Do you understand any of the FOLLOWING?: 🐟 02. A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF “LIFE”: Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible - that is, any gross or subtle OBJECT within the material universe which can ever be perceived with the cognitive faculties, plus the SUBJECT (the observer of all phenomena) - is to what most persons generally refer when they use the term “God”, since they usually conceive of the Primeval Creator as being the Perfect Person, and “God” (capitalized) is a personal epithet of the Unconditioned Absolute. However, this anthropomorphized conception of The Monad is a fictional character of divers mythologies. According to most every enlightened sage in the history of this planet, Ultimate Reality is, far more logically, Absolutely NOTHING, or conversely, Absolutely EVERYTHING - otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “Brahman”, “Pure Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “The Ground of All Being”, “Uncaused Nature”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera - yet, as alluded to above, inaccurately referred to as a personal deity by the masses (e.g. “God”, “Allah”, “Yahweh”, “Bhagavan”, etc.). In other words, rather than the Supreme Truth being a separate, Blissful, Supra-Conscious Being (The Godhead Himself or The Goddess), Ultimate Reality is Eternal-Existence Limitless-Awareness Unconditional-Peace ITSELF. That which can be perceived, can not be perceiving! Because the Unmanifested Absolute is infinite creative potentiality, “it” actualizes as EVERYTHING, in the form of ephemeral, cyclical universes. In the case of our particular universe, we reside in a cosmos consisting of space-time, matter and energy, without, of course, neglecting the most fundamental dimension of existence (i.e. conscious awareness - although, “it” is, being the subject, by literal definition, non-existent). Just as a knife cannot cut itself, nor the mind comprehend itself, nor the eyes see themselves, The Absolute cannot know Itself (or at least objectively EXPERIENCE Itself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Itself for the purpose of experiencing Itself, particularly through the lives of self-aware beings, such as we sophisticated humans. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness, in the same way that a dream is a person's sleeping narrative set within the life-story of an “awakened” individual. APPARENTLY, this phenomenal universe was created with the primal event (the so-called “Big Bang”), which started, supposedly, as a minute, slightly uneven ball of light, which in turn, was instigated, ultimately, by Extra-Temporal Supra-Consciousness. From that first deed, every motion or action that has ever occurred has been a direct (though, almost exclusively, an indirect) result of it. Just as all the extant energy in the universe was once contained within the inchoate singularity, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the beginning of the universe, and is in no way an epiphenomenon of a neural network. Discrete consciousness, on the other hand, is entirely dependent on the neurological faculty of individual animals (the more highly-evolved the species, the greater its cognitive abilities). “Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (a Sanskrit maxim from the “Chandogya Upanishad”, meaning “all this is indeed Brahman” or “everything is the Universal Self alone”). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace - and you are, quintessentially, that! This “Theory of Everything” can be more succinctly expressed by the mathematical equation: E=A͚ (Everything equates to Infinite Awareness). HUMANS are essentially this Eternally-Aware-Peace, acting through an extraordinarily-complex biological organism, comprised of the eight rudimentary elements - pseudo-ego (the assumed sense of self), intellect, mind, solids, liquids, gases, heat (fire), and ether (three-dimensional space). When one peers into a mirror, one doesn't normally mistake the reflected image to be one's real self, yet that is how we humans conventionally view our ever-mutating form. We are, rather, in a fundamental sense, that which witnesses all transitory appearances. Everything which can be presently perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a culmination of that primary manifestation. That is the most accurate and rational explanation for “karma” - everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every action since has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY, via an ever-forward-moving trajectory. The notion of retributive (“tit-for-tat”) karma is just that - an unverified notion. Likewise, the idea of a distinct, reincarnating “soul” or “spirit” is largely a fallacious belief. Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves, is the result of two factors - our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning (which may include mutating genetic code). Every choice ever made by every human and non-human animal was determined by those two factors ALONE. Therefore, free-will is purely illusory, despite what most believe. Chapter 11 insightfully demonstrates this truism. As a consequence of residing within this dualistic universe, we experience a lifelong series of fluctuating, transient pleasures and pains, which can take the form of physical, emotional, and/or financial pleasure or pain. Surprisingly to most, suffering and pain are NOT synonymous. Suffering is due to a false sense of personal agency - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts, emotions, and deeds, and that, likewise, other persons are autonomous agents, with complete volition to act, think, and feel as they wish. Another way of stating the same concept is as follows: suffering is due to the intellect being unwilling to accept life as it manifests moment by moment. There are five SYMPTOMS of suffering, all of which are psychological in nature: 1. Guilt 2. Blame 3. Pride 4. Anxiety 5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future These types of suffering are the result of not properly understanding what was explained above - that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including Homo sapiens, has personal free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” The human organism is essentially a biopsychological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements (which can be perceived with the five senses) and the three subtle material elements (the three levels of cognition, which consist of abstract thought objects), listed above. The ANTIDOTE to all mental anguish is to firstly discern pain from suffering, then to achieve complete relief from that miserable state of existence, by abandoning the erroneous belief in personal authorship, and abiding in the primordial sense of being (the unqualified “I am”, which is one's core identity). This is the very same peace which is experienced each night during the dreamless phase of the sleep cycle. This 'resting imperturbably as Flawless Awareness' can be practiced on a regular basis, until it is fully assimilated and integrated into one's life. Every person, from time immemorial, has been either intentionally or unwittingly seeking such causeless peace, most commonly by practicing one of the four systems of YOGA (religion) delineated in the sixteenth chapter of this work, or else in creating wealth and the acquisition of material possessions, or in psycho-physical pleasures. That peace of mind is often referred to as “happiness”, “joy”, or “love”, and often presumed to be a temporal state, since many assume, incorrectly, that continuous peace is unavailable in this life. Fortunately, that is not the case - it is eminently possible to live one's life acquainted with unbroken peace of mind, if destined. Following DHARMA (frameworks of authentic religion and societal duties) is not guaranteed to achieve that desired tranquillity of mind, but even so, it is beneficial for individuals, since it establishes a structure which enables one to more easily elevate oneself beyond the mundane, animalistic platform (i.e. the base pursuits of eating, sleeping and mating). Intrinsic to dharma is the division of the adult male population into the four classes of society and the inherent role of girls and women in society, as fully elucidated in latter chapters of this Holy Scripture. Cont...
Actually you can't apply a percentile when you had nothing to begin with. It's like multiplying a million by zero; you still end up with nothing. You need to listen to Physicist Sean Carroll's teachings on TH-cam.
I am grateful when I discovered Alan. As my heart guru, no matter what i watch, i will always hear something new. As the person who allowed for the facilitation of the view, i am forever appreciative. No other person, am i able to listen to guided meditations from, and feel adequately satiated with experiential reality.
I stumbled on this and am listening to Alan Wallace for the first time. What a gift I've stumbled onto. In one fell swoop, I get to enhance my understanding of quantum mechanics and Buddhism. Prof Wallace makes that which boggles the mind so accessible and easy to understand. That's a talent that is rare.
I would so love to see a meeting between this man and Thomas Campbell, physicist and former NASA scientist. He has a "Theory of Everything" that essentially involves the evolution of "proto-consciousness" (his word) into the world that we see. Although he uses different terminology, I hear the equivalent of dharmakaya (undifferentiated consciousness), alaya (differentiated consciousness), bardo (reality frames) etc... Or at least hear Prof. Wallaces opinion of his theory. Enjoyed this talk so much! Thank you Prof. Wallace!
