Daoist Masters believe that the human body is not as simple as we imagine it to be or as we perceive with our human eyes. These excerpts from Zhuan Falun talk about how they believe that the human body is in fact a 'small universe' in the microcosm, fascinating stuff.
Full book here: http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/pdf/zfl_new.pdf
So Daoists consider the human body a small universe, and that makes a lot of sense. They’re not saying that its compositional structure is like the universe’s, they’re not talking about the form our body takes in this material dimension. We want to ask this: what’s the material body’s state below the level of cells as today’s science understands it? There are all kinds of molecular particles, and below molecules there are atoms, protons, nuclei, electrons, quarks, and the smallest microscopic particle that’s been researched so far is the neutrino.
So what’s the absolute smallest microscopic particle? It’s just too hard to research. In his later years Shakyamuni said, "It is so large that it has no exterior, and so small that it has no interior." And what’s that mean? It means that at the Tathagata level, in terms of largeness, you can’t see the edge of the universe, and in terms of smallness, you can’t see the smallest microscopic particle of matter. That’s why he said, "It is so large that it has no exterior, and so small that it has no interior."
Shakyamuni also put forth the theory of 3,000 boundless universes. He said that in the Milky Way galaxy of our universe there are 3,000 planets that have beings with carnal bodies on them, just like the human race. He also said that a grain of sand has 3,000 boundless universes like this one in it, so a grain of sand is like a universe, with intelligent human beings like us in it, and there are planets like this one, and mountains and rivers.
Sounds hard to believe, right?! If it’s true, then let’s think, isn’t there sand in those universes? And in each of those grains of sand, aren’t there 3,000 boundless universes there, too? Then isn’t there sand in those 3,000 boundless universes? And in each of those grains of sand, aren’t there again 3,000 boundless universes? So at the Tathagata level you can’t see the end of it all.
The same goes for human molecular cells. People wonder how large the universe is. I can tell you that this universe does have boundaries, but even at the Tathagata level it still seems like it’s boundless and infinite. But the inside of the human body, going from its molecules down to its microscopic particles in the microcosm, it’s as large as this universe. I know it sounds hard to believe. In the extreme microcosm of what makes up a human being, or any being, his nature and the unique elements of his being have been formed.
So our modern science’s research on this is still miles away. The level of our human race’s science and technology is pretty low when you compare it to that of the beings of higher wisdom on other planets in the greater universe. We don’t even have the ability to break through dimensions that exist at the same time and in the same place, while the flying saucers from other planets can just go and travel in other dimensions, even the concept of space-time changes, so they come and go in the blink of an eye, and it’s so fast nobody can explain it.
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In the cultivation world we say that a person’s soul doesn’t perish. A little while back, if somebody talked about humans having a soul people might have called that blind belief. But we now know from research in physics on the human body that there are molecules, protons, and electrons in it, and going further down, there are quarks, neutrinos, and so on, and at that point even a microscope can’t see anything. But that’s still far from the origin of life or the origin of matter. And we know that nuclear fission takes a huge amount of energy for collision to happen and a huge amount of heat for the nuclei to undergo fusion or for fission to take place.
Then when a person dies, do you really think the nuclei in his human body just die like that? So we’ve found that when someone dies, it’s only the components of him that are in this dimension of ours, this layer of the largest molecules, it’s only them that get shed, while his bodies in other dimensions aren’t destroyed. Let’s think for a minute. What’s the human body look like under a microscope? A person’s whole body is moving, even if you’re just sitting there still, your whole body is moving, your molecular cells are moving, and your whole body is loose, as if it’s made of sand.
That’s what the human body looks like under a microscope, and it’s totally different from the body our eyes see. The reason is, this pair of human eyes can create an illusion for you, and they keep you from seeing those things. But when your Third Eye is open you can magnify things to look at them, and that’s actually an innate ability of human beings, only now it’s called a supernatural ability. If you want to have your supernatural abilities come out, you have to return to your original, true self, you have to cultivate back.
