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“The human body, as well as all other matter, is just emptiness. It is an illusion created by God’s thought.”
“So you want to say that this tree and I are basically identical because we are emptiness?” Nikolai
Andreevich asked half in jest, passing by a big tree.
“Basically, yes.” Sensei grinned and added in a more serious way, “Your matter, as well as that of the tree,
is generated by one and the same initial energy, but modified and transformed into different wave states. Hence
the difference in material features. What does a human body consist of? A body, as you know, consists of a
system of organs, organs consist of tissues, tissues consist of groups of cells. Cells consist of basic chemical
elements. And 269
the greatest part of a body, about 98% of it, is made up of oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen, and 2%
are other chemical elements.”
“I don’t understand, how is that?” These words accidentally escaped my lips.
“Well, for example, for 50 kg of your weight, the allocation formula will be as follows,” Sensei looked a few seconds
at my body as though estimating something, and then said, “Oxygen in various isotope states 30.481 kg, isotopes of carbon
11.537 kg, isotopes of hydrogen 5.01 kg, and isotopes of nitrogen 1.35 kg. That is 48.378 kg in total. Well, and I won’t list
all other elements where the weight is just grams. In general, they account for only 1.622 kg of the total weight… If we are
going to be more exact and add everything that hasn’t been digested: the remains of ice-cream, sweets, and the drink that
are not included in a chemical reaction of your body, then… in total, the weight of your body will amount to 50 kg and
625 grams.”
I was simply struck by such high-speed calculations of my body at just one glance. I had never thought
about the structure of my matter. Meanwhile, Sensei continued to address Nikolai Andreevich,
“So then, what are our chemical elements? It is molecules which make up a cell and exist according to their
own biophysical laws. Note that there is emptiness around molecules. Let's go deeper. Molecules consist of
atoms, and between them again there is emptiness. Atoms consist of a nucleus and electrons rotating around
them, and between them there is emptiness. The nucleus of an atom again consists of elementary particles –
protons and neutrons – with the same inherent emptiness between them. Let us note that variations of a
chemical element differ in the number of neutrons in an atomic nucleus, which is a feature of isotopy. Protons
and neutrons which form the nucleus of an atom also consist of smaller particles. So look, each time when
physicists make the next step, a new level of knowledge opens up to them, expanding their relative borders
beyond the horizon of infinite knowledge. Simply, as much as human perfected a microscope, that is the extent
to which he learnt the nature of the microcosm. I shall not continue enumerating what is divided into what, but
in the end, division comes to absolute emptiness out of which everything is born. It exists everywhere, both in
a microcosm and in a macrocosm. That is pure energy which is called ‘Po,’ making up an integrated field of
interaction of all kinds of energies and, therefore, variations of the matter arising from it. That is why it is said
that God is omnipresent. It is the pulses of energy Po that generate the waves that change the curvature of
material space and time. That is, in the depth of its essence, all matter is a set of a certain kind of waves and
exists according to laws of the wave nature.”