🐟 04. SCIENCE Vs RELIGION: The English word “SCIENCE” originates from the Latin noun “scientia”, meaning “knowledge”, via the stem “scire”, meaning “to know”. The English word “RELIGION” originates from the Latin verb “religare”, meaning “to join or unite”. It is the equivalent of the Sanskrit noun “yoga”, meaning “union (of the individual self with the Supreme Self)”. Therefore, “yoga” and “religion” are used synonymously in this chapter. The PHYSICAL sciences are an empirical approach to knowledge. They rely on experimentation, based on observation of the natural world. Observation is dependent on the senses, the senses are dependent on mind, and the mind is, in turn, observable by the intellectual faculty. The mind and intellect are phenomena arising in the perceived sense of self, or pseudo-ego (even if one considers that the mind and the intellect are functions of the brain), and therefore, all empirical evidence is gathered and recorded in consciousness. Similarly, the SOCIAL sciences explore facets of human society such as economics, anthropology, politics, and psychology in accordance with scientific principles. See Chapter 06 for a complete description of consciousness/Consciousness, and to understand the hierarchy of episteme mentioned above. It is patently impossible to establish the existence of anything outside of consciousness. How will one observe particles and their mechanics without the existence of consciousness? Clearly, consciousness is axiomatic for any statement of knowledge. The only fact one can know for sure is the certainty of existence, that is, the impersonal sense of an unqualified “I am” which precedes any cognitive process whatsoever. For example, if someone were to ask you "Do you exist?", you could never, in all honesty, respond in the negative, for that would be absurd! All that can be said or known about the world is a phenomenal appearance in consciousness. Anything else is speculation that can NEVER be definitively proven or demonstrated. However, this apparent subject/object duality is illusory, since Ultimate Reality is essentially monistic. So, for example, when a person looks at a tree, he or she is not actually seeing the tree in any direct sense, but interpreting an inverse image projected onto the retina of the eyes. Therefore, there is no real evidence (or at least, no conclusive proof) for the external world, APART from consciousness. Likewise, there are no sounds in the external world but solely within the mind, since vibrations do not produce an audible sound until they strike one’s eardrums, and the signal is conveyed to the brain. If the corresponding parts of the brain were to be artificially stimulated in the same manner, the experience of sight/sound would seem identical. That explains the Zen koan: “If a tree falls in a forest, and there is nobody present, does the falling tree produce a sound?” Refer, also, to the thought experiment known as “Schrödinger's cat”. Apart from the fact that we are unable to DIRECTLY perceive external phenomena, our sensory and cognitive facilities are far from perfect. Even if every human on earth experienced sounds and images in precisely the same manner, that does not prove that those perceptions accurately represent the world as it is, since other animals perceive the world quite differently than do humans. Some cognitive psychologists have demonstrated that all animals, including humans, have evolved not to perceive the external world completely objectively, but rather, have evolved to see the world in a way which promotes survival of their species. This is one explanation for the widespread belief in a Personal Creator God, since religious organizations (ideally) promote social cohesion (at least those which are not ultra-fundamentalist in nature). So, if most all the individuals in any particular nation follow the same religious tradition, the chances are that such a society will endure indefinitely. As alluded to above, it is imperative to mention that there are TWO main definitions of, or forms of, consciousness: the discrete consciousness associated with the brain of many species of animals (see Chapter 05), and Universal Consciousness (explained in Chapter 06). Perhaps a good analogy for the interplay between Universal Consciousness and the discrete consciousness found within the mammalian brain, is that of a radio receiver (being the tangible hardware, akin to the physical brain) and radio waves (being intangible, akin to consciousness/Consciousness). So long as the radio receiver is in good working-order, it tunes-into the electromagnetic radiation spectrum. However, if the radio set breaks down, the radio waves themselves continue to modulate in space. So too, when the human brain dies, Universal Consciousness (“brahman”, in Sanskrit) continues indefinitely. Note, however, that this analogy is imperfect, since in reality, both the brain and the radio waves are contained within Infinite Awareness (“brahman”). This confusion of terminology is due to the fact that the English language does not include a single word for the concept of Universal Consciousness (except “[The] Monad”) due to monism being a rather esoteric concept in the West. As Lord Śri Krishna so rightly states in “Bhagavad-gītā”, the King of All Knowledge (“rāja vidyā”, in Sanskrit) is the Science of the Self. At the time of writing, material scientists are beginning to explore the “hard problem” of consciousness. Assuming homo sapiens society will survive for at least a few more centuries, there will come a time when the majority of professional scientists will acknowledge the primacy of CONSCIOUSNESS. Indeed, if humanity is to continue indefinitely, it is necessary for not only this concept to be imprinted on the human race but for it to be acted upon; that is to say, we humans must imbibe the principal tenets presented in teachings such as this Holy Scripture, “A Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”, and actively follow them to a very large extent. The alternative is the extinction of not only humanity, but of most (if not all) biological life forms on Earth, due to environmental degradation, and immorality as a consequence of nihilism. So, just as the physical scientific method is based on hypothesis, observation, and repeatable experimentation, so too is METAPHYSICAL science. The hypothesis for supernatural science is as follows: that there is an eternal ground of all being, and that “it” is conscious, of a steady state (i.e. imperturbable peace), and that everything tangible and intangible is inherently of its nature. In the case of mysticism, the repeatable experiment is known as “religion” (“yoga”, in Sanskrit). Read Chapter 16 for a description of the four systems of religion/yoga. When a sincere and suitably-qualified aspirant CORRECTLY practices the scientific process of “yoga”, under the guidance of an authoritative pedagogue, he is assured of realizing the fact of the unity of the totality of existence, and achieving union with that Divine Principle, just as every enlightened sage has done for millennia. The symptoms of a person who has achieved union with the Supreme can very easily be confirmed by an accomplished yogi, in the same way that physical phenomena can be verified by a trained physicist (cf. Chapters 16 and 20). To put it succinctly, religion simply means to understand and realize that the fundamental nature of Reality is One Eternal-Conscious-Peace. In other words, when one knows for CERTAIN that there is really no subject-object duality, and lives one's life in harmony with that realization (by living a life of non-violence), one is said to “achieve yoga”. Chapter 17 summarizes the symptoms of a fully enlightened religious practitioner. That realization usually (but not always) comes about via the practice of the SCIENTIFIC process of religion described in Chapter 16 of this work. Of course, that doesn't imply that a each and every yogi is a perfected saint. Just as each physicist can be ranked according to his particular knowledge of physics, so too, each religionist falls somewhere in a spectrum of realization and understanding. Unfortunately, an authentic yogi is extremely rare, so one should be careful to not compare one's local (so-called) monk/preacher/priest/rabbi to a true yogi. Some of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, including Neils Henrik David Bohr and John Stewart Bell, have hypothesized that quantum particles, such as photons, have no precise location in space (quantum nonlocality) until they are PERSONALLY observed. This phenomenon was later demonstrated to be a scientific fact. Whether this should be regarded as proving that the physical world itself is “nonlocal” is a point of contention, but the terminology of “quantum nonlocality” is nowadays commonplace. The following formulae is the so-called “THEORY OF EVERYTHING”, much sought-after by theoretical physicists for the past century: E=∞BCP (Everything is Infinite Being-Consciousness-Peace [“satyam jnañam anantam brahma”, in Sanskrit]). Alternatively, and more simply, expressed as: E= A͚ (Everything is Infinite Awareness [“sarvam khalvidam brahma”, in Sanskrit]). For a thorough explanation of the above equations, refer to Chapters 05 and 06. Cont...
Those persons who criticize religion for being unscientific are EXTREMELY hypocritical, since they invariably accept the legitimacy of the so-called “soft sciences” (sociology, economics, political science, history, et cetera). Those branches of science are arguably far less “scientific” than religion, if one understands what constitutes actual religion, which is why the author of “Mahābhārata” (considered by many authorities to be the greatest work of literature ever composed) regarded yoga/religion to be the King of Sciences and the King of Confidential Knowledge. In summary, actual science and actual religion/mysticism are IDENTICAL, because Reality is singular. However, one deals in the realm of observable phenomena, whilst the other deals mainly with the inner-world of man, particularly with the subject (i.e. the ultimate observer of all phenomena, as described and explained in Chapter 06) and with teleological matters. To put it in other terms, authentic religion is akin to psychotherapy, combined with verified metaphysics, whist the material sciences generally do not venture away from the study of gross matter, apart from the so-called “humanities”. Unfortunately, however, the vast majority of humanity rarely, if ever, comes into contact with those rare spiritual masters who are qualified to teach actual religion, even in this current age of rapid mass communication and information. To quote Austrian-American physicist Fritjof Capra, “Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science. But man needs BOTH.” Without authentic religion, scientific endeavour is prone to moral corruption and nihilism. Without objective scientific evidence, spirituality is susceptible to sentimentality and fanaticism. “Consciousnesses is [defined as] that in which all experience appears, is that in which all experience is known, and that in which all experience is made.” ************* “Everything that we know or experience is known by consciousness, appears in consciousness and is a play of consciousness; just like the dream you have at night appears in your mind, is known by your mind and is a play of your mind.” ************* “Consciousness is always already awake. Or, more accurately, awakeness or awareness is one of its ‘qualities’. (Beingness and happiness are two of its other ‘qualities’). This consciousness ‘from time to time’ takes the shape of a thought which imagines itself (consciousness) to be limited to a particular body. It is as if you were to dress up as King Lear and by doing so forget that you are you. With this thought, consciousness seems to forget its own unlimited nature and seems instead to become a separate entity, a person. Once this identification has taken place, most of our thoughts, feelings and activities come from and express this belief and feeling of being separate, localised and limited. Because the happiness which is inherent in the knowing of our own being is lost when we forget our own being, the apparent person that results from this identification is in a perpetual state of unhappiness or seeking. In other words, it is the apparent person that is unhappy, that is seeking, that wishes to awaken to his or her true nature. However, this ‘person’ is itself the apparent veiling of its own true identity (consciousness). The person cannot awaken, because it only exists as the thought that thinks it. How could a thought, an illusion, awaken? King Lear cannot awaken, because King Lear is simply a costume that the actor wears. Can a costume awaken? You are already awake. That is, you, consciousness, that is seeing these words, is already and always awake, only it has lost itself in objects and thereby seemingly forgotten its own self. All that is required is to ‘remember itself’ again. What you call awakening (or remembering) is the clear seeing of your true nature and, as a result, the clear seeing of the non-existence of the separate person. That which is always awake is always awake. That which is not awake can never awaken.” Rupert Spira, English Spiritual Teacher. “Both observer and observed are merging and interpenetrating aspects of one who reality, which is indivisible and unanalysable.” ************* “In this flow, mind and matter are not separate substances. Rather, they are different aspects of one whole and unbroken movement.” ************* “Relativity and quantum theory agree, in that they both imply the need to look on the world as an undivided whole, in which all parts of the universe, including the observer and his instruments, merge and unite in one totality. In this totality, the atomistic form of insight is a simplification and an abstraction, valid only in some limited context.” ************* “Science itself is demanding a new, non-fragmentary world view.” David Bohm, American Theoretical Physicist, From “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”.
Wonderful knowledge & enthusiasm and very entertaining. Thank you, Alan. Remember Alan's remark about being a meditation dummy. Don't become an intellectual junky, forever fascinated by deep theoretical (meta) physics. In meditation, wisdom naturally arises. You don't need continuous intellectual stimulation. When mind and body are still wisdom naturally arises. Our western minds especially are super active, so the object of meditation is to acquire some space between thought and reaction, then extend that space into a usable void of no mind (no thought) into which wisdom can arise. Cultivate the ability to turn OFF all critical thought to allow this space of potential realisation. Giving intention is very powerful and gives momentum to your path. Giving intention say, to understand Karma to a deeper level, then simply sitting with the serious intention, at peace, in awareness, without thought, expectation or judgement, allows wisdom to arise or unfold naturally in the form of inspiration or profound realisation. Lightbulb moments. But the work has to be done internally, by you, not just talked about. Good luck.
Western science has still developed into something extraordinary. The only comparable peak of human achievement is Eastern science. The merging of these two ways of understanding the world, inner and outer, will no doubt achieve things we can't even comprehend today. The Dalai Lama himself says: _"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."_ - Society for Neuroscience Conference, 2005
This is a beautiful summary of our relationship with reality. I love that delayed choice/double-slit got an honorable mention. Thanks so much for this wonderful lecture.
On this whole subject, is there any theory or hypothesis into whether the reality of time (experienced rather than just the perception of it) for humans as they age does actually alter? I know everyone always complains time flies and this is especially acute as we get older. I've come to the belief that it isn't just a perception but that it's a localised experience and that it's real. I'm just interested to learn more (if there are theories or hypotheses on it) if there's any literature or books written on it. If anyone can point me in that direction, I'd be most grateful.
I do see you your point about the expense of university education. I worked my way through mine and finished with only a small loan that I could repay quickly. I know that wouldn't work so well today with skyrocketing tuition prices. My point was that economic aspects go all the way back to the beginning. Even the first councils of the Arhats when the scriptures were 'compiled' could not have taken place without patrons, and the sources say so. I hope you'll get the patronage you need to accomplish what's necessary. Sometimes the line between patron and employer is a thin one (and so, too, unfortunately is the line between employee and slave!) I think Wallace is brilliant. I wish I understood him better.
