Revolutionary new inventions and innovations come from inspirations. No amount of knowledge can create new inventions and innovations. Momentary inspirations can trigger innovations. Inspirations do not come from your mind, but from what the deep within the heart and the body already knows. Inspirations come directly from the body, not from the mind. The body knows everything. The body is a part of the universe, a fragment of the universe and microcosm. Naturally, it should know the laws of physics, the laws of the universe, everything. Our dualistic thinking cannot understand a monistic universe, which has a different dimension to our thinking.

Even in the process from classical to modern physics, every concept has been overturned. The inspirations of geniuses led to new discoveries. And the new discoveries are remarkably consistent with the long-established Indian and Eastern philosophies. In the East, the emphasis was not only on the mind, on thinking, but also on a deeper understanding through the body. Perhaps it is not surprising that the answers that came out through the body were the same as the inspirations of genius physicists.

It is a well-known story for Japanese that Dr Hideki Yukawa, Japan’s first Nobel Prize winner in physics, also devoted his later years to ‘Laozhuang philosophy’. It was the ‘Laozhuang philosophy’ that got me hooked on this kind of philosophy. Physics and mathematics are very close to philosophy and thought as they go deeper and deeper.

For example, it is no exaggeration to say that the quantum computer that mankind is now trying to develop is following Buddha or Eastern philosophy and thought. The classical computers we use today operate according to the binary system of 1 or 0, or presence or absence. This is also a genius invention, but quantum computers are even further beyond that, working on a theory that is incomprehensible to the ordinal mind: 1 is 0 and 0 is also 1.