his holiness the gyalwang drukpa head of the drukpa lineage of vajrayana buddhism writes on the intersection of science philosophy and spirituality and its relevance to education as human beings we have a basic inner desire to understand the nature of our universe whether we are pursuing it through scientific experiments or spiritual contemplation that basic sense of wonder is what fuels our search within us and outside of us because of that there is often a beautiful echo of science in spirituality and spirituality in science after speaking at cern recently i learnt that many modern physicists are devoted to finding a theory of everything a single comprehensive set of mathematics that applies to all matter and particles a universal truth you could say that could explain the motion of planets and the behaviour of subatomic particles all at once in practice scientific formulas are com pletely different for both of those scenarios because when we get very big or very small in scale physical behaviours begin to change there are actually many different sets of mathematics describing the diverse forces of our universe this is something that resonates with me because on a practical level this also describes how many of us feel in our every day lives we live work and play in a world that relies heavily on a diversity of thought and activity for me the drukpa buddhist lineage has always celebrated the creative ways in which teachers convey their knowledge and the revolutionary ways ordinary people express their aspiration to help others my lineage flourished in the last thousand years along the ancient silk route this is especially relevant in educationone of our live to love humanitarian projects is the druk padma karpo school in ladakh also known as ranchos school from the film 3 idiots this school was built with a completely environmentallysustainable design and we have microstrategised to deliver the most appropriate educational resources to this region of ladakh this sensitivity to the locale much like the microcosmic rules of where trade and commerce brought people of diverse faiths and traditions together so you could say we have been celebrating the universal values of love and compassion across all faiths and living harmoniously with one another in that joy of diversity physics if you will is part of the success of this project as a result the school is now quite successful in providing a modern education so that the students may take leadership in the larger world dialogue so that is one example of how small physics and large physics often work together in harmony even if they are different in the end im not sure there is much difference between this theory of everything and the theories of many perhaps as in science we are coming to a point where our celebration of diverse systems and ideas is becoming intrinsic to our understanding of the single nature of our universe the writer is also the founder of live to love