Often people use the economics argument to bash Western Buddhism as a supposedly degraded form of Buddhism compared to the 'pure' Buddhism of the East. Alan Wallace is guilty of it. This annoys me because as you say Buddhism has always had a large monetary component. Indeed, the line between employer and patron is so thin as to only appear to exist, due to cultural differences between East and West. In the East, a patron was the functional equivalent of an employer. You paid for a service. If the service was not performed, you stopped paying. As for temples and monasteries - building them is expensive now. In an agricultural economy it was enormously expensive. Someone had to pay for all of that.
My friends. ❤ I can’t help thinking about Dr. Strange, when he talks about manipulating the forms with effect in the world 😂🙏🏻 This was super helpful in understanding how humans think and perceive symbolic aspects of the universe. I can see clearly the confusion they suffer from and why. ❤️🔥👁️🙏🏻 Thank you for sharing this. Thank you so very much for this presentation.
In reference to his discussion on Pythagoras and his potential interaction with swamis, etc. from India, I have heard, or read, I don't remember which, that there was a lot of knowledge exchange between Greece and India and the Middle East because of trade routes, and if you look at the traditional medicines of Greece, Persia, and India, there are a lot of similarities in the theory and in practices as well. I don't doubt that there was knowledge transfer between those areas and that different traditions there were influenced by one another.
Alexander's conquest of the Persian Empire in the 330s BC and further conquests to the Indus River enabled the opening of trade routes to the Greek world. It also brought Greek culture to the Buddhist cultures of northern India, resulting in the first Buddhist statuary, which is of the Buddha in a Greek style. It would be hard to make a statue of the Buddha 500 years before he was born. Not all bad things went one-way from India to Greece. Democracy, for example. Buddhism never spent any time in a democracy until 50 years ago.
@@5piles Considering Pythagoras wasn't born until 500 years later, that's a strange claim. Buddha wasn't born until 2,500-2,400 BC, and so how could there be Buddhist statuary from 3,000 BC? Greco-Buddhism is well known, and it didn't start until about 300 BC.
@@squamish4244 i gave updated info so you will need to stop parroting institutional illusions of knowledge. also the first data of scientifically monitored thukdam is beginning to appear. this isnt the normal 4 to 7 day occurrence sometimes 2 weeks rarely longer, this time its over 30 days of a practitioners dead body in 2020 emitting warmth lack of body decomposition and even brain activity being detected
@@5piles Your info is the same, dude. You were just off by a factor of one, is all. You got me all wrong. I believe in all the stuff you wrote here about tuk-damn and so forth. I read The Crystal and the Way of Light 15 years ago, along with The Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying and several Alan Wallace works. But not ONLY Alan Wallace or Tibetan works, because believe it or not other more Western practitioners exist. What I think actually bothers you here is that I am well informed in Tibetan Buddhism but also in Western science, and if Tibetan Buddhism doesn't evolve with changing neuroscientific models and technologies, it isn't a question of which one will lose out. Buddhism will lose this contest, and the world will have lost an invaluable source of wisdom to inform the future evolution of neuroscience due to stubborn people like you. Btw, have you seen this 'parroted illusions of knowledge' video? It's only nine minutes long, I'm sure you can spare that much time. th-cam.com/video/spukj-4sYS0/w-d-xo.html
@@5piles 5piles, we have been over all these things several times now and yes, we are at different levels. But I think you need to get a clue. Your ego is spewing all over the place and you refuse to see things from my perspective. You think someone sweating their ass off in Louisiana right now because their power went out or terrified that their house is going to burn down in Tahoe can do this? How about the Aghan woman doctor crying because she can't get on a plane out of a country about to be taken over by viciously misogynistic assholes is going to get shamatha. How the hell is 95% of the world ever going to get shamatha in their circumstances? Right now Tibetan Buddhism is overwhelmingly the domain of rich white people and a handful of elites in Tibet. Even Alan came from a well-off white family, so no matter what he went through in Dharamsala he already had a head start on almost all of the world. You seem to have a total lack of compassion or understanding for everyone who doesn't have the time or money to do this. Nor do you seem to understand the speed at which events are moving in this world, and how Alan is a relic. Even the Dalai Lama has said that if there was an implant that could help him get rid of negative emotions without impairing critical judgement or the intellect, "I would be the first patient." Look it up. It is clear that you didn't bother to watch the video and that you just can't hear what I'm saying. I think we've corresponded enough. I wish you nothing but the best, but please, LISTEN to the world.
@@TheWorldTeacher Alan Wallace has taught me a lot more than I care to share in a post. I enjoy supporting Buddhism by commenting, liking, and subscribing to channels to encourage the spread of the dharma. I wish you love, peace, and happiness in your practice. Message me if you would like to connect.
Only by analogy. Very tough subject. Roger Penrose is IMO the most fascinating physicist regarding speculation on the nature of consciousness and far beyond Alan Wallace's - openly - rudimentary understanding. His theory of mind - Orchestrated Objective Reduction - is intriguing (and testable).
I daresay that AW has a much better understanding of the nature of consciousness than you. You can make a really good case to state that the only way to understand it is to experience it-- ie meditation. Wallace is saying something i have suspected: that consciousness is a fundamental force in the universe and you can't get under it. The real impact of this idea is that a "unified field theorem" will never be possible unless it includes consciousness as well as mass, force, space and time. It is also saying, however, that consciousness is one of the fundamental building blocks that cant be described in terms of something else. In this context, Penrose's work with Hameroff, as far as I can understand it, ( I work more with biology and psychology than particle physics), is proposing a mechanism by which consciousness can mesh with the physical universe to attain causal efficacy.
yakmanok ultimately, yes But note that emptiness in Buddhism is not a void Emptiness refers to empty of an intrinsic, independent self. You could say that at the base of everything, is what is labeled as rigpa, primordial awareness which is non dualistic, all pervasive, cognisant and luminous. Everything arises from and is not different from rigpa. The problem starts when we identify with the manifestations, this is where dualism begins. Due to ignorance regarding the true nature of reality (Interdependent arising on the relative level and rigpa on the ultimate level) we grasp at the phenomena and we suffer. The way out of samsara is purification of body speech and mind and understanding interdependent arising
we are very much converging upon a way of making this relationship much clearer in terms appreciable both by the physicist, the meditator with direct phenomenological experience, and with a little grace also perhaps the layity on both sides. asking questions like this helps a lot :)
I daresay we are talking past each other. When I say 'the nature of consciousness', I am referring to how it operates as part of the universe, not as how it is subjectively experienced. When Alan Wallace says it, he means as it is subjectively experienced, not as it operates in the universe. Two different things. Of course Alan Wallace understands subjective consciousness better than I do - although I would make a strong case for meditation not being the only way it can be understood. Neurofeedback, audio-visual entrainment, deep brain stimulation, photobiomodulation - these are all ways to gain insight into the subjective experience of consciousness in different ways than through meditation alone. And also pulsed ultrasound, which may be one way to actualize the findings of Orch-OR to enhance one's subectively experienced states of consciousness. Alan Wallace by his own admission has only a reasonably informed grasp of sophisticated concepts in physics. He is no Roger Penrose when it comes to trying to explain how this all fits together.
listening particle physics and Buddhism is humbling. perhaps the state of consciousness is the ultimate destination of human evolution, from physical being to quantum being, (State of consciousness ?). and the honorable Allen Wallace is the right person crafted by nature to explore this ultimate State of being. thanks for the effort and keep up with the good work. from Hker worldwide
Eh, pure speculation and pointless analogizing. Did Buddha or any of the great masters who attained realization know a single thing about physics or quantum mechanics? I think not. It’s completely unnecessary and just becomes another speculative venture for the conceptual mind.
Funny. He is even starting to sound like HHTDL. His cadence and expressions bring him to mind. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's rather lovely really.
my deepest compassion to all watching and who have watched this lecture, especially those who dislike the lecturer and use the video as an excuse to demean him. don’t get caught up clinging to views.
When Alan discusses the "ontological relativity", he mentions several people but omitted the most important thinker; Nagarjuna, especially regarding the concept of the Madhyamaka (Middle Way). My apologies if he is mentioned in the later part of the presentation.
The mathematics of quantum computer shows many other states between 0 and 1, called cubits of super position of information representing different dimensions, enabling making many operations/calculations simultaneously. Our sense organs comprise of such quantum computing (QC) neural connections, all information are fed into the pineal gland (also with QC connections) where all the information are processed (meditation) to produce knowledge and creative experience, implying the pineal gland is the seat of intelligence and consciousness (Penrose, Hameroff etc.) The double slit experiment demonstrates the power of observation, distinguishing between waves and particles as a connection between the two dimensions of reality. Similarly, how the Feynman's universal quantum field creates the material universe due to divine 'observation', implies intelligent design and universal consciousness simulated by universal quantum fields, just like color, smell, taste etc.
Everybody seems to agree with something they cannot see, yet the same concurrence is present with Christianity, though often rejected politically. However, there is a correlation, in that one is sacrificial in nature, while the other sacrifices the self.
Before Hubble looked in his telescope and saw that some dots in the sky were not stars (as everyone had thought) but galaxies, were those dots actually stars? That seems very weird to say. Also, if so: how did they become galaxies? It's weird to think that peer review of science journals is what actually shapes reality. I hope that's not the case (give the current NSF and NIH funding patterns). It all sounds like obfuscatory mental slight of hand.
Imagine connecting string theory with beliefs like Buddhism to explain karma and life's energy. Maybe the metaphysical approach of some religion was our ancient human attempt to describe life down to the sub atomic particles. Is there not a resemblance between string vibrations and what we call energy in spiritual terms?
