Meditations 2/21/19

  From The New York Times article: “According to the Standard Model, the Higgs boson is the only manifestation of an invisible force field, a cosmic molasses that permeates space and imbues elementary particles with mass.  Particles wading through the field gain heft the way a bill going through Congress attracts riders and amendments, becoming ever more ponderous. [The possibility exists that other force fields – bosons – will be discovered.  “String theorists” believe this is so.]

  “Without the Higgs field, as it is known, or something like it, all elementary forms of matter would zoom around at the speed of light, flowing through our hands like moonlight.  There would be neither atoms nor life.” //

  Perhaps now we are given a new perspective on the inspired declaration of Nikkyo Niwano (which had a profound affect on my practice when I first stumbled upon it): We are caused to live by the great life-force of the universe. Caused to live simply because symmetry was broken—the symmetry that is, of all elementary forms of matter broken up by force field(s)  that gives them mass. Energy becomes matter—becomes us. We exist. Sitting in front of the Mandala and proclaiming once again devotion to the “Mysterious Law of the Lotus” I am returning to the symmetry found at the very beginning of time. Today, here and now, another opportunity presents itself to begin again—accepting the miracle of existence.

Here concluding the meditation “The Miracle of Existence” – at Ancestral Well blog (in reverse order)