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“Our task, in life and death, is to realize we always have a choice. We can fall asleep into unawareness and stay stuck in the repeating cycle of samsara, or we can wake up.”
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We directly experience 3 spatial and 1 temporal dimensions (3+1). But here’s an interesting observation made by Kaluza and Klein almost a century ago: If you write the equations of general relativity in (4+1) dimensions, but imagine one spatial dimension is “curled up” (closed and periodic), it looks like relativity in (3+1) dimensions plus electromagnetism plus an extra scalar field (“dilaton”). So, in this theory, the 5th dimension is electromagnetism!
Kaluza-Klein theory is not believed to be correct, but it was a conceptual predecessor of the curled-up spatial dimensions assumed in string theory
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When we awaken to our togetherness with others, our experiences give rise to gratitude. And gratitude, in the Shin tradition, is expressed through nembutsu. Shin theory usually involves emotional expression rather than dry assent to beliefs and doctrines. We are at our best when we are moved by the dharma, and the emotional feeling of inner togetherness with others can help us to expand the circle to encompass all
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