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Also, in keeping with the Buddhist Unlocking Transcendence philosophy, he loved the concept of Nothingness. Here are some of his statements on it: "Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest...its essence dwells as regards time between the past and the future, and possesses nothing of the present. This nothingness has the part equal to the whole and the whole to the part, the divisible to the indivisible, and it comes to the same amount whether we divide it or multiply it or add to it or subtract from it..."
Like Buddha, Leonardo stressed the importance of direct experience rather than relying on priests or theology. In fact, the principle of direct experience (Dimostrazione) was listed as the second of the Seven Da Vincian Principles, as listed by da Vinci scholar Michael J. Gelb in his book How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo said, "Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason."
Other principles listed by Gelb that have Buddhist overtones include a recognition of and appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things (which has extended into modern day physics, as demonstrated by David Bohm and the Holographic Universe). For instance, Leonardo wrote, "Everybody placed in the luminous air spreads out in circles and fills the surrounding space with infinite likenesses of itself and appears all in all and all in every part." That sounds like something you would expect to read in The Tao of Physics. He also said, "This is the real miracle, that all shapes, all colors, all images of every part of the universe are concentrated in a single point." That is the oneness that David Bohm was pointing to with his viewpoint of the Holographic Universe, which was also very Buddhist in its concept of oneness and illusion.
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