The majority of people, by just hearing about Buddhism and science, will conceive that these two are incompatible. On the contrary, when one has full insight of the Tao Dharma, there is an immediate realization that science is indeed a part of Buddhism. How can this be so? Buddhism is the attainment of perfect enlightenment involving both humans and the Universe. In fact, scientists are only now realizing some truths through research and experimentation, while Buddhism revealed and taught them over 2520 years ago.

The practice of Buddhism involves the Self-Nature, Awareness of Nature.[2] Therefore, Buddhism fully understands the main nature of all unconscious, erroneous species in the Universe. Buddhism gives answers to why each species metamorphosed, born, and changed in each lifetime. Burdened with that main nature and individuality, each species is metamorphosed, born, and gives rise to many different classes. Each class must behave according to its own class, therefore there are: Humans, Fairies, Deities, as well as all the worlds with all kinds of creatures and plants.

Buddhism clearly defines the original nature of all species. Prior to being unconsciously erroneous, all species were equally endowed with a uniform original nature that completely embraced every characteristic. Because of their reflective thoughts, desires, and expectations, they adopt different characteristics and become dissimilar. It is this dissimilarity that gives rise to the division of high, low, large, and small. As a result, some places become places of gain, loss, good, or bad, and thus there are the Six Taos—Human creatures, Fairy-Dragon creatures, Divine creatures, Animals, Hungry Ghosts, and Hell. Once the distinctive formation begins, there are associated memories, classes, and levels of consciousness. This has led to the caste distinction that is prevalent today: Each person is of their own nature, and each species is different from one another—they are metamorphosed and born in such a way.

If science can find and become aware of the reasoning above, then it will know that every naturally born species consists of main substances that contain many subordinary substances. For example: when water is the main substance, wind, fire, salt, and sugar have already existed in water; as for soil, if it is the main substance, it still has water, wind, and fire without missing all other substances as its subordinary substances. Buddhism previously said that before humanity or other species were formed, there was still the original characteristic, which comprehensively and equally embraced every nature; it is called the essential nature of the original truth. This essential nature of the original truth is of value beyond measure. If humans realize this, they can then use their own original nature, which is already endowed in human beings, to observe the Universe and to be its master. On the contrary, humanity as a whole behaves in the opposite manner. Rather than comprehensively utilizing one’s infinite natures, people tend to establish only one nature and then let this nature take control of them. This causes self-metamorphosis and birth into each species. This is why Buddhism said previously that each main substance contains so many subordinate substances. Science has recognized this, but can science realize the above reasoning?

Science looks at the Universe through the knowledge that the Universe is related to many scientific discoveries. Science also looks at human beings and admits that human nature is very scientific. On account of that, science aims at a glorious objective in the future. Many scientists strongly believe that a human can become a supreme being through knowing how to utilize themselve properly. Scientists engage themselves in studies and make use of their intelligence for research along with experimentation to reach that end; however, they can only attain a metaphysical level.

As far as human beings are concerned, why is humanity supreme? By the above explanation, humans are endowed completely with the original essential substance. This essential substance is quintessential, clairvoyant, and immortal; it can comprehensively manage all substances which have already existed in it. For that reason, when a person is noble, elegant, and clear-minded, he or she turns towards a fine substance. From fine substance, one is compatible with the relative-emptiness, and thus his or her thoughts are fine and liberated. Owing to that fine substance, when one is born among ordinary people or immersed in depraved and accumulated karma, one utilizes his or her given fine substance to cultivate. As a result, he or she can be metamorphosed and born to the Fairy or Deity’s world or to another higher or lower world, depending on his or her level of cultivating in the absorption of the fine substance.

Science used modern technologies to collect the primary element of fire, which is also a fine substance to make electrical energy. Science examines and formulates the primary elements of each substance, which are called the original substances. Each primary element of the specific substance has its subordinate elements, which are also called the original substances.