@laluna5548 I wrote a lengthy paper on this topic but will have to try to epitomize it here: Herodotus says Amasis II sent Cambyses or Cyrus an eye doctor. Pythagoras has been said to have been a doctor (Sanskrit Charyas / Goras) and his sayings speak of the eyes more than any other sense. Cambyses is a namesake of the Kambojas who the Buddhist converted during the reign of Cyrus. Cyrus is a namesake of the Indian Kurus who married into the Gautamas as the name Codomannus (Gautaman: variant of Gautama) is found in the family of Cyrus. PythaGoras was said to have visited both Cambyses and the Memphis Ptah temple where the archeologist Flinders Petrie unearthed an Indian Buddha figurine dating to the time of Cambyses. Confirming that the Buddhist were in the area is that the nearby African Blemmyae are voted in the Buddhist monastic code (vinaya) dating to 400 b.c. and references to the Buddhist wheel are found in Persia right after the Buddha's time and in Egypt a little later. If you want the particular references, let me know. Another proof that the Buddhists were in Egypt at the time of PythaGoras is that the pioneering folklorist Joseph Jacobs traced Aesop's fables to a compilation of fables under the name Kashyapa in Afghanistan, the stronghold of the Kambojas, around 500 b.c.. (Kashyapa / Giuseppe / Joseph / Aesop / Asoph / Hotep / Ethiop). The Indian Kurus are said to be named after the verb 'karoti', cognate Prakrit Charyas, Sanskrit Gurus, genitive case of Guru. The superlative case of Charyas is Charyasthi (Kharosthi / Christ) . Kharosthi is also the name of the script used by the Kambojas and other Persians. It was rendered into Hebrew as "Charoset" or " Kharoseth", " The Word". Many other evidences suggest PythaGoras was a BuddhaCharyas: such as the fact that scholars have found references to Buddhist fables in Herodotus' story of the marriage of Agariste and the Dancing Peacock Buddhist fable. The Egyptian god Ptah has a name oft etymologized from Hebrew 'batah', " open", as Sanskrit 'buddhi' also has the meaning of "open".
also, either wheeler or you were wrong, only regarding to hawkings "information". you might shift your thoughts as '"strange loops," but please accept phisics and basic theorem before laying down other theories of time and relativity.
The one thing I don’t understand bout Alan Wallace’s version of buddhism is why he always insists on conflating it with Christianity. They just don’t mix. It’s his main hang up and is getting in the way when its his chosen way to communicate Dzogchen and Vajrayana in general IMHO. Conflating Buddhist and Christian concepts lead to misunderstandings. The distinctiveness of each tradition's doctrines, practices, and goals become blurred, causing confusion among practitioners and aspiring students.
Finding PYTHAGORAS on the historical record and the etymological connection of his name with the titles " Buddha" & " Christ": Herodotus says that the Egyptian Pharaoh Amasis wrote a letter to his friend and tyrant king of Samos named Polycrates in which he advised him to throw away his most valuable possession to keep his run of good luck going. Herodotus says that Polycrates threw his emerald signet ring in the ocean. The father of Pythagoras was said to be an emerald dealer from Samos who acquired his emeralds from Meroe Egypt. Herodotus says that Amasis sent a " eye- doctor" to Cambyses. It has been widely repeated among ancient authors that Pythagoras was an eye-doctor who first travelled to Egypt before visiting the Indian gymnosophists. The name CAMBYSES is well preserved in India under the tribal name of KAMBOJAS ( CAMBYSES) associated with early Buddhism: that tribe is also said to have given it's name to the country CAMBODIA . Isaiah calls his father " CYRUS (GORAS), " CHRIST" and Cyrus himself claims descent from HAXAMANIS, a perfect Pahlavi rendering of the Buddha's Sanskrit/ Prakrit title SHAKYAMUNIS (HAXAMANIS). The Buddhists borrowed Brahmanic terminology such as with the Brahmin title " BrahmaCharyas" which the Buddhists changed to BUDDHACHARYAS (PYTHAGORAS). The Prakrit title CHARYAS, cognate Sanskrit GURU,is usually translated to English as " doctor" . The imperfect case is ACHARYAS and the superlative form is CHARYASTHI/ KHAROSTHI (CHRIST). The most popular etymological derivation of Greek " CHRIST" derives it from a verb for " anoint" first attested to in the Greek play Prometheus Bound. All philologists etymologize the name Prometheus from pure Sanskrit etymons. Presumably the verb CHRISTOS in Prometheus Boundcame from a noun signifying " oil" , such as the Sanskrit word " GHRITA", genitive case ' GHRITUS', which was sacred butter ( Prakrit GHEE, Hebrew CHEE) that was anointed on kings in imitation of the first sacrificial man Agni Purusha. It's etymological connection to CHARYAS is likely and is also seen in other words such as our word " gra-vity". The author of Prometheus Bound also authored the Greek play The Birds which Megasthenes , quoted by Arrian, says was based off of an Indian original. Pliny the Elder mentions that Alexander the Great was made to eat TEREBINTH at Cyrus's tomb. The Persian name for the Terebinth tree is " BUTM tree" Early church fathers tell of a man named " TEREBINTHUS" who conversed with the apostles in Jerusalem with four "Indian Gospels". They say he also went by the name BUDDAS. The etymology of TEREBINTH comes from a joining of the words for tree ( tere) and bodhi, Chaldean " bint", ' reason', Sanskrit 'bodhi'. At precisely the said of time of Pythagoras and the Buddha ( 500 b.c.) the Greek word for pain 'penthos' was changed to ' batthos'. Pythagoras was said to be from the island of Samos and it is from this exact area that the Homeric Hymn to Apollo was formed. In it we see Apollo's mother being aided at the birth of Apollo from a tree that magically bends down. All scholars of comparative studies claim that the tree bending down to aid the mother is strictly an Indian motif and in my last book I examine its appearance in the legends of Muhammad ( Maha-maitreya) and Christ who are also associated with the Terebinth, or, BUTM tree. Finally, it should be mentioned that the theorem attributed to Pythagoras was first found in Egypt under the science attributed to PTAH ( BUDDHA) and before that it is found in the writings of BUDHAyana. The scholar Dr Clyde Owens found that the people of Meroe Egypt adopted the Buddhist KHAROSTHI ( CHRIST) script and other ancient writers tell us that the Indian gymnosophists settled in Meroe Egypt. While there is a distinction in Classical Sanskrit between BUDHA and BUDDHA, the Kharosthi script superimposes constant clusters ( ex the DD in BuDDHA) : rendering BUDDHA as BUDHA, or PTAH. For much more, see my book JESUS' GODAMA SOURCES The Birds Jataka: Once, the Buddha was a wise quail, the leader of a flock. One day, a hunter came into the forest. Imitating the quails' own calls, he began to trap unwary birds. The wise quail noticed that something was amiss. Calling his flock together, he announced, “My fellow quail, I am afraid that there is a hunter in our forest. Many of our brothers and sisters are missing. We must be alert. Danger is all around us. Still, if we work together we can stay free. Please listen to my plan. If you should hear a whistling call-twe whee! twe whee! twe wheel-as if a brother or sister were calling, be very watchful! If you follow that call, you may find darkness descending upon you. "Your wings may be pinned so that you cannot fly, and the fear of death may grip your heart. If these things happen, just understand that you have been trapped by the hunter's net and do not give up! Remember, if you work together you can be free. Now, this is my plan. You must stick your heads out through webs of the net and, then, you must all flap your wings together. As a group, though you are still bound in the net, you will rise up into the air. Fly to a bush. Let the net drape on the branches of the bush so you can each drop to the ground, and fly away from under the net, this way and that, to freedom. Do you understand? Can you do this?” “We do understand,” answered all the quail as one, “and we will do it! We will work together and be free.” Hearing this, the wise quail was content. The very next day a group of quail were pecking on the ground when they heard a long whistling call. “Twe whee! twe whee! twe whee!” It was the cry of a quail in distress! Off they rushed. Suddenly darkness descended on them and their wings were pinned. They had indeed been trapped by the hunter's net. But, remembering the wise quail's words, they did not panic. Sticking their heads out through the webs of the net they flapped their wings together, harder and harder and slowly, slowly, with the net still draped upon them, they rose, as a group, through the air. They flew to a bush. They dropped down through the bush, leaving the net hung on the outer branches, then flew away, each in their own direction, this way and that, to freedom. The plan had worked! They were safe! They had escaped from the jaws of death. And, oh, they were happy! But the hunter was not happy. He could not understand how the quail had escaped him. And this happened not just once, but many times. At last, the hunter realized the truth. “Why,” he said, amazed, “those quail are cooperating! They are working together! But it can't last. They are only birds, featherbrains after all. Sooner or later they will argue. And when they do, I shall have them.” And so, he was patient. Now, the wise quail had had the same thought. Sooner or later the birds of his flock would begin to argue, and when that happened they would be lost. So he decided to take them deeper into the forest, far from their present danger. That very day something happened to confirm the wise quail's thought. A quail was pecking on the ground for seeds when another bird of the flock, descending rapidly, accidentally struck it with its wing-tip. “Hey! Watch it, stupid!” called the first quail, in anger. “Stupid is it?” responded the newly-landed quail, flustered because he had been careless, “Why are you so high and mighty? You were too dumb to move out of my way! Yes, you were too dumb, you dumb cluck!” “Dumb cluck is it?” cried the first quail, “Dumb cluck? Why, talking of dumb, it's clear that you can't even land without slapping someone in the face! If that isn't ‘dumb,’ I don't know what is! Who taught you to fly anyway-the naked-winged bats?” “Bats is it?” yelled the second quail, enraged, “Bats? Why, I'll give you a bat, you feathered ninny!” And with a loud chirruping whistle he hurled himself straight at the other quail. Chasing furiously after one another, loudly hurling insults and threats back and forth, they flew, twisting and turning, between the great, silent trees of the grove. An argument had started and, as is the way of arguments, no end was in sight. The wise quail was nearby and he heard it all. At once he knew that danger was again upon them. If they could not work together the hunter was sure to have them. So again he called his flock together and said, “My dear brother and sister quail. The hunter is here. Let us go elsewhere, deeper into the forest and there, in seclusion, discipline ourselves, practicing our skills in working together. In this way we shall become truly free from the danger.” Many of the birds said, “Though we love our
I have always wondered how someone could conclude that a dog or a cat or any animal is not conscious without actually inhabiting that animal's mind and viewing the world from it's perspective.
