Mankind is now enjoying tremendous progress, thanks to Science and Technology, but unfortunately, that progress has not brought full certainty and complete happiness to mankind. Terrible war is still a hovering threat, and civil strife is rampant across the globe. Discrimination and oppression are the norm. There is wickedness at the national and collective level. People are still looking at the future with skepticism and disappointment.
The reason that human civilization is still imbalanced and limping along is because, from the beginning until now, we have sought progress and accomplishments that result from science, technology, and the physical realm, completely ignoring the non-physiognomy[1] (here, we meant to say the Unborn Mind[2]) aspects of reality and its attributes. These are truly very important and essential as the foundation for a peaceful life and advancement. The failure to study and apply the Unborn Mind aspects of reality has imbalanced and limping civilization.
Understanding thoroughly and explaining clearly the non-physiognomy will address life’s most fundamental matters. It will also lead to the insight of the Nature’s Essence, Reality, and the State of the Universe before the first Big Bang occurred. As such, the whole mystery of the Universe before the first Big Bang, as well as after the first Big Bang, can be studied and answered using the unborn mind in each living person as the starting point, not from the describable and physical.
Therefore, interminable meditation, perceiving nature, emptiness nature, the Essence and the State of the Universe before the Big Bang, all have a linear and closed relationship.
Big Bang has created a describable world as they are, then its state before the Big Bang is the non-existence state, empty, silent is obviously reasonable. This mind state of empty silent, non-existence itself is the: Steven Hawking’s “Nothing was around”, as he responded in a Star Talk show by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.[3]
However, and of course, Professor Hawking based his finding only on his wide scientific knowledge, in other words, through the describable and physical, and did not study about the non-physiognomy. Therefore, we would like to address the non-physiognomy aspect by a summary as follows:
Before the first Big Bang, the Universe was in a state like the empty silent mind. Its non-imaged appearance is an immense, boundless Samadhi,[4] which can be found right in the empty mind of each of us and in the end unit of all things.
The bliss tones (strings) released from the bliss of the universe, which are resembled as the bliss tones in samadhi (in meditation) perceived in a meditator’s feeling. The two tones found and intertwined into each other in the emptiness-mind-like Universe, resembling the searching for bliss between two people. Big Bang bursts like bliss, like the blissful climax between two lovers, which results after two people find, love, and intertwine into each other. This burst of ecstasy has arrived after a few moments of crunching (contraction), which is a burst and expansion bliss throughout the bodies of the two individuals. The combination of a male’s sperm and a female’s egg into a multiplication of cells to become a new human (birth) carried an image of the repetition of the Big Bang phenomenon with mutated particles intertwining and overlapping.
* [Heisenberg: Werner Heisenberg won the 1932 Nobel Price in Physics:
“The world is like a complex chain of events, in which interrelated events intertwine, they overlap and combine together, thereby determining the basis of the whole.”
Human beings themselves carry all the changes in the Universe that have evolved from the beginning to the present, and the present man is also still changing and evolving, like the astronomical changes in the vast Universe, or the atomic changes in particles, in quarks which are only transformations, arising and ceasing at the atomic scale. I provide thorough details and a complete explanation of these phenomena in my book.
Finally, with a thorough understanding of these basics, combined with the enormous resources available from science and technology, human beings will eliminate all the scourges of humanity described above. When we seek progress founded on both wisdom, we can gain from the not-real existence look[5], i.e., the world not seen by naked eyes, but by one’s awakened awareness, and on science and technology; the progress will be harmonious, and no longer lame, lacking, and negative as before.
We seek to orient human progress toward a symbiotic and closed cooperation between the unborn Mind[6] or the awakened awareness and Science. To that end, we hope to have a progressive human civilization in a genuine peace.
Thus, the cover image of this work combines three special symbols:
1) Einstein’s famous formula, E = mc2;
2) An image of the Big Bang explosion; and
3) the Honored Buddha standing behind.
Why do we have the Honored Buddha standing behind? It is because Buddhism will provide a clear explanation of the value of emptiness mind, allowing us to understand clearly the Essence, as well as the way to return to the ultimate, eternal peace and happiness contained in the Essence.
Just as the remarks from the author Egerton C. Baptist in his work “Supreme Science of the Buddha“, he wrote: “Buddhism begins where science ends”.
May our readers receive this work with an open perspective, not with hasty, brief, and mechanical judgment, but with patience and an inquiring mind. Because once you understand, you will find a path to peace and happiness for yourself and for all of humanity, without a need for religion, without a need to rely on any deity, without a need for mysterious and difficult to understand equations, but only one’s own simple, gentle, untarnished Mind.
I would like to have the honor of introducing my dear readers to the work, Before the Big Bang: A Declaration.
Footnotes:
[1] Non-physiognomy: It is there, but we cannot see its image by our naked eyes, we can only perceive by our own emptiness mind.
[2] Unborn Mind: When our mind is in emptiness meditation-state-like, in other words, it is no longer attached to anything, our 6 consciousness (senses from eyes, ear, nose, tongue, skin, thought) are no longer ‘running after” the 6 objects and arise (born). i.e. when hearing some noise, no matter how loud it is, you are not bothered, when eating something, tongue touched the food, no longer arise the thought of liking or not liking, eat of not eat, angry at the chef if not satisfied with the food etc … it is a series of arisings/ceasings which caused life to be miserable!
[3] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/03/06/stephen-hawking-knows-what-happened-before-big-bang/398336002/
[4] The highest state in meditation, in which a person experiences oneness with the universe. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/samadhi?s=t
[5] Not-real existence – All things exist only for some time, then will disintegrate and return to nature – in other words, everything is just like hologram, not-real existing. The physical world is here only as a combination of things, and at some point in time, will break up.
[6] Once one can live in the unborn mind, his love will be automatically widely openned to all sentient beings, therefore the scientific progress from him will be oriented truly toward the best for all.