Max Planck--People in Osho's Talks

Planck, Max
1858-1947 89 years

Just at the beginning of this century, in the year 1900, a
great scientist, Max Planck, came to make one of the
greatest discoveries ever. He came to feel and he came
to discover that existence seems to be discontinuous,
that it is not a continuity. It is not as if you pour oil from
one pot into another. Then the oil has a continuity; it
falls in a continuous stream. Max Planck said, "Existence
is such: as if you are pouring peas from one carton into
another – discontinuous – each pea falling separately."
He said, "The whole life is discontinuous.

These discontinuous elements he calls 'quanta'. That is
his Theory of Quantum. 'Quanta' means: each thing is
separate from each other thing, and discontinuous, and
between two things there is a space.

Now, that space is holding everything because two
things are not connected, two atoms are not connected
between themselves. The space, the emptiness is
holding both. They are not connected directly, they are
connected through space. Still, nobody has tried some
parallel theory about mind, but exactly the same is the
case...

--Osho
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol. 10, ch. 3