Let’s talk a little about this virtue thing. Just how exactly are they related? We’ll explore it a bit. We human beings have a body in each of many, many dimensions. The largest component of the human body, as people today see it, is the cell. And that’s the case for our flesh and blood, at least. But when you go in between cells and molecules, or in between molecules and molecules, you’ll experience what it’s like to enter other dimensions. So what form does that body take? Of course, you can’t understand it with concepts from this dimension right here: your body has to assimilate to the forms of being required in those dimensions, and in other dimensions your bodies are capable, by design, of expanding and shrinking. At that time you’ll discover that that dimension is so vast it’s beyond compare. Here I’m just talking about a simple form in which other dimensions exist, and those are dimensions that exist at the same time and in the same place.
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That was something we had to discuss in talking about the Third Eye, because when you’re running outward in your passageway you’ll feel like it’s boundless and endless. Some people might see another situation, where they’ll feel like they aren’t running along a tunnel, but like they’re running along a broad and endless road, and on both sides of the road there are mountains, there’s water, and cities, and they keep running outward. Sounds even harder to believe, right? I remember something one qigong master used to say: he’d say that even in one single pore of yours there’s a city, and there are trains and cars running in it.
People who heard that were really surprised, and they thought it was a little far-fetched. Now, we know that material things are composed of molecules, atoms, and protons at their microscopic level, and you can trace it all the way down. If at each level you’re able to see the plane of that level instead of a single point—if you can see the plane of molecules’ level, the plane of atoms’ level, the plane of protons’ level, the plane of nuclei’s level—you’ll see the forms in which different dimensions exist. All material things, and this includes the human body, they all exist simultaneously with, and are connected to, the dimensional levels of the universe’s dimensions.
In modern physics when they study the microscopic particles of matter, they only study one microscopic particle at a time, and do that through sectional analysis and fission, and they just study its post-fission composition after the nucleus undergoes fission. Now if we had an instrument that could unfold its whole plane and let you see a complete display of all the atomic elements or molecular elements at that level, if you could view that, you would have broken through this dimension and seen the reality of another dimension. Human bodies correspond to external dimensions, and they all have forms of being like that.
Full book here: http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/pdf/zfl_new.pdf
So Daoists consider the human body a small universe, and that makes a lot of sense. They’re not saying that its compositional structure is like the universe’s, they’re not talking about the form our body takes in this material dimension. We want to ask this: what’s the material body’s state below the level of cells as today’s science understands it? There are all kinds of molecular particles, and below molecules there are atoms, protons, nuclei, electrons, quarks, and the smallest microscopic particle that’s been researched so far is the neutrino.
So what’s the absolute smallest microscopic particle? It’s just too hard to research. In his later years Shakyamuni said, "It is so large that it has no exterior, and so small that it has no interior." And what’s that mean? It means that at the Tathagata level, in terms of largeness, you can’t see the edge of the universe, and in terms of smallness, you can’t see the smallest microscopic particle of matter. That’s why he said, "It is so large that it has no exterior, and so small that it has no interior."
Shakyamuni also put forth the theory of 3,000 boundless universes. He said that in the Milky Way galaxy of our universe there are 3,000 planets that have beings with carnal bodies on them, just like the human race. He also said that a grain of sand has 3,000 boundless universes like this one in it, so a grain of sand is like a universe, with intelligent human beings like us in it, and there are planets like this one, and mountains and rivers.
Sounds hard to believe, right?! If it’s true, then let’s think, isn’t there sand in those universes? And in each of those grains of sand, aren’t there 3,000 boundless universes there, too? Then isn’t there sand in those 3,000 boundless universes? And in each of those grains of sand, aren’t there again 3,000 boundless universes? So at the Tathagata level you can’t see the end of it all.
The same goes for human molecular cells. People wonder how large the universe is. I can tell you that this universe does have boundaries, but even at the Tathagata level it still seems like it’s boundless and infinite. But the inside of the human body, going from its molecules down to its microscopic particles in the microcosm, it’s as large as this universe. I know it sounds hard to believe. In the extreme microcosm of what makes up a human being, or any being, his nature and the unique elements of his being have been formed.