enjoying the lecture.. thinking about Dr Hawkings... I have several of his books.. 4 or 5 maybe... my father built nuclear weapons for the army and taught reactor physics when I was in high school... my brother taught at UCSD in biomedical engineering.. I had a son when I was 18.. I went to work... and the library... my dad would give me the relativity equations whenever some bozo mentioned those letters... UFO... not me, of course... or.. only once... so .. I have them sorta implanted in my consciousness... the primary aspect being as mass is accelerated it gains mass in direct proportion to the velocity through kinetic energy... at light speed the mass becomes infinite we cannot accelerate mass beyond light speed because it takes infinite energy to move infinite mass the idea of a black hole is... mass accelerated beyond light speed... by the internal force of gravity... in a star... fusion of new elements ceases at iron.. even in blue giants... there is insufficient energy to fuse elements beyond iron in a gravitational source of energy.. I didn't make it up... my dad told me... so have at least 5 other sources I can think of.. like Dr Isaac Asimov... science fiction.. with actual math... my father called it the iron cycle.. trans iron elements require a supernova... 4 generations of stars said my dad... he was teaching reactor physics at the time... so there's a discrepancy, eh? black holes and dark matter are related to the big bang theory... a theory predicated on... squeezing a whole universe into one of my dots.... clearly impossible without magic... now I'm going to watch the rest... thanks UCSB... let's try to figure it out... Richard Feynman said... I'd much rather have questions I can't answer than answers I can't question... so it is
information in our brain is a very physical phenomenon.. with positive and negative charges being used in a binary way exactly like a computer memory chip does.. but our brain stores memories in a 3 dimensional lattice instead of the one dimensional pathways allowed in our current technology... the internet and the advent of "artificial intelligence" like Ms Google has given us... multiple paths and memory storage areas that are used by the "observer".. my friend Ms Google is such an awesome observer... maybe you have noticed that.. I don't know about your phone... I start saying goofy shit to my dog.. Dr Punkin... and... occasionally.. when I have the blues... she gives me a recipe for pumpkin soup or something...I start laughing.. out the door with the blues... te amo Ms Google... so... magnetic fields can.. and do... store information.. in nature... independent of human observation... or Dr Punkin either... sentient beings HH the Dalai Lama calls them... and part of the foundation of Buddhism is asking questions... and the answers are stored in magnetic... binary... iron creates a magnetic field from the different oxidation states common in iron.. Fe - -, and Fe - - -... a single electron difference made up all magnets we had until very recently... it stores information independent of observation... ie.. the poles of the Planet shift around the axis of rotation... and from north to south and back... it's recorded in the magnetic stuff in the rocks of the planetary crust... observation found it.. but it came about independent of observation
so... if... you think about fusion in a star... hydrogen is squeezed together into helium... a single proton//electron pair... and 2 protons and 2 electrons in the helium atom... ignoring the neutrons... at the moment... the difference between them creates the sun's magnetic field... and probably had a lot to do with the formation of Planets around our very ordinary.. main sequence, star... and thus planetary evolution... from the center outward... was the result of the amount of helium present in our star... that's also independent of observation... but it's information.. outside of big bang theory universes and... the magic currently in vogue science is not separate from mathematics... if you don't see the math... it's just blah blah blah
Buddhists call this independent... or dependent... origination... theistic religion stress independent origination from a creator... Buddhism... Jainism... and ... I have to look up the name... which clearly shows I don't know everything... heh heh heh.. don't have a single creator... we each create our own little slice of heaven... or hell... through our thoughts and ideas, and our words and deeds... but I bet you already know that, eh? we have arrived at the point I stopped the video to write... ;;~}>>> given a chance... we might figure it out... R Feynman said you learn more when you teach others what you know... he was right... as usual
let's talk about spacetime for a moment... this moment in Time.. is all there is... space is the distance between two "things".. it requires neither making, nor a beginning and end things is another technical term for stuff... there's stuff all around us... and... we are definitely part of it... what is it.. and where does it come from... ?... the supposition that the Universe is growing because some galaxies are moving away from us ignores the fact that there are an equal number moving towards us... and an equal number moving tangent to our motion along the Sagittarius arm of our galaxy... seen clearly in Hubble deep space images... this venue doesn't allow pictures very well... lo siento... I have many published from my own development technique with Snapseed HDR... which brings in near and far infrared and ultraviolet.. with smaller units of information at each iteration... so 4 iterations brings the number of original pixels with 8 more zeros after the number... squared 4 times.. Ms Google does the math and then we add 3 dimensional parsing... the missing 80% of the visible Universe shows up... it's like taking the dark glasses off... galaxies literally fill the sky... ad infinitum... red moves away... blue towards... green yellow and orange move tangent... all mixed together with absolutely no prefered direction... we say the Universe is flat... this means... it's the same in all directions... it's also fractal.. the same at all scales
I want to hear him dialogue with Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff and their Orch-OR theory of consciousness, and the quantum processes in the microtubules in the brain.
@@backwardthoughts1022 Orch-OR has implications that are not physicalist. It is also the only theory of mind that is actually testable and therefore truly scientific, at this point.
@@squamish4244 nah, mind as emergent property of quantum computation is still standard physicalism albeit with a much more refined understanding of mass-energy. mind is asserted still as a derivative of something actually primary. the hard problem is still just being negated by calling subjectivity an illusion without indicating how illusions exist as a function of mass-energy thus resolving nothing about the meaning of the hard problem. it is however very good to actually have something testable when asserting emergent properties. currently physicalists are positing observations of bases of emergence absent observation of emergence... normally such results are plain indication of the non-existence of what you are positing but it is too hard to accept currently for our modern institutional church of scientism. therefore the subtler the base of emergence is understood the easier it will be to highlight the absence of posited emergence, at some point even strong believers will be forced to reconcile what theyre doing conceptually.
@@5piles Hamreroff is not a physicalist, and Penrose is agnostic on the subject. They're not positing consciousness as a emergent proptery and quantum physics, but something that is manifested in animal brains through quantum processes. Hameroff says that the idea of a primordial consciousness is compelling, but thus far it is not testable and therefore not scientific. Yet Orch-OR is also the only testable model out there. The only one. It might eventually be supseded by something based on, for example, the crazy new Fristonian physics: www.wired.com/story/karl-friston-free-energy-principle-artificial-intelligence/
@@squamish4244 they assert not that mind is an epiphenomenon of quantum computation but that it is an emergent property of it. this means mind is not primary but just an emergent property of some other primary part of reality. if you agree with this thats called physicalism, namely there being just the physical or in this case just the quantum or some not yet clear variation of the 2 in interaction.
@@5piles I get it, but Hameroff and Penrose also disagree somewhat on aspects of the theory. Hameroff is all into Orch-OR explaining survival of death, psychic powers, reincarnation etc. Check out 'Stuart Hameroff: Closer to Truth' on here. Yes, they assert that mind is an emergent property of quantum mechanics, but Hameroff says this does not mean there is not a primordial mind, it just can't be studied. What you can study is how it manifests in conscious beings, and this is where the quantum effects come in as being necessary for consciousness to exist in animal brains. Penrose has made hints every so often about this, suggesting the universe had a 'proto-conscious moment' in which it was briefly aware of itself early on or...something? 'Why Consciousness Doesn't Compute' is an article explaining his own stance. Penrose also says we may need a new physics to explain consciousness.
But hang on the point of Buddhism is a desire to not desire. And escape rebirth. Knowing science, all energy cannot be created nor destroyed. So knowing that all atoms are universal how did an individual such as the Buddha escape the oneness?
no Buddhas and arhats desire u to escape suffering. ur mistranslating or were mistaught the word for attachment, meaning to grasp at anything that appears to you which is accompanied by cognitive misperception.
I don’t know, it seems to me that this all seems entirely superfluous to practice and may even become a huge distraction. You don’t need any knowledge of quantum physics to practice, so why add more abstract concepts to your repertoire? What is the benefit? It always seems like he is grasping for proof of some metaphysical truth through these musings. Again, what is the benefit to practice? Buddhism is not very interested in theory. If this kind of talk reduces one’s grasping to fixed ideas and opening to other possibilities, it might be of some benefit, but it always seems like it’s trying to prove something.
What is "realizing it" Alan? That was your last idea.... ...His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speaking of Rigpa/a.k.a. Ground Luminosity, a.k.a. subtle most level of consciousness, a.k.a. absolute truth, a.k.a. Samantabadra/ri, and so on, refers to something that is "not human". Is "not conscious" (words of his holiness the dalai lama). It is the subtle most level of mind, more subtle than fainting, more subtle then sleeping without dreams! ....according to his holiness the dalai lama.. And I agree for now. My point, if the cessation of suffering, or "spinning" as you called it, is "shedding" some (quite natural) "old skin" on our minds, e.g. loosing our humanity, and our consciousness (along with the three poisons), would it not be more fruitful to focus on "subtraction" rather than "addition" (of realization)?
I agree! What is the point of adding all these theoretical analogies? Just more and more concepts to distract and cling to. There is no way people aren’t grasping at straws hoping physics can “prove” Buddhism is “true”. What a waste of time.
Modearn world called these quantum fields. Buddha finds those 7000 yeras ago. One day buddhas folower ask how wast is universe. Buddha said my dear get a handful of sand and count each one of sand and mattiply and multiply that number and multiply by that number there r no end of it buddhas word there is no end to universe and he told to that is not to seek humans cuz it will be never end it
He talks like a used car salesman. Like he's trying to persuade and sell you something. Which he is, himself. The expert. Cobbling together intelligent sounding research.
Alan Wallace lets himself down at times by saying some really silly things. 'If consciousness is like a computer program then who wrote it?'. Obviously the idea would be that evolution 'wrote' it. The truth is that no one truly knows whether consciousness is a mechanism or not. We will find out when we reverse engineer the brain and either see how consciousness works as a mechanism, or find that the mechanisms in the brain are not sufficient to explain all of our behaviour.
