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To arrive at apparent existence, the conjunctions of
virtual particles are only waiting to be activated, and the mere fact of
observing them can play a determining role.
Here we are very close to
the absence of duality - between the observer and the observed
- that has been
repeatedly pointed out in the history of Hinduism and Buddhism.
"The thing that is seen is forever inseparable
from the thing that sees,"
said Kun Phyen Pema Karpo in the sixteenth century.
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p. 245
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The Dalai Lama and Jean-Claude Carriere
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Violence and Compassion
Doubleday, 1996
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English translation of Force du bouddhisme (Editions Robert
Laffont-Fixot,1994). Conversations between Bstan-'dsin-rgya-mtsho,
Dalai Lama XIV, and Jean-Claude Carriere. Commentary by Carriere.
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