So our modern science’s research on this is still miles away. The level of our human race’s science and technology is pretty low when you compare it to that of the beings of higher wisdom on other planets in the greater universe. We don’t even have the ability to break through dimensions that exist at the same time and in the same place, while the flying saucers from other planets can just go and travel in other dimensions, even the concept of space-time changes, so they come and go in the blink of an eye, and it’s so fast nobody can explain it.
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In the cultivation world we say that a person’s soul doesn’t perish. A little while back, if somebody talked about humans having a soul people might have called that blind belief. But we now know from research in physics on the human body that there are molecules, protons, and electrons in it, and going further down, there are quarks, neutrinos, and so on, and at that point even a microscope can’t see anything. But that’s still far from the origin of life or the origin of matter. And we know that nuclear fission takes a huge amount of energy for collision to happen and a huge amount of heat for the nuclei to undergo fusion or for fission to take place.
Then when a person dies, do you really think the nuclei in his human body just die like that? So we’ve found that when someone dies, it’s only the components of him that are in this dimension of ours, this layer of the largest molecules, it’s only them that get shed, while his bodies in other dimensions aren’t destroyed. Let’s think for a minute. What’s the human body look like under a microscope? A person’s whole body is moving, even if you’re just sitting there still, your whole body is moving, your molecular cells are moving, and your whole body is loose, as if it’s made of sand.
That’s what the human body looks like under a microscope, and it’s totally different from the body our eyes see. The reason is, this pair of human eyes can create an illusion for you, and they keep you from seeing those things. But when your Third Eye is open you can magnify things to look at them, and that’s actually an innate ability of human beings, only now it’s called a supernatural ability. If you want to have your supernatural abilities come out, you have to return to your original, true self, you have to cultivate back.
Let’s talk a little about this virtue thing. Just how exactly are they related? We’ll explore it a bit. We human beings have a body in each of many, many dimensions. The largest component of the human body, as people today see it, is the cell. And that’s the case for our flesh and blood, at least. But when you go in between cells and molecules, or in between molecules and molecules, you’ll experience what it’s like to enter other dimensions. So what form does that body take? Of course, you can’t understand it with concepts from this dimension right here: your body has to assimilate to the forms of being required in those dimensions, and in other dimensions your bodies are capable, by design, of expanding and shrinking. At that time you’ll discover that that dimension is so vast it’s beyond compare. Here I’m just talking about a simple form in which other dimensions exist, and those are dimensions that exist at the same time and in the same place.
---
That was something we had to discuss in talking about the Third Eye, because when you’re running outward in your passageway you’ll feel like it’s boundless and endless. Some people might see another situation, where they’ll feel like they aren’t running along a tunnel, but like they’re running along a broad and endless road, and on both sides of the road there are mountains, there’s water, and cities, and they keep running outward. Sounds even harder to believe, right? I remember something one qigong master used to say: he’d say that even in one single pore of yours there’s a city, and there are trains and cars running in it.
People who heard that were really surprised, and they thought it was a little far-fetched. Now, we know that material things are composed of molecules, atoms, and protons at their microscopic level, and you can trace it all the way down. If at each level you’re able to see the plane of that level instead of a single point—if you can see the plane of molecules’ level, the plane of atoms’ level, the plane of protons’ level, the plane of nuclei’s level—you’ll see the forms in which different dimensions exist. All material things, and this includes the human body, they all exist simultaneously with, and are connected to, the dimensional levels of the universe’s dimensions.
In modern physics when they study the microscopic particles of matter, they only study one microscopic particle at a time, and do that through sectional analysis and fission, and they just study its post-fission composition after the nucleus undergoes fission. Now if we had an instrument that could unfold its whole plane and let you see a complete display of all the atomic elements or molecular elements at that level, if you could view that, you would have broken through this dimension and seen the reality of another dimension. Human bodies correspond to external dimensions, and they all have forms of being like that.
