief that spirit and matter are separate to the belief that they are the same. The achievements of the new science shall significantly change our understanding of this world and the universe, and promote the sudden change and leap forward for humankind.
Written and contributed to Minghui by an anonymous
April 19, 2000
(Translated on May 30, 2000)
Category: Perspective
