Man wants to be secure. Seeking permanence in a world made of temporary. Look around you, your physical possessions. Chair you sit on, almirah, clothes, table, walls and so on. Scientists describe that everything is made of atoms and they appear as such because of space between them. They move in exactly the same way the universe, galaxies, sun and planets move.
Why does a man want to be secure in a world that is temporary? Universe and the world were created with space. Existence is born out of that which is beyond existence and non-existence. That which is is neither created nor uncreated, therefore it is that which is. Scientists call it dark matter. Hindus fondly call it Shiva who is the non-being. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says I am that which is. For being, the non-being is needed. Being is born out of non-being. Seeking to be secure is a being seeking to be non-being.
After creation, space came into existence. Space between things, atoms, earth, sun, moon, planets, galaxies. Space between things created distance. Distance was calculated in time. Space existed in existence. That which is existed as timelessness. Space and distance existed in timelessness in that which is. Time is born out of timelessness.
Time is like flickering specks on the vast infinite canvas of timelessness. Without timelessness time cannot exist.
Man exists in space. For him to exist in existence space is needed. Movement within space is distance. Space and distance exist in existence without time. Let’s enquire how time is born? Time is perceived on the canvas of no time that’s timelessness. Being is a manifestation of the non-being, that which is. If I am, I ought to be not. I am in between two “nots”. I was not, then I am, and I will not be. Man’s existence is between two points of non-existence.
That which is has universal consciousness, that which always was and will always be. Buddha (the awakened) calls it Annatta (‘no-selfness’). The universal consciousness was there before creation and will be there after the end of creation. Like the man exists between two points of non-existence, the whole creation and everything in the creation follow that Order. Man also exists in that One Order. Man is born in the order and dies into the order. The order. Nanak calls it “Hukam” (the command), Shiva calls it “Tantra” (the path), Lao Tzu calls it “Tao” (the way). Universal consciousness is the universal mind and physical universe is the body of that which is. Universal mind is the absolute mind. Absolute mind only happens in emptiness. And all space is created out of emptiness. Creation is born out of emptiness.
When the mind is empty, creation is born. Anything new that is created happens in emptiness. Hindus have known it for thousands of years. Mesmerising grandeur and godly aesthetics and unimaginable masterpieces like the Konark temple, the Taj Mahal and the Ajanta caves, among others, continue to surprise modern men. One wonders how such wonderful monuments must have been built without the use of modern science, architectural intelligence and machines. In fact, such monuments were built by artists in emptiness. In a state of no-mind. Those saint-artists after hours of meditation would begin to sculpt. That’s the key.
No mind is born in emptiness. In that which is which is timeless. No mind happens in timelessness. Mind happens in time. Time is mind. Mind is time. Human mind meets the absolute mind in timelessness. In meeting there is freedom.
These days we promote our children to learn AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning) which are very interesting subjects. Human mind has created artificial intelligence for making machines learn. Subject Machine Learning to make machines learn the ability to function as an extension of human mind and intelligence. But the human mind is scared of the thought of an AI apocalypse. Intelligence assuming singularity posing a risk to human civilisation. Some argue for and against the fact that machines wouldn’t learn the complexity of the human mind.
Someone asked Bhikku, “Do machines have minds?” Bhikku replied, “Why not? Human mind is developed by thousands of years of machine learning in time and space. A computer machine for that matter may learn to see, touch, feel and make the best of decisions all humans could take in a given space and time. Machine operates as a mind using intelligence. Human mind operates as a machine using intelligence. That’s the pity.”
A machine can exist in the known. It can accumulate information of the known and make a decision after computing all known choices. A decision that would be the most probable. But thinkers argue that it may not have a singularity. But super-intelligence may create runaway growth in self-improvement cycles thus surpassing human intelligence. Anyway the information-fed artificial intelligence will become far more super intelligent than humans put together. They eventually will learn what is fed into them — the intelligence of a million humans to drive a car or to surgically operate the human body and work what it is expected to work.
Is AI singularity different from human singularity? Machine is free to do and decide what is fed into it and is expected to do out of the feed. Is human singularity free? Does the human mind exist in freedom? Is the human mind free to do what it is expected to do out of the feed? Mind is an organic machine that learnt all that was known in thousands of years and programmed itself. It has created an artificial self that created the artificiality of intelligence in which the mind exists. Machine already has an artificial self but no real self. For artificiality to be the real is needed.
One has to know that known happens in the infinite slate of unknown. Known is not. Unknown is. When you look at something. Look at a flower. Just look, don’t think it is rose, a tulip, or a lily. Just look. So you are there a looker, flower is there being looked at, and the process of looking is there. Forget looker and looked. Be the looking. That is the moment when creation begins. Mind is not needed. The moment of timelessness.
In existence time and space exist but without artificial intelligence of the mind. Mind is full of artificial intelligence. What is real intelligence? Intelligence is being in time and space without the machine mind. Intelligence is to know the existence — that which is. That’s living. And being in a machine mind is “unloving”.
Thousands of years of doctrines, scriptures, dogmas, and disciplines have brainwashed our mind. We don’t move in creation. Move into the creation. Switch off auto pilot. Take the plane in your hands. Move the throttle forward. Fly away.
If you are facing winds, let the winds enter each cell of your body and pass through you. Be a windpipe. If you are in rains, let the rain enter each cell of your body and pass through you. Be a drainage pipe. It really happens that way; quantum biology calls it tunnelling. Let your being part of the creation which is creating every moment anew and let life be lived. That’s freedom.