Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being

The body is constantly being born, dying, and transforming. I see how feelings are also impermanent, constantly being born, dying, and transforming. Perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness follow the same law of birth and death. All are impermanent. Before your visit today, I contemplated deeply on the impermanent nature of the five skand

On the atomic, molecular, biochemical, cellular, biosystemic, bodily, and even conscious levels, we are not stable substances at all. We are constantly engaging in a give-and-take with the rest of creation, all simultaneously.

in reality you are not a separate person, not an individual self, but the open space in which all of the little waves of experience—thoughts, sensations, sounds, feelings—come and go. You are, quite literally, what you seek. You are the consciousness that holds the dance of form.

If we are looking for a framework within which to contain the reality we belong to, we eventually have to face the fact that there is a dimension missing from our Chosen Four of space and time. The missing dimension is the one in which everything is in contact with everything else at all times. It is the dimension of unity that coexists with the di