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"Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds" (One of my Favorite Documentaries)
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".. I tell you that there is no making an end of suffering & stress without reaching the end of the cosmos. Yet it is just within this fathom-long body, with its perception & intellect, that I declare that there is the cosmos, the origination of the cosmos, the cessation of the cosmos, and the path of practice leading to the cessation of the cosmos."
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.045.than.html
since i am a Hindu, so as far as Hinduism is concerned, what i have read is that as per Hinduism, initially there was just shunyata and Shiva. the Shiva, which is depicted as a God with snake around his neck and sitting in meditation posture, is not the actual Shiva. Actual Shiva is the Universal Consciousness. Then Shiva tried to manifest itself - don't know why - but scriptures say that Shiva manifested itself as AUM sound and this sound is permeated in the entire universe. Interestingly, quantum physics string M theory states that the lowest indivisible thing in an atom is string - which is just a vibration - so it seems that all the universe is in a way permeated with this vibration. Moreover, the different forms like solid, liquid, gas are just different frequencies in which the atoms are vibrating - so in a way this vibration has the potential to create matter. As per Hinduism, the AUM sound manifested as matter or Prakriti or Shakti. The Universal Consciousness or Shiva distributed into individual Consciousness - giving life to matter. Our human body which is composed of the five elements is a manifestation of that matter or Prakriti or Shakti and the consciousness which is inside us is Shiva - the meeting or union of Shakti with Shiva is Self-Realization, which as per Bhagwad Geeta is the most important goal of human birth. This meeting of Shakti with Shiva occurs at the seventh chakra of Kundalini Awakening.
my thinking says that what is the actual reality can only be found by going inside us.