How hard is it to get the peanuts back from the peanut butter?

 

This also has subtitle:


Is that " !! CRAZY !!"  old man, possibly wise?


And so, to start with this has to do will loose ends related to


1) fighting

2) democracy

3) freedom ..


The first question of course is :

why extract peanuts from creamy peanut butter?

- when, so much evolution and technology went into

creating the peanut butter in the first place?


and so loose ends:


I created from the phrase, fighting for democracy is freedom,

which I am going to try to tie up with quantum mechanics and Zen,

which may fail miserably.  But first, the word democracy 

, as far as I know, comes from the times of ancient Greece,

and has something to do with people coming from the rural

areas to the cities.


Anyway, starting with Zen, this is mostly about Mu, or

no, or yes, or nothing, which comes from Joshu, an

early Zen patriarch (about 500 a.d. in China).  It has 

become over time to Zen, a Zen key.  

It has to do with Buddha nature being

in everything and a question from a student on that

subject and the reply being yes, or no or " nothing ",

I guess depending on the student , so the issue with

the Mu, is the yes/no. This has been the cause of a great

deal of puzzlement for many Zen students over time

and has led some to " enlightenment " , sometimes

" freedom ".


Which brings us to something we call quantum mechanics,

and the ideas of superposition and entanglement.  At one

time quantum mechanics was just known as Atomic Science,

and made a particular class of people, called Chemists

in particular, pretty happy and sometimes very happy indeed.


But as things moved along, entanglement or EPR or Bell's

theorem was encountered. as well as superposition.

  

This was the cause for considerable head scratching, which

can be a good thing.  Superposition being how elements of

physical reality can be in contradictory states, and

entanglement being how these elements can be connected

in very, very contra intuitive ways.  In the end, the atomic

science became  mostly to be known as quantum mechanics,

atoms becoming sometimes,  of secondary concern.


And so there we have it.  Maybe the loose ends are just

really entangled or super-imposed or maybe it is another

example of Joshu's Mu, or maybe not.



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