[JuntMonkey]

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I only just started with the first one, but I have some ideas/thoughts.

For thousands of years, enlightened masters have been teaching, in one way or another, that all is one. Everything is emptiness. Everything is conciousness. Or even, everything is God. The point is: all is one. They say that differences are only made in the mind. Once this is fully realized, all personal suffering supposedly ends.

But, doesn't this come very close to what science is 'discovering' now? That the whole universe is made up out of the same essence?

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You are correct. Many colleges have science courses such as "Zen and Physics", and there are books about it.