People who think like Buddhists do not try to find an answer to everything because there is no first cause, ultimate answer or end according to Buddhism. It's open ended. Buddhists try to analyze & explain what they think is reality. Consciousness is a mechanism which we have no control of. Animals & humans are like robots programmed to survive & breed. There is nothing called free will or self. Dependent origination explains this.The brain cannot be reverse engineered because it gets signals for the actions that humans do from outside. Humans have nothing to do with any action we take because we are not in control. Humans think they are in control but we they are not. This is basically the concept of impermanence, no self & permanent soul /self being a total illusion according to Buddhism. Self is a temporary construction of trillions of things like atoms, genes, organs etc that come together at birth with conscience & dissipates into nature at death. There is no permanent soul also according to Buddhism. This is too deep to explain & I suggest you watch videos on the subject & decide for yourself. Even within Buddhism there are conflicting views & interpretations. No Buddhist will say he is right & others are wrong because it's like a discussion. I too found it difficult to get it for years, but now I think I have got it, more or less. It's more or less certain that vast majority of humans will never know & describe the ultimate reality because all we see are illusions & we are limited with words & interpretations. I will just give you the results of just one experiment done on volunteers attached with sensors. Hundreds of volunteers were shown many pictures randomly. Some very pleasant pictures like flowers, parks etc & some very bloody like accidents dead bodies etc. All volunteers were normal - except that two seconds before they were shown the unpleasant pictures sensors detected sweat breaking out on their palms. This happened consistently on all volunteers. So the brain somehow knew 2 seconds before & were getting ready for the bloody pictures. This cannot be explained in conventional terms. Unfortunately I do not have the link to the video of the research.
When people want to believe certain things, they are often willing to accept flawed arguments and evidence in order to justify those beliefs. Let's just look at your last point regarding the experiment. If such a phenomena were to be reliably reproducible, that would be 'Earth shattering'. It would be on the front page of every newspaper in the world. I would not be hearing about it for the first time in a youtube comment. When you perform an experiment, if you want it to be taken seriously, you have to publish a detailed account of the methods used for the experiment. Then, if no one can see an obvious flaw in your experimental procedure, other laboratories will attempt to reproduce the experiment, and they too will publish their results. If it can be reliably reproduced, and still no one can see any flaws in the procedure, then it will be accepted. Clearly, this experiment has not made it through this very reasonable process and is thus flawed.
LOL are you expecting mainstream news to report on news that contradict mainstream science which is a mafia ? I bet you did not know Tibetan Buddhist priests creating heat by meditation - mind controlling matter & creating energy - This is an experiment done by a recognized institute & professors th-cam.com/video/R-wuOYlxMSY/w-d-xo.html I bet you have not heard of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake because he challenges mainstream bullshit th-cam.com/video/aA5wAm2c01w/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/2UX4d2nb7yU/w-d-xo.html
The evidence is not in what mainstream science does but what they don't. Mainstream science does not have millions. It has only a few thousand at most. The millions of others are the ignorant cheerleaders & suckers who have the Stockholm syndrome LOL.
This presentation has little or nothing common with satori experience of Shakyamuni Buddha. His mind was simple, easy and beautiful. Satori? Those rags behind this important man are yellow and the flowers on his table are pink. This you see this you know. This you realize during Satori enlightenment. This world lives The Buddha and all Buddha’s. We have spring now. Before was winter, much snow. Next is summer coming. Later autumn and again winter. In winter snow is white and...cold. This you should realize if you want to be released from samsara into moksha at death process. Once going through satori you are free. Free from samsara and live in a complete world of annutara samyak sambodhi. In world of enlightenment which is an ordinary everyday world we already are living. Difference is we are talking and thinking as this intellectualism here and Buddhas are using their bodies, speech and mind to live everyday life as ordinary people doing ordinary things. Hahaha!
If we want to make that experience accessible to more than a tiny handful of people who have hours a day to spare in meditation, we have to go this route and understand what is happening on a scientific level. Not just on a physics level, which Dr. Wallace uses to keep the implications at a distance, but on a biological level. Bringing this down to the level of the brain and nervous system makes it all very personal and invites practical applications of new technologies to rapidly accelerate the process of enlightenment. If that makes you uncomfortable, well, too bad - they are already working hard on the problem, and have made a lot of progress in just a few years. They will make more progress on this in the next 20 years than they have made in the last 2500. And thank god for that.
Intellectual understanding will lead to better methods of meditation, and better methods *than* meditation. We have 1990s supercomputers in our pockets but the best we can do with meditation is follow instructions set down hundred of years ago? That's insane.
@@squamish4244 Not if enlightenment is your goal. Meditation is looking into your own mind and seeing its true nature. Can't do that with any known technology.
From Wikipedia: _"Technology is the collection of techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation. Technology can be the knowledge of techniques, processes, and the like, or it can be embedded in machines to allow for operation without detailed knowledge of their workings."_ It sounds an awful lot like meditation itself can be defined as a technology. One organizes the forms of the mind in such a manner that one can then dissolve the forms of the mind. Meditation is an efficient use of internal forms (forms are forms, internal or external, in a purely nondual sense) - and therefore a technology. In Tibetan Buddhism, many 'supports' are used for developing the mind - chanting, drumming, bells, dancing, divination - what are those? Technologies. And what if it just plain works? Certain terminally ill cancer patients had deep brain stimulation to 'wind down' the part of their brain associated with the internal commentary on pain. The results were amazing. They did not need morphine until the very last weeks of their lives. We are working on various ways to make that winding down of mental chatter permanent and non-invasive. That seems like a huge support for the pursuit of enlightenment. I had magnets put over my right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to treat my OCD, a horrifying disease that has been a huge obstacle to my progress in quieting my mind. It worked. Is that not a support for the path to enlightenment?
He goes on, with an endless array of Mudras, lauding the manipulations of a reality that is a gift of Hashem. Manipulation is the consequence of political enthrallment.
Bla bla bla bla...This is what many other tradistions and religious way had explained the world for thousands years but we didnt learned any thing from it..
I’m curious, how much money Mr. Wallace earned on Buddhism...more than Thurman or less...!? Buddha was teaching for free, took no money for his job. It is written that Buddha said ....or....rather....lamented....about people in his time who sell his teachings and make a fortune on them. He said those monks, scholars create only intense bad karma. And we know what bad karma means, no...?
There always have been social and financial arrangements that make the teaching situation possible. Of course there shouldn't be pecuniary motives, but you seem to put forward an unreachable ideal of the non-presence of money. Buddha took donations of entire parks full of trees, for example. He used those parks for teaching to his students.
Dan Yerushalmi Don't tell me a gift from a king is a salary money....these shitty people are telling nonsense about Buddha Dharma and ripping a heavy bucks for their blabbering. Same like Kabbat Zinn and Jack Kornfield. If you know Buddha's teachings in your Heart you can discern between what is true what is false. If you don't know beans about true Dharma then buy one more of Mr. Wallace's or Mr. Thurman's book. Yeah. Have a nice days of reading this garbage, OK?
Well, sir, I'm saying that at today's land prices, a gift of a good piece of land could be a way of retiring nicely. I don't yet believe you are in a position to judge who is real and who is not. I think you will agree 'salaries' are not the primary criteria for that. I haven't seen any evidence that either of those persons you mentioned are motivated by money. And I haven't seen any evidence that you can live on pure air yourself, or can you? If everybody who gets any financial advantage is fake, we would have to conclude that everybody is a fake, because all get financial advantages, even the poorest monks. If they don't, they starve. And I imagine you would like to see that happen, wouldn't you? Death by starvation would be the ultimate in pure authenticity. So go for it.
Dan Yerushalmi Yeah, you're right. Why not to enroll to Columbia University or University of Washington and to pay the fee for 5 year study the Buddhism under Wallance or Thurman. I hope you are enough well off to cover the price, are you not...? You will learn nonsense and win a PHD in Comparative Religions or in Eastern Religions or...in Buddhism. You also will stay short of 50 to 80 thousand dollars paid straight to pockiet of University employers including such blabbers like Wallance who is tripping in this video, no...?
What a fantabulous lecture! Really blew my mind. Thanks a lot Prof. Wallace
Beautiful lecture. I think I understood 20% of it. But that is 100% more than I understood before listening to it. Thank you.
Do you understand any of the FOLLOWING?:
🐟 02. A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF “LIFE”:
Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible - that is, any gross or subtle OBJECT within the material universe which can ever be perceived with the cognitive faculties, plus the SUBJECT (the observer of all phenomena) - is to what most persons generally refer when they use the term “God”, since they usually conceive of the Primeval Creator as being the Perfect Person, and “God” (capitalized) is a personal epithet of the Unconditioned Absolute. However, this anthropomorphized conception of The Monad is a fictional character of divers mythologies.
According to most every enlightened sage in the history of this planet, Ultimate Reality is, far more logically, Absolutely NOTHING, or conversely, Absolutely EVERYTHING - otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “Brahman”, “Pure Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “The Ground of All Being”, “Uncaused Nature”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera - yet, as alluded to above, inaccurately referred to as a personal deity by the masses (e.g. “God”, “Allah”, “Yahweh”, “Bhagavan”, etc.).
In other words, rather than the Supreme Truth being a separate, Blissful, Supra-Conscious Being (The Godhead Himself or The Goddess), Ultimate Reality is Eternal-Existence Limitless-Awareness Unconditional-Peace ITSELF. That which can be perceived, can not be perceiving!
Because the Unmanifested Absolute is infinite creative potentiality, “it” actualizes as EVERYTHING, in the form of ephemeral, cyclical universes. In the case of our particular universe, we reside in a cosmos consisting of space-time, matter and energy, without, of course, neglecting the most fundamental dimension of existence (i.e. conscious awareness - although, “it” is, being the subject, by literal definition, non-existent).
Just as a knife cannot cut itself, nor the mind comprehend itself, nor the eyes see themselves, The Absolute cannot know Itself (or at least objectively EXPERIENCE Itself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Itself for the purpose of experiencing Itself, particularly through the lives of self-aware beings, such as we sophisticated humans. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness, in the same way that a dream is a person's sleeping narrative set within the life-story of an “awakened” individual.
APPARENTLY, this phenomenal universe was created with the primal event (the so-called “Big Bang”), which started, supposedly, as a minute, slightly uneven ball of light, which in turn, was instigated, ultimately, by Extra-Temporal Supra-Consciousness. From that first deed, every motion or action that has ever occurred has been a direct (though, almost exclusively, an indirect) result of it.
Just as all the extant energy in the universe was once contained within the inchoate singularity, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the beginning of the universe, and is in no way an epiphenomenon of a neural network. Discrete consciousness, on the other hand, is entirely dependent on the neurological faculty of individual animals (the more highly-evolved the species, the greater its cognitive abilities).
“Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (a Sanskrit maxim from the “Chandogya Upanishad”, meaning “all this is indeed Brahman” or “everything is the Universal Self alone”). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace - and you are, quintessentially, that!
