The eight patterns of vibration are fundamental expressions of energy and matter, known in the Buddha's words as solidity (patavi), liquidity (apo), heat (thejo), air (wayo), color (warna), smell (ganda), taste (rasa), and essence or speed (oja).
These eightfold vibrations are the smallest building blocks of all matter and energy, forming the very fabric of existence according to the Buddha's profound teachings.
The world we perceive through our sensory organs emerges from the combination of these eight patterns, which manifest as the energies we see, hear, smell, taste, and feel.
A flower on a tree consists of countless billions of these subtle vibrations, arising and ceasing in rapid succession.
Our sensory organs, including the eye, are also composed of the same eightfold patterns—showing that both observer and observed arise from identical vibrations.
When the vibration of the flower aligns with the vibration of the eye, the eye begins to vibrate—activating the eye faculty at that precise moment.
The eye is only capable of detecting vibrations within a limited range of frequencies, which is what we call visible light.
In the very instant that the eye perceives the flower, billions of vibrations ignite and merge to create a single wave—the eye consciousness—which the Buddha referred to as "Form".
This wave of eye consciousness combines with a parallel telepathized wave carrying past memories and constructed mental impressions, referred to as "Name" (consisting of perception, sensation, and mental formations).
The merging of Form and Name produces the mind consciousness—an intricate, instantaneous process arising in dependence on both internal and external conditions.
Fusion of From vibration and Name vibration creates a new vibration - Consciousness
This entire process collapses into a single vibration in the mind—what the Buddha identified as the Five Aggregates (form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness).
Each vibration generates a subtle power, and the rapid merging of countless waves gives rise to an immense force that creates the illusion of continuity and solidity.
This power is what creates the illusion of duality—the sense that there is an external world "out there" and a separate self "in here" observing it.
The illusion of duality conceals the truth that everything perceived is nothing more than a single vibration arising and ceasing in this very moment.
Not knowing this truth, the mind fabricates the illusion of an observer separate from the observed—giving rise to attachment, suffering, and the endless cycle of Saṃsāra.
When one sees through this illusion, the false sense of self collapses—revealing that there is no observer, no observed, and no separation—only the arising and ceasing of vibrations in timeless immediacy.
Understanding this reality is the path to the complete cessation of suffering—liberation from Saṃsāra—realized not in the distant future, but in this very moment through direct knowledge of how the mind constructs the illusion.
This revelation, reopened in this era through the Abhijñā knowledge of Buddhotpādo Aryan Wahanse, offers a practical, scientific understanding of the mind's vibration—unveiling the timeless truth that the Buddha once illuminated.
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