The Within of the Within

Buddhitakso

Life Existence - How it begins and continues to begin?

All existence contain with basic elements - energy, matter and space. The basic elements would subject to conditional balance and imbalance phenomena. Under balance phenomenon, the three basic elements start to integrate with each other to create aggregate activities. Under imbalance phenomenon, the three basic elements start to disintegrate from each other to create segregate activities.

The principle in effect: -

A stream of balance phenomena would conjure up aggregate activity; A stream of aggregate activities would conjure up information;
A stream of information would conjure up memory; A stream of memories would conjure up ignorance;
A stream of ignorance would conjure up volitional impulse; A stream of volitional impulses would conjure up consciousness;
A stream of consciousness would conjure up body and mind; A stream of body and mind would conjure up six sense bases;
A stream of six sense bases would conjure up contact; A stream of contacts would conjure up feeling;
A stream of feelings would conjure up craving; A stream of cravings would conjure up clinging;
A stream of clinging would conjure up becoming; A stream of becoming would conjure up birth;
A stream of births would conjure up aging; A stream of aging would conjure up death;
A stream of deaths would conjure up segregate activity; A stream of segregate activities would conjure up imbalance phenomenon;
A stream of imbalance phenomena would conjure up new balance phenomenon.

Energy and Matter

Energy or matter is actually the same thing; both reflected in a different form.  Just like, cause or effect is the same thing; both reflected in a different time of event. Matter is simply something that contains mass and takes up space as a solid, liquid, gas or plasma. The atom is a basic unit of matter that consists of a dense, central nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons. The atomic nucleus contains a mix of positively charged protons and electrically neutral neutrons. In other words, matter is also known as concerted, aggregated or concentrated or wrapped energy.

As scientists have discovered, energy cannot be created or destroyed – it only transforms itself based on any subjected conditions. Therefore, we could summarise that all activities would evolve around the orientation of energy or matter in space at all times.

Energy and Soul

What is energy? It is described as the ability to cause change or do work. Now, let us look at soul. Soul is defined as non-material part of a human body, believed to exist for ever; emotional and intellectual energy. As such, is it incorrect to relate soul as part of the energy aggregates?

On the other hand, you may have heard of the Law of Conservation of Energy that says energy in a system can neither be created nor destroyed. It may take on various forms (e.g. kinetic, potential, heat, light, chemical, nuclear, electrical, mechanical, etc.) Therefore, the sum of all the energies in the system is a constant or never changes.

When a person is lying dead, both the energy and matter aggregates would depart from each other. The energy aggregates would sustain liberties of sort and over time, the matter aggregates would transform into energy aggregates as well before assuming into new life forms and this cyclic process continues repeatedly. Now, let us take a good example of a worn out Personal Computer (PC). Whilst the hardware parts may meet its due time, the software parts may not and it could be recycled and reconfigured before being put to use into another PC.

On another instance, we could summarise that ice, water and steam are different forms derived from the orientation of H2O properties based on subjected conditions. At the end of the day, when ice form ceased to be, the energy aggregates within it may have assumed into water or steam form. The energy aggregates within the ice form did not just die out or cease to exist.

Finally, it is well known that modern scientists that work on hypotheses could not conclusively agree to acknowledge the existence of soul or spirit because of the complication in garnering consistent results at any period of time. However, the so-called soul or spirit could positively be detected by electromagnetic devices and this case scenario has confirmed that soul or spirit is part of the energy aggregates. There are bountiful cases related to soul or spirit available in every corner of the world but still, most investigations lead to mystifying end.