The Buddha Atom

I spent some time last night and this morning listening to M.P. Hall's history of the ancient Indian/Buddhist/Hindu and Chinese concepts of the atom. I was very intrigued by the Buddhist concepts of the atom, who thought that it's not material but spiritual -- alive and basically consists of thoughts.

And, according to Buddhism, love has an atomic existence, as does hate and every other thought or emotion-form -- anything and everything that exists in abstraction exists at an atomic level.

And, if you feel hate, you attract hate atoms into your energy field. Karma exists at an atomic level, so you can attract karma or starve karma out of your energy field by no longer attracting it.

Hall said that there is exists a unique, peculiar atom called the "Buddha atom", and I'm not sure -- I don't remember -- if he said that this atom is attracted to the person or born within the person, but the Buddha atom is attracted to or born within the individual when that individual genuinely decides that his or her life shall be useful to another, when that individual decides that he or she shall no longer seek simply the good of him- or herself but the good of all.