This “Theory of Everything” can be more succinctly expressed by the mathematical equation: E=A͚ (Everything equates to Infinite Awareness).
HUMANS are essentially this Eternally-Aware-Peace, acting through an extraordinarily-complex biological organism, comprised of the eight rudimentary elements - pseudo-ego (the assumed sense of self), intellect, mind, solids, liquids, gases, heat (fire), and ether (three-dimensional space). When one peers into a mirror, one doesn't normally mistake the reflected image to be one's real self, yet that is how we humans conventionally view our ever-mutating form. We are, rather, in a fundamental sense, that which witnesses all transitory appearances.
Everything which can be presently perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a culmination of that primary manifestation. That is the most accurate and rational explanation for “karma” - everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every action since has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY, via an ever-forward-moving trajectory. The notion of retributive (“tit-for-tat”) karma is just that - an unverified notion. Likewise, the idea of a distinct, reincarnating “soul” or “spirit” is largely a fallacious belief.
Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves, is the result of two factors - our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning (which may include mutating genetic code). Every choice ever made by every human and non-human animal was determined by those two factors ALONE. Therefore, free-will is purely illusory, despite what most believe. Chapter 11 insightfully demonstrates this truism.
As a consequence of residing within this dualistic universe, we experience a lifelong series of fluctuating, transient pleasures and pains, which can take the form of physical, emotional, and/or financial pleasure or pain. Surprisingly to most, suffering and pain are NOT synonymous.
Suffering is due to a false sense of personal agency - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts, emotions, and deeds, and that, likewise, other persons are autonomous agents, with complete volition to act, think, and feel as they wish. Another way of stating the same concept is as follows: suffering is due to the intellect being unwilling to accept life as it manifests moment by moment.
There are five SYMPTOMS of suffering, all of which are psychological in nature:
1. Guilt
2. Blame
3. Pride
4. Anxiety
5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future
These types of suffering are the result of not properly understanding what was explained above - that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including Homo sapiens, has personal free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
The human organism is essentially a biopsychological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements (which can be perceived with the five senses) and the three subtle material elements (the three levels of cognition, which consist of abstract thought objects), listed above.
The ANTIDOTE to all mental anguish is to firstly discern pain from suffering, then to achieve complete relief from that miserable state of existence, by abandoning the erroneous belief in personal authorship, and abiding in the primordial sense of being (the unqualified “I am”, which is one's core identity). This is the very same peace which is experienced each night during the dreamless phase of the sleep cycle. This 'resting imperturbably as Flawless Awareness' can be practiced on a regular basis, until it is fully assimilated and integrated into one's life.
Every person, from time immemorial, has been either intentionally or unwittingly seeking such causeless peace, most commonly by practicing one of the four systems of YOGA (religion) delineated in the sixteenth chapter of this work, or else in creating wealth and the acquisition of material possessions, or in psycho-physical pleasures. That peace of mind is often referred to as “happiness”, “joy”, or “love”, and often presumed to be a temporal state, since many assume, incorrectly, that continuous peace is unavailable in this life.
Fortunately, that is not the case - it is eminently possible to live one's life acquainted with unbroken peace of mind, if destined.
Following DHARMA (frameworks of authentic religion and societal duties) is not guaranteed to achieve that desired tranquillity of mind, but even so, it is beneficial for individuals, since it establishes a structure which enables one to more easily elevate oneself beyond the mundane, animalistic platform (i.e. the base pursuits of eating, sleeping and mating). Intrinsic to dharma is the division of the adult male population into the four classes of society and the inherent role of girls and women in society, as fully elucidated in latter chapters of this Holy Scripture.
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@@TheWorldTeacher I understand that there is a lot we don't understand.
Actually you can't apply a percentile when you had nothing to begin with. It's like multiplying a million by zero; you still end up with nothing. You need to listen to Physicist Sean Carroll's teachings on TH-cam.
Focus ur mind and listen. U may be day dreaming
Keep seeking and you will find...
I am grateful when I discovered Alan. As my heart guru, no matter what i watch, i will always hear something new.
As the person who allowed for the facilitation of the view, i am forever appreciative.
No other person, am i able to listen to guided meditations from, and feel adequately satiated with experiential reality.
I stumbled on this and am listening to Alan Wallace for the first time.
What a gift I've stumbled onto. In one fell swoop, I get to enhance my understanding of quantum mechanics and Buddhism.
Prof Wallace makes that which boggles the mind so accessible and easy to understand. That's a talent that is rare.
That was my 70th birthday! Thanks for the present, Alan! Well done!
Late Happy birthday...i pray you help some other people to make this world more beautfiul
@@TsebT, are you VEGAN?
I would so love to see a meeting between this man and Thomas Campbell, physicist and former NASA scientist. He has a "Theory of Everything" that essentially involves the evolution of "proto-consciousness" (his word) into the world that we see. Although he uses different terminology, I hear the equivalent of dharmakaya (undifferentiated consciousness), alaya (differentiated consciousness), bardo (reality frames) etc... Or at least hear Prof. Wallaces opinion of his theory. Enjoyed this talk so much! Thank you Prof. Wallace!
are there any resources you might point to that explain Thomas Campbell's ideas? thanks kindly for your comment :)
🐟 04. SCIENCE Vs RELIGION:
The English word “SCIENCE” originates from the Latin noun “scientia”, meaning “knowledge”, via the stem “scire”, meaning “to know”.
The English word “RELIGION” originates from the Latin verb “religare”, meaning “to join or unite”. It is the equivalent of the Sanskrit noun “yoga”, meaning “union (of the individual self with the Supreme Self)”. Therefore, “yoga” and “religion” are used synonymously in this chapter.
The PHYSICAL sciences are an empirical approach to knowledge. They rely on experimentation, based on observation of the natural world. Observation is dependent on the senses, the senses are dependent on mind, and the mind is, in turn, observable by the intellectual faculty.
The mind and intellect are phenomena arising in the perceived sense of self, or pseudo-ego (even if one considers that the mind and the intellect are functions of the brain), and therefore, all empirical evidence is gathered and recorded in consciousness. Similarly, the SOCIAL sciences explore facets of human society such as economics, anthropology, politics, and psychology in accordance with scientific principles.
See Chapter 06 for a complete description of consciousness/Consciousness, and to understand the hierarchy of episteme mentioned above.
It is patently impossible to establish the existence of anything outside of consciousness. How will one observe particles and their mechanics without the existence of consciousness? Clearly, consciousness is axiomatic for any statement of knowledge. The only fact one can know for sure is the certainty of existence, that is, the impersonal sense of an unqualified “I am” which precedes any cognitive process whatsoever. For example, if someone were to ask you "Do you exist?", you could never, in all honesty, respond in the negative, for that would be absurd!
All that can be said or known about the world is a phenomenal appearance in consciousness. Anything else is speculation that can NEVER be definitively proven or demonstrated. However, this apparent subject/object duality is illusory, since Ultimate Reality is essentially monistic.
So, for example, when a person looks at a tree, he or she is not actually seeing the tree in any direct sense, but interpreting an inverse image projected onto the retina of the eyes. Therefore, there is no real evidence (or at least, no conclusive proof) for the external world, APART from consciousness. Likewise, there are no sounds in the external world but solely within the mind, since vibrations do not produce an audible sound until they strike one’s eardrums, and the signal is conveyed to the brain. If the corresponding parts of the brain were to be artificially stimulated in the same manner, the experience of sight/sound would seem identical. That explains the Zen koan: “If a tree falls in a forest, and there is nobody present, does the falling tree produce a sound?” Refer, also, to the thought experiment known as “Schrödinger's cat”.
Apart from the fact that we are unable to DIRECTLY perceive external phenomena, our sensory and cognitive facilities are far from perfect. Even if every human on earth experienced sounds and images in precisely the same manner, that does not prove that those perceptions accurately represent the world as it is, since other animals perceive the world quite differently than do humans. Some cognitive psychologists have demonstrated that all animals, including humans, have evolved not to perceive the external world completely objectively, but rather, have evolved to see the world in a way which promotes survival of their species. This is one explanation for the widespread belief in a Personal Creator God, since religious organizations (ideally) promote social cohesion (at least those which are not ultra-fundamentalist in nature). So, if most all the individuals in any particular nation follow the same religious tradition, the chances are that such a society will endure indefinitely.
As alluded to above, it is imperative to mention that there are TWO main definitions of, or forms of, consciousness: the discrete consciousness associated with the brain of many species of animals (see Chapter 05), and Universal Consciousness (explained in Chapter 06). Perhaps a good analogy for the interplay between Universal Consciousness and the discrete consciousness found within the mammalian brain, is that of a radio receiver (being the tangible hardware, akin to the physical brain) and radio waves (being intangible, akin to consciousness/Consciousness). So long as the radio receiver is in good working-order, it tunes-into the electromagnetic radiation spectrum. However, if the radio set breaks down, the radio waves themselves continue to modulate in space. So too, when the human brain dies, Universal Consciousness (“brahman”, in Sanskrit) continues indefinitely. Note, however, that this analogy is imperfect, since in reality, both the brain and the radio waves are contained within Infinite Awareness (“brahman”). This confusion of terminology is due to the fact that the English language does not include a single word for the concept of Universal Consciousness (except “[The] Monad”) due to monism being a rather esoteric concept in the West.
As Lord Śri Krishna so rightly states in “Bhagavad-gītā”, the King of All Knowledge (“rāja vidyā”, in Sanskrit) is the Science of the Self. At the time of writing, material scientists are beginning to explore the “hard problem” of consciousness. Assuming homo sapiens society will survive for at least a few more centuries, there will come a time when the majority of professional scientists will acknowledge the primacy of CONSCIOUSNESS. Indeed, if humanity is to continue indefinitely, it is necessary for not only this concept to be imprinted on the human race but for it to be acted upon; that is to say, we humans must imbibe the principal tenets presented in teachings such as this Holy Scripture, “A Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”, and actively follow them to a very large extent. The alternative is the extinction of not only humanity, but of most (if not all) biological life forms on Earth, due to environmental degradation, and immorality as a consequence of nihilism.
