R4B Mastery: Mind and the Quantum Connection

… how does clarity of awareness, focused intention and dissolution of negative emotions enable the manifestation of desired results?

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This post includes links for two independently generated videos that provide profound clarity on the essential scientific and psycho-spiritual basis for specific meditation practices. Clarity of awareness, focused intention and the dissolution of negative emotions/judgments enable the manifestation of desired results. These factors influence the probability of favorable outcomes within the quantum field. But how can this be? Read on and watch the videos for a clear answer.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The dharma wanderer’s awakening continues to unfold over multiple epochs of his life journey. These epochs include PhD training in progressive relaxation training and cognitive behavior therapy, plus psycho-physiological research on stress management and meditation. After presenting his research to a conference in Sweden, he experienced a transformational experience on a ferry dock in Norway that created a step change in his consciousness. He shortly thereafter lept into a multi-year exploration of books, audiotapes and presentations by the ex-Harvard psychologist, Richard Alpert, who began sharing his own dharma journey of awakening. Ram Das became America’s folk guru in the 1970’s. His first few book titles were an illuminating record of his direct experience and the narrative for his personal dharma journey:

Be Here Now – all about living in the present moment;
The Only Dance There Is – finding and traveling on your own path;
Grist for the Mill – what comes up on your journey is grist for the mill of awareness;
Journey of Awakening – a compendium of meditation techniques for mindful awareness and one pointed concentration; and
The Miracle of Love – the transformational power of authentic open hearted love.

A parallel stage of the dharma wanderer’s dharma journey included training in kundalini yoga. This practice involved yogic postures and difficult repetitive movements along with simultaneous chanting of Sanskrit syllables. The dharma wanderer began exploring how to use his training in clinical psychology to develop a related meditation practice that cultivated one-pointed concentration.

He began using carefully formulated aspirational goals in English, repeated in rhythm with breath in rhythm with movement while jogging mindfully. He noticed developmental improvements in the clarity of his awareness and ability to concentrate on a single point of focus. This led to what has morphed into the Ready For Better Method. A free non-commercial website explains this approach to meditational movement.

These practices by the dharma wanderer became surprisingly powerful enablers of manifestation for multiple decades. But during this period he also repeatedly experienced much suffering arising from conditioned beliefs, stress, anger, negative judgments/emotions and sporadically unwise decisions.

His most recent epoch of deeper awakening and expansion of meditation practices has involved a dive into the dharma paradigm and practices, primarily [but not exclusively] arising from the original Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. This current epoch seems to have contributed to a dissolution of the vast bulk of causes and conditions that were likely contributing to the dharma wanderer’s suffering in the relative world.

Noticing and letting go of the contents of conscious awareness in each present moment is fundamental to these practices. Letting go of thoughts and feelings enables the arising of empty awareness, aka rigpa. This is a state from which wisdom awareness is more likely to arise. This is likely to yield insights about the causes and conditions contributing to personal suffering. The related dissolution of personal suffering and manifestation of desired outcomes is clarified below.

Active consideration of these issues yields an unfolding path toward enlightenment, although that term seems to have acquired considerable surplus meaning over several millenia. In his earlier epochs, the dharma wanderer took the term en-lighten-ment to mean imaginally bringing light into the body, visualizing it in the body, and visually send it out of the body. So visualization has been a key aspect of meditation practice for the dharma wanderer and is also fundamental to advanced meditation practices within Tibetan Buddhism. The dharma wanderer has long wondered how awareness, one pointed concentration and visualization practices might impact our direct experience of unfolding reality.

Sections A and B below offer explanations for how these practices impact direct experience via two independently generated videos. These videos and the dharma wanderer’s commentary provide a compelling rationale for testing the quantum entanglement paradigm, because it scientifically explains the beneficial effects of meditation. The quantum entanglement paradigm:

challenges classical scientific determinism based on the most recent quantum research and science;
supports the dharma paradigm’s major premise, as articulated by the original Buddha two and a half millenia ago, that the causes and conditions contributing to personal suffering reside in the mind and can be dissolved by specific meditation practices;
specifically encourages the intentional letting go of attachments, negative emotions and conditioned beliefs that are contributing to dissatisfaction and suffering;
demonstrates that experiential tests over sustained periods of time are likely to confirm the paradigm’s value for individual happiness and human society.

A. Manifestation according to the science of Quantum Entanglement

Readers are strongly encouraged to watch this 25 minute video because it presents an excellent summary of quantum entanglement and how this is deeply connected with consciousness.

