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.
p. 245
The Dalai Lama and Jean-Claude Carriere Violence and Compassion
Doubleday, 1996
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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