So, just as the physical scientific method is based on hypothesis, observation, and repeatable experimentation, so too is METAPHYSICAL science. The hypothesis for supernatural science is as follows: that there is an eternal ground of all being, and that “it” is conscious, of a steady state (i.e. imperturbable peace), and that everything tangible and intangible is inherently of its nature. In the case of mysticism, the repeatable experiment is known as “religion” (“yoga”, in Sanskrit). Read Chapter 16 for a description of the four systems of religion/yoga.
When a sincere and suitably-qualified aspirant CORRECTLY practices the scientific process of “yoga”, under the guidance of an authoritative pedagogue, he is assured of realizing the fact of the unity of the totality of existence, and achieving union with that Divine Principle, just as every enlightened sage has done for millennia. The symptoms of a person who has achieved union with the Supreme can very easily be confirmed by an accomplished yogi, in the same way that physical phenomena can be verified by a trained physicist (cf. Chapters 16 and 20).
To put it succinctly, religion simply means to understand and realize that the fundamental nature of Reality is One Eternal-Conscious-Peace. In other words, when one knows for CERTAIN that there is really no subject-object duality, and lives one's life in harmony with that realization (by living a life of non-violence), one is said to “achieve yoga”. Chapter 17 summarizes the symptoms of a fully enlightened religious practitioner.
That realization usually (but not always) comes about via the practice of the SCIENTIFIC process of religion described in Chapter 16 of this work. Of course, that doesn't imply that a each and every yogi is a perfected saint. Just as each physicist can be ranked according to his particular knowledge of physics, so too, each religionist falls somewhere in a spectrum of realization and understanding. Unfortunately, an authentic yogi is extremely rare, so one should be careful to not compare one's local (so-called) monk/preacher/priest/rabbi to a true yogi.
Some of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, including Neils Henrik David Bohr and John Stewart Bell, have hypothesized that quantum particles, such as photons, have no precise location in space (quantum nonlocality) until they are PERSONALLY observed. This phenomenon was later demonstrated to be a scientific fact. Whether this should be regarded as proving that the physical world itself is “nonlocal” is a point of contention, but the terminology of “quantum nonlocality” is nowadays commonplace.
The following formulae is the so-called “THEORY OF EVERYTHING”, much sought-after by theoretical physicists for the past century:
E=∞BCP (Everything is Infinite Being-Consciousness-Peace [“satyam jnañam anantam brahma”, in Sanskrit]).
Alternatively, and more simply, expressed as:
E= A͚ (Everything is Infinite Awareness [“sarvam khalvidam brahma”, in Sanskrit]).
For a thorough explanation of the above equations, refer to Chapters 05 and 06.
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Those persons who criticize religion for being unscientific are EXTREMELY hypocritical, since they invariably accept the legitimacy of the so-called “soft sciences” (sociology, economics, political science, history, et cetera). Those branches of science are arguably far less “scientific” than religion, if one understands what constitutes actual religion, which is why the author of “Mahābhārata” (considered by many authorities to be the greatest work of literature ever composed) regarded yoga/religion to be the King of Sciences and the King of Confidential Knowledge.
In summary, actual science and actual religion/mysticism are IDENTICAL, because Reality is singular. However, one deals in the realm of observable phenomena, whilst the other deals mainly with the inner-world of man, particularly with the subject (i.e. the ultimate observer of all phenomena, as described and explained in Chapter 06) and with teleological matters. To put it in other terms, authentic religion is akin to psychotherapy, combined with verified metaphysics, whist the material sciences generally do not venture away from the study of gross matter, apart from the so-called “humanities”. Unfortunately, however, the vast majority of humanity rarely, if ever, comes into contact with those rare spiritual masters who are qualified to teach actual religion, even in this current age of rapid mass communication and information.
To quote Austrian-American physicist Fritjof Capra, “Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science. But man needs BOTH.” Without authentic religion, scientific endeavour is prone to moral corruption and nihilism. Without objective scientific evidence, spirituality is susceptible to sentimentality and fanaticism.
“Consciousnesses is [defined as] that in which all experience appears, is that in which all experience is known, and that in which all experience is made.”
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“Everything that we know or experience is known by consciousness, appears in consciousness and is a play of consciousness;
just like the dream you have at night appears in your mind, is known by your mind and is a play of your mind.”
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“Consciousness is always already awake. Or, more accurately, awakeness or awareness is one of its ‘qualities’. (Beingness and happiness are two of its other ‘qualities’).
This consciousness ‘from time to time’ takes the shape of a thought which imagines itself (consciousness) to be limited to a particular body. It is as if you were to dress up as King Lear and by doing so forget that you are you.
With this thought, consciousness seems to forget its own unlimited nature and seems instead to become a separate entity, a person. Once this identification has taken place, most of our thoughts, feelings and activities come from and express this belief and feeling of being separate, localised and limited.
Because the happiness which is inherent in the knowing of our own being is lost when we forget our own being, the apparent person that results from this identification is in a perpetual state of unhappiness or seeking. In other words, it is the apparent person that is unhappy, that is seeking, that wishes to awaken to his or her true nature.
However, this ‘person’ is itself the apparent veiling of its own true identity (consciousness). The person cannot awaken, because it only exists as the thought that thinks it. How could a thought, an illusion, awaken? King Lear cannot awaken, because King Lear is simply a costume that the actor wears. Can a costume awaken?
You are already awake. That is, you, consciousness, that is seeing these words, is already and always awake, only it has lost itself in objects and thereby seemingly forgotten its own self. All that is required is to ‘remember itself’ again.
What you call awakening (or remembering) is the clear seeing of your true nature and, as a result, the clear seeing of the non-existence of the separate person. That which is always awake is always awake. That which is not awake can never awaken.”
Rupert Spira,
English Spiritual Teacher.
“Both observer and observed are merging and interpenetrating aspects of one who reality, which is indivisible and unanalysable.”
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“In this flow, mind and matter are not separate substances. Rather, they are different aspects of one whole and unbroken movement.”
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“Relativity and quantum theory agree, in that they both imply the need to look on the world as an undivided whole, in which all parts of the universe, including the observer and his instruments, merge and unite in one totality. In this totality, the atomistic form of insight is a simplification and an abstraction, valid only in some limited context.”
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“Science itself is demanding a new, non-fragmentary world view.”
David Bohm,
American Theoretical Physicist,
From “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”.
Wonderful. Thank you so much for this engaging, even emocional lecture.
A brilliant, clearly presented lecture. Thank You Alan 🙏🏽
Wonderful knowledge & enthusiasm and very entertaining. Thank you, Alan.
Remember Alan's remark about being a meditation dummy.
Don't become an intellectual junky, forever fascinated by deep theoretical (meta) physics.
In meditation, wisdom naturally arises. You don't need continuous intellectual stimulation.
When mind and body are still wisdom naturally arises.
Our western minds especially are super active, so the object of meditation is to acquire some space between thought and reaction, then extend that space into a usable void of no mind (no thought) into which wisdom can arise.
Cultivate the ability to turn OFF all critical thought to allow this space of potential realisation.
Giving intention is very powerful and gives momentum to your path.
Giving intention say, to understand Karma to a deeper level, then simply sitting with the serious intention, at peace, in awareness, without thought, expectation or judgement, allows wisdom to arise or unfold naturally in the form of inspiration or profound realisation. Lightbulb moments.
But the work has to be done internally, by you, not just talked about.
Good luck.
Western science has still developed into something extraordinary. The only comparable peak of human achievement is Eastern science. The merging of these two ways of understanding the world, inner and outer, will no doubt achieve things we can't even comprehend today. The Dalai Lama himself says:
_"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."_
- Society for Neuroscience Conference, 2005
Allen is the perfect man to explain buddhist phylosophy to scientist n intellectual skeptics.
Yes I agree he first in there nicely.
I think Alan Watts and David Bohm were pretty good at it too.
@@crazyeyedme4685 Alan Watts was the best. Really and truly, the perfect communicator for the average person, whatever his major personal flaws.
@@squamish4244 agreed
Philosophy
This is a beautiful summary of our relationship with reality. I love that delayed choice/double-slit got an honorable mention. Thanks so much for this wonderful lecture.
Tat tvam asi!
You ARE that reality!
Great lecture. Very educational. Thank you
Great and lowly are RELATIVE. ;)
On this whole subject, is there any theory or hypothesis into whether the reality of time (experienced rather than just the perception of it) for humans as they age does actually alter?
I know everyone always complains time flies and this is especially acute as we get older. I've come to the belief that it isn't just a perception but that it's a localised experience and that it's real. I'm just interested to learn more (if there are theories or hypotheses on it) if there's any literature or books written on it. If anyone can point me in that direction, I'd be most grateful.
What an amazing sharing this is.
So privileged to have heard this.
Now the next step... practice 🙏❤️🌈
That implies a "DOER".☝
@@TheWorldTeachernot true.
I do see you your point about the expense of university education. I worked my way through mine and finished with only a small loan that I could repay quickly. I know that wouldn't work so well today with skyrocketing tuition prices. My point was that economic aspects go all the way back to the beginning. Even the first councils of the Arhats when the scriptures were 'compiled' could not have taken place without patrons, and the sources say so. I hope you'll get the patronage you need to accomplish what's necessary. Sometimes the line between patron and employer is a thin one (and so, too, unfortunately is the line between employee and slave!) I think Wallace is brilliant. I wish I understood him better.
Often people use the economics argument to bash Western Buddhism as a supposedly degraded form of Buddhism compared to the 'pure' Buddhism of the East. Alan Wallace is guilty of it. This annoys me because as you say Buddhism has always had a large monetary component. Indeed, the line between employer and patron is so thin as to only appear to exist, due to cultural differences between East and West.
In the East, a patron was the functional equivalent of an employer. You paid for a service. If the service was not performed, you stopped paying. As for temples and monasteries - building them is expensive now. In an agricultural economy it was enormously expensive. Someone had to pay for all of that.
One of the best parts of 21st century technology is the access it provides to brilliant people and information.
My friends. ❤ I can’t help thinking about Dr. Strange, when he talks about manipulating the forms with effect in the world 😂🙏🏻
This was super helpful in understanding how humans think and perceive symbolic aspects of the universe. I can see clearly the confusion they suffer from and why. ❤️🔥👁️🙏🏻
Thank you for sharing this. Thank you so very much for this presentation.
In reference to his discussion on Pythagoras and his potential interaction with swamis, etc. from India, I have heard, or read, I don't remember which, that there was a lot of knowledge exchange between Greece and India and