Can we take our thoughts lightly?

As we walk this path of living wisely and compassionately in these times, it is vital to come back to holding all our perceptions and beliefs lightly.

We human beings are limited in how much we can see, hear, feel, smell, taste, or mentally perceive with our ordinary human senses. We might have to start by being mentally open to the possibility that what seems rock solid and real might be a distortion or at best a limited understanding of a given situation. Humans can see and hear less than 1% of the electromagnetic and acoustic spectrums. 95% of matter and energy in the universe is “dark” - unknown to us. That matter and energy is not measurable. We might feel we are standing still but at any given time we are traveling at a speed of 220 km per second (450,000 miles per hour) because we are part of a moving galaxy. And 90% of cells in a human body are microbial cells and not human cells. The atoms of our body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space. We and our human cells are practically empty, just like an atom is mostly empty. Total human body's weight is held in a volume of a speck of dust.

Overall, physicists agree that much of our universe is empty, dark, or unknowable matter. Going over these things fills me with wonder, awe and humility as well as a sense of limitlessless. We are quite limited in what humans beings can perceive but we also have magical possibilities around and in us. If are all made of empty space and energy, then shifting energy could do anything. We just have to stop the negative limiting narratives??

I can be so sure of my beliefs: I will always be lonely. I will always be sick. I will always be fatigued. The world will end. Humans will always be cruel and greedy. How can we be very sure? We know nothing about what the “dark matter” in the universe is planning. What we consider dark might be compassionate and intelligent. In fact that is what most indigenous and mystical traditional across the world including Buddhism teach. There is great benevolence in the quantum and dark world. Lets stay open. Let us see the harsh and hard truths of the material world and not deny painful truths. Let us love where we can. And let us us also stay open to “quantum” possibilties.