28/11 “Matter is emptiness. Emptiness is matter. Matter is not other than emptiness, nor is emptiness other than Matter.” This is from Khenpo Migmar Tsering’s translation of the Heart Sutra, switching the word ‘form’ for matter. It seemed immediately more intuitive than ‘form’ as the Abhidharma and the Avatamsaka Sutra both speak of matter as particles and atoms. In the sutra’s seventh collection of books, The Universal Hall of Lights, “Samantabhadra describes ten aspects of Buddahood in detail and affirms that Buddhahood is present in every particle in the physical universe, as well as in the body and mind of every living being.” Even in karmically negative situations Buddhahood, the Buddha’s mind, is there, but best imagined as ‘antimatter.’ Metaphorically, the real enemy and plague to heavily negative karma is antimatter which is matter composed of negative particles: “These have the same mass as particles of ordinary matter but have opposite charge and properties, such...