Our consciousness is not just observing reality. It is actively participating in creating it. Every thought we have and emotion we feel sends ripples through the quantum field that connects everything in existence.
We are each surrounded by a quantum field of infinite possibilities that are influenced by our thoughts and emotions. This understanding of quantum entanglement and its relationship to consciousness can transform our lives.
When we focus on a particular outcome, we are interacting with the quantum field that determines how events unfold in our lives. Aligning our thoughts, feelings and intentions creates coherence in the quantum field. [IB note: The R4B Method creates this alignment.]
Meditation and one-pointed concentration practices create more coherent patterns in the quantum field. This coherence enables more effective manifestation of intention.
The video describes the direct experience of Dr. Sarah Chen, a scientific researcher of quantum science.
- Her experience in the laboratory and her personal life is similar to that of the dharma wanderer’s direct experience over multiple decades.
- Focused intention and aligned thought patterns led to remarkable manifestation of desired outcomes, similar to that of multiple researchers from around the world.
- The power of focused consciousness is greater than anyone has imagined. [IB note: The R4B Method develops intense one-pointed concentration of consciousness.]
- Negative thought patterns create just as powerful an effect as positive ones. [IB note: Using the breath to let go and dissolve negative thought patterns frees the practitioner’s consciousness to more readily discern primordial wisdom arising from the quantum field for guidance.]
- The key to maintaining beneficial quantum coherence is developing thought patterns and emotions that align with our best and highest positive intention.
The video’s recommendations for enhancing quantum entanglement are aligned with the practices described at the R4B Method website.

B. Obstacles to the dissolution of dissatisfaction and suffering: Judgment, Anger and Other Negative Emotions

Meditation practitioners within the original Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism have been studying the nature of mind for more than a thousand years. Their observations have been distilled into straightforward mindfulness and concentration techniques. These practices cultivate awareness of the contents of consciousness, including thoughts, feelings, sensations and more.

Section A above presents a scientific perspective on how consciousness can be entangled with the quantum field of infinite possibilities. This entanglement can enable a surprising manifestation of intention, regardless of its beneficial or harmful effects.

To keep it simple and make the point unmistakably clear:

quantum entanglement does not differentiate between the good and the bad; the helpful and the harmful; the kind and the unkind; the gentle and the destructive. This explains how human ego, attachment, power lust, revenge, anger and hate have contributed to massive suffering over thousands of years.

Tibetan Buddhism clearly recognizes the harms created by the human ego. The tradition communicates this in many ways. One of them is through the myth of a powerful negative being known as Mara, who has three daughters known as craving, discontent and passion/lust.

Readers are strong encouraged to watch this 28 minute video because presents a clear view of Mara from a Buddhist point of view by clarifying the harmful effects of Mara’s influence. Karmic suffering arises from Mara’s presence in our consciousness by seducing our attention away from calm peaceful awareness and the four immeasurables. This Mara narrative enables clarity of perspective on the most common negative karmic influences on our life journeys.

Buddha identified craving as the root cause of all suffering. It is clinging to desires that is the problem. Practitioner freedom [to choose] lies in the space between wanting something and deciding to pursue it. Craving is about wanting what we don’t have; boredom is about not wanting what we do have; and passion is about getting lost in what we are experiencing.

The goal is not the absence of emotion; the goal is freedom from emotions. The liberating process unfolds simply: 1 noticing the emotion; 2 breathing through it and letting it go; and then 3 returning to calm and alert awareness. This enables choice, thereby enabling wisdom to enter the equation for action, or non-action, whichever might be the wiser choice, in the present moment and for the longer term.

The dharma wanderer’s related psycho-spiritual view clarifies additional obstacles to enlightened living, including:

binary thinking – the judgmental mind’s right/wrong filter that tends to block real time consideration of input that is new or contrary to firmly held conditioned beliefs.
anger and other negative emotions – block the body/mind’s awareness of helpful alternatives, while sending negative energetic vibes out of the body. These energetic emotions bounce back from the universal karmic mirror [aka quantum field of infinite possibilities] and contribute to discontent, dissatisfaction and suffering.
The compelling aspect of these points of view is that they are testable through direct experience. They lead to experiential learning for beings who are paying attention to the results they achieve through wise management of their thoughts, feelings and behavior. A key technique for mastery is simply paying attention, and letting negative thoughts and feelings go when they arise in awareness. Breath work is central to this process.
The causal connection between negative emotions and their karmic consequences may not be readily apparent. There is seldom a 1:1 correspondence so readily observed. Meditators often reflect about the causes and conditions contributing to their life dissatisfactions. Such reflections enable insights about the influence of negative emotions and problematic interpersonal interactions. Correcting these causes and conditions enables the dissolution of suffering. As a result, practitioners will often recognize that a previous life dissatisfaction has simply disappeared.

Conclusion

The latest quantum science is aligned with insightful observations of the Buddha two and a half millenia ago. The consciousness of sentient beings is entangled with the surrounding energetic quantum field of infinite possibilities. This yields two hypotheses testable through direct experience:

Judgmental self righteousness and negative emotions bring about persistent suffering and dissatisfaction.
The antidote is alignment of consciousness with the four immeasurables: kindness, compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity: This yields dissolution of dissatisfaction and suffering.

Merging the two independently generated videos with these two testable hypotheses yields a fundamental principle for wise action:

Cultivation of mindful awareness, clarity of intent and the four immeasurables [kindness, compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity] enables guidance for wise action to arise from the quantum field of infinite possibilities.

May all who read and reflect on this post apply this principle for the benefit of all beings and the world.

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