Writer Between Worlds

“Alan Wallace wrote, ‘Human beings define the objects and events of the world that we experience. Those things do not exist intrinsically, or absolutely, as we define or conceive of them. They do not exist intrinsically at all. But this is not to say that they do not exist. The entities that we identify exist in relation to us, and they perform the function that we attribute to them. But their very existence, as we define them, is dependent upon our verbal and conceptual designations.’ (…) Schrödinger warned us against such a materialistic view of atoms and their constituents: ‘It is better not to view a particle as a permanent entity, but rather as an instantaneous event. Sometimes these events link together to create the illusion of permanent entities.’”

Ricard, M., Thanh T.X. – The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to Where Science and Buddhism Meet