In Conversation with B. Alan Wallace - Looking Within and Exploring The Potentials of Consciousness
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ม.ค. 2022
- In this episode of The Samadhi Podcast, David is joined for a fascinating conversation with his teacher, B. Alan Wallace. One of the world’s leading scholars, writers, and teachers of Tibetan Buddhism and its relation to science, Lama Alan was ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and devoted fourteen years to training as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. He has written and translated more than 40 books and has been a leading voice in the dialogues and research between Buddhists and scientists. He is the founder and director of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies and the Centers for Contemplative Research.
In this conversation, Lama Alan very kindly offers us his thoughts on the nature and potentials of consciousness, the importance of shamatha and contemplative inquiry, and his vision for the Centers for Contemplative Research.
This fascinating conversation we're sure will be of benefit to many. 🙏🏻❤️
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0:00 opening and personal journey of Alan
12:30 inspect way of knowing
28:00 shamata
35:50 shift priority to genuine well being*
48:00 donot reduce meditation into a technique
Many thanks. Alan Wallace is truly inspirational. Am deeply moved by his work and his efforts.
Namo buddhay
Namo dhammay
Namo saghay
What a wonderful interview. Always a pleasure to see Lama Wallace. He is so amazing. You now have a new subscriber. Cheers.
thank you for posting, you are great and beautiful. Have a wonderful day.
Thanks for sharing 🙌🌺
Very good!! If we change our internal world, the external world changes. Thank you so much for the video!!!
Very true Maria, change must come from within. Thank you for watching 🙏
Shattering our concept of the good life once again 🙏Thank you Lama Alan and may all your aspirations be actualized 🙏
Direct and wonderful as always 😃We join you in that wish 🙏
Thank you! 🙏
Thank you for watching! 🙏
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks for watching! 🙏
45 min, consciousness and mass can be entangled, thought also is correlated to mass manifestation. for the precursors of this research see dr. dean radin, and also the harvard research involving organic intent and also led light selection based off a black box computer RNG.
degrees of complexity may be necessary for individuated consciousnesses
This is the part of my day I always enjoy. Do what the pros do = Promo'SM!!!
We've always said brain, actually, for the several centuries that we've known it is associated with cognition. We started using brain more because our knowledge of the brain has skyrocketed in the last 20 years. It's still very limited, but it's immensely more advanced than it was. I don't think it's any more complicated than that.
Alan seems to have an axe to grind with physical science, which is very unfortunate, because neuroscience has huge potential to radically accelerate the spiritual path and democratize enlightenment, making it available to everyone. As long as enlightenment remains the province of a fraction of society that can dedicate itself to full-time practice, we're doomed as a civilization.
We've never always used brain and mind interchangeably.
And he loves the physical sciences. I guess it's true that if your mind is warped, anything entering it will get twisted en route.
And if you call questioning the fact that psychology doesn't even acknowledge mental perception an axe to grind, then I don't know what to tell you.
Maybe listen instead of looking for ways to argue 🤷♂️
And why then if neuroscience is of such benefit, has depression increased by 1000 percent since their inception 60 years ago while at the same time, the number of mental health care professionals has also increased by 1000 %?
Maybe wake up (experience the waking state lucidly) and cut all this back and forth at the root?
Realize that without conceptual designations, there are no objects, that is there is nothing that has something else (other than your labels) as a property.
Now there's a revolution of the mind sciences that you should be concerning yourself with.
@@ezeeproproperties8352 Alan's stats are partly wrong. First, depression is actually worse in the poorest countries. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rates of depression in the world. Second, we are correctly diagnosing depression at a much higher rate today, whereas back in the day people just grinned and bore it and were miserable, committed suicide - which was also much higher in the early 20th Century - or drank. He is right that depression has increased - but only since the financial crisis and the rise of social media in 2008.
In April, I'm going to get focused ultrasound at Sunnybrook Hospital in Canada on a deep structure in my brain to help shut off my OCD and in general quiet my brain. 20 years of meditation has had no effect on the OCD. Should I do this procedure, according to you?
Focused ultrasound on the basal ganglia in a study at the U of Arizona has also shown tremendous results. Several 50-year meditators have had it done and reported the deepest states of mental quiet they have ever experienced. It works wonders for novice meditators too. In other research centres, they're also targetinng the amygdala for anxiety.
In another study, researchers used deep brain stimulation to 'wind down' the activity in another part of the brain associated with the mental commentary on pain, in terminally ill cancer patients. The procedure was so effective that the people who had it done found that they didn't need morphine anymore until the very last weeks of their lives.
Here is a quote from the Dalai Lama when he addressed a neuroscience conference in 2005: _"If it was possible to become free of negative emotions by a riskless implementation of an electrode - without impairing intelligence and the critical mind - I would be the first patient."_
Everything is impermanent, even the skillful means of Buddhism. And even Buddhism.
@@ezeeproproperties8352 Depression has not increased by 1000% (where did you get that figure - can I have sources?) in 60 years. Do you really think people were less depressed when they couldn't feed their kids and worked themselves to the bone 12 hours a day? Or fought in WW2? Or whatever?
The _diagnosis_ of depression has increased by a great deal, because there are more professionals around to deal with it. PTSD wasn't even a term until 1975. And so on.
Neuroscience hasn't been of much benefit to us yet because it is very complex, and the tools that can effectively make use of it are just starting to become practical - transcranial magnetic stimulation, focused ultrasound etc. It's hard. The subject is very complex.
I can tell you this much - I have suffered horribly from OCD for 20 years, and nothing, absolutely nothing I tried could do anything about it. Not meditation, not healers, not psychedelics, not nothing. It was a HUGE obstacle to my dharma practice. It led to doctor-prescribed addiction, which caused vastly _more_ problems. I had to go into detox for the addiction.
Then I got focused ultrasound to destroy a tiny nerve cluster deep in my brain associated with OCD. I felt very tired for a month afterwards. But my OCD symptoms declined drastically as my whole brain rewired around the change over the course of a year. More than 10,000 hours of meditation was able to do. My quality of life has vastly improved. Neuroscience enabled this to happen.
So what do you have to say about that? If neuroscience can do this much already, what will it be able to do eventually? This is the faintest glimmer of what's coming.
I expect that you won't answer this question, because it's too much of a challenge to what you wrote, but grow a backbone and give me an answer, buddy.
What of the water brain from cambridge, He was working on his PhD but he has almost no grey matter.