Cascading Worlds: Buddhism, Love, and Quantum Mechanics — The Sum of Karma Is Zero

This longform audio monologue explores reality as a cascade of branching worlds—perfection at the origin, oblivion at the horizon, and every flawed, luminous in‑between. Through the lenses of Buddhism and theoretical physics, it reflects on entanglement, dependent origination, symmetry breaking, and the path of least action, proposing a simple but demanding idea: if Love is the hidden symmetry, then compassion is its conservation law. Subatomic particles sing in chorus; people do, too—each of us a marionette learning the grammar of our strings, discovering where intention can bring phase into alignment rather than noise.

We travel from Hilbert space and vacuum states to the Bodhi tree and Indra’s net, asking how attention collapses possibility into responsibility. Karma is treated as perfect accounting across infinite branches—an amplitude ledger whose grand total sums to zero, not as negation but as clarity. In that clarity the universe appears as a tranquil lake. When you find the frequency of quiet and dare to look, the ripples settle into soft equations, and what remains is the oldest secret stated plainly: beneath your own Bodhi tree, you are both the question and the answer.