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Chapter Four Einstein’s Beginner’s Mind Shunrio Suzuki, the great Zen master who first introduced Zen to the West is quoted as saying, “Achieving enlightenment is not difficult. What is difficult is maintaining a beginner’s mind.” Most Westerners, when they hear this for the first time have no idea what he means. It sounds ridiculous. Our…
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Chapter One Newton’s Dilemma Gravity Let us travel back in time to that semi-apocryphal story of Sir Isaac Newton under the apple tree. The apple falls and bops him on the head. Eureka! Newton suddenly grasps that what makes the apple fall is the same force that makes the moon orbit the earth. The modern…
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Introduction Three Quarters of Reality Since 1905 with the publication of Albert Einstein’s “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” aka Special Relativity, the world has known that unlike our sensory experience of living in three dimensions, we in fact live in a four dimensional universe which Einstein labeled “Space-Time.” Even the general public is pretty…
4D - The Mass of Nows 