Quantum Physics and Buddhism Leading You to Your Salvation/Nirvana
What is karma positive and what is karma negative?
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Question:
What is positive karma leading to Salvation/Nirvana?
What is negative karma leading to Hell, Purgatory, Samsara?
Answer:
First I will describe Buddhist/Hindu concepts, then Quantum Physics concepts, and then link them together to help you understand karma, and our interconnected reality, and your Salvation/Nirvana.
Buddhism
Buddhism is a sequel to Hinduism. The Vedic Period of India started around 1,500 BC. Buddhism began around 455 BC. Hindus developed the Law of Karma and Samsara, a cycle of birth and death. If you learn your lessons, you evolve (karma positive), if you do not, then you devolve (karma negative). The goal is Nirvana, reaching a state of Unconditional Love for all Beings. The Buddha helped people understand how to reach this state.
Story of the Buddha:
The Buddha’s story is a fascinating one. He was raised by an aristocratic family. He grew up around royalty. Then one day, he decided to leave this life and live the life of a monk. He went outside the palace walls. He discovered sickness, old age, and death at the age of 29. He then lived in the forest, and meditated through his fears in the jungle. He tried to release his fears and desires for sex, food, and comfort. He realized physical and material possessions were not the answer. He became an ascetic, to the point of becoming skin and bones. He realized this was not the answer either. He faced ridicule from ascetics. Yet, he went his own way, following his intuition. Then he received revelations of the Four Noble Truths and the Eight Fold Path that most Buddhists follow today. He also discovered Paticca Samuppada and The Five Aggregates, which relate to Quantum Physics. Here they are all summarized for your understanding.
Four Noble Truths:
Life is suffering
The cause of suffering is that people want things and do wrong actions because of ignorance, which leads to suffering (greed, lust, craving, attachments, jealously, hatred, ignorance, etc.)
People can end suffering by letting go of their attachments and desires
People can end suffering by following the Noble Eightfold Path
Noble Eightfold Path:
Right View, understanding of the Four Noble Truths
Right Intention, heart-based / holy / innocent / pure consciousness
Right Speech, the frequency/vibration, or the waves you give out to other beings when you interact with them
Right Action, innocence and purity rather than sinfulness
Right Livelihood, living an honorable life
Right Effort, a desire for purity, innocence, holiness
Right Mindfulness, attention focused on your heart’s intention, body’s wellbeing; not getting lost in gossip, delusions, etc.
Right Concentration: Developing True Wisdom by concentrating on a single meditating object, be that your heart’s purpose, your calling from God, etc.
Paticca Samuppada:
All things are dependent on other things. All rise or fall from a relationship with another particle.
The Five Aggregates
Form: The sense organs and how they experience matter
Feeling: How a person feels about something; pleasant, unpleasant, and indifferent
Perception: How a person conceptualizes and categorizes their experiences; “through experience where you had a negative, or positive, feeling, your perception is completely different from someone else.”
Mental formations: A person’s thoughts, emotions, attitudes, intentions, and habits; there are 51 different mental formations
Consciousness: A person’s general awareness of the world around them; i.e. being human
Sources: Google AI, AlanPeto.com, and PlumVillage.org
What we call a ‘being’, or an ‘individual’, or ‘I’, is only a convenient name or a label given to the combination of these five groups. They are all impermanent, all constantly changing. What is is impermanent is dukkha’ (Yad aniccam tam dukkham). This is the true meaning of the Buddha’s words: ‘In brief the Five Aggregates of attachment are dukkha’. They are not the same for two consecutive moments. Here A is not equal to A. They are in flux of momentary arising and disappearing.” — Walpola Rahula, from the book What the Buddha Taught”
In a nutshell, The Five Aggregates are what makes up a human being. It is what makes you you… “you”. However, the Five Aggregates teaches us that “you” are a temporary grouping (aggregate) of different constantly changing things (form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness) that make up your physical and mental existence.” — Alan Peto
Quantum Physics
Quanta 3: Reality is Relational (by Carlo Rovelli)
“The third discovery about the world articulated by quantum mechanics is the most profound and difficult — and one that was not anticipated by the atomism of antiquity.
The theory does not describe things as they “are”: it describes how things “occur,” and how they “interact with each other.” It doesn’t describe where there is a particle but how the particle shows itself to others. The world of existent things is reduced to a realm of possible interactions. Reality is reduced to interaction. Reality is reduced to relation.
The world of quantum mechanics is not a world of objects: it is a world of events.
Quantum mechanics does not describe objects: it describes processes and events that are junction points between processes.”
— Carlo Rovelli, an Italian Theoretical Physicist, from his book Reality is Not What it Seems
My Interpretation of Buddhism and Quantum Physics Combined for your Salvation/Nirvana
This last line by Carlo Rovelli is an important one. It means that at the exact point of relation between two particles is the key.
This relates to Buddhism. We are not just “me” or “I”, we are actually a family. We are interrelated. Our frequency, vibration, and intention with another person, animal, tree, plant, bird, or tiny little particle, matters. It creates a wave pattern.
It can be a positive wave pattern of love, creating positive karma for the universe we are all part of, and you can reach Salvation and Nirvana if you are constantly attentive to your surroundings and filled with Compassion and Love for all Beings.
Or, it can be the opposite, and you will face the cycle of samsara of life and death until your lessons are learned.
So this is about decision points. This is about relationality. This is about your soul’s choice in how you interact with your surroundings. It is your intentionality. Your vibration and frequencies create waves that are felt and known by the universe, the other particle(s), and God.
That is why when you die, you go through a process of reviewing your life, and then you are given a break to see how you can make better choices, and decide what life form you will evolve into in order to create more positive karmic decisions and hopefully reach Salvation/Nirvana.
Written by Ashley Heacock, 2025
