The Tao of Physics

Different cultures produce their own particular way of structuring the world they see around them. They use religion and ritual to explain, to gain control, and to express their own sense of connectedness to their environment. Pre-scientific societies develop their own mythologies to explain the origin of the universe and of human life. Capra notes the development of different cosmologies and finds ways to link them to show how our scientific view of the universe might strengthen views offered by other cultures. He notes the cosmological views in Chinese and Japanese Buddhist societies, for instance, and links the limitations of any given model to the limitations of language. This is something that scientific societies have noted, but it is also something the mystic

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man (91). Buddhism is analyzed next, and it is described as a psychological philosophy. The Buddha was not interested in issues of the origin of the world or the nature of the Divine but in the human situation: His doctrine, therefore, was not one of metaphysics, but one of psychotherapy. He pointed out the origin of human frustrations and the way to overcome them. . . (93). The goal is to achieve enlightenment. Capra finds that the ancient religious text Avatamsaka Sutra offers striking parallels to the models and theories of modern physics. Chinese thought centers on two distinct philosophical schools, Confucianism and Taoism: These two trends of thought represent opposite poles in Chinese philosophy, but in China they were always seen as poles of one and the same human nature, and thus as complementary (102). The Chinese believe there is an ultimate reality underlying all that we see in this world, and this reality is called Tao, and it is the process of the universe. The concepts of Yin and Yang in Chinese philosophy are complex and difficult to grasp, and they are said to be indefinable in the strictest sense because they are such all-embracing conceptions. The terms are used to refer to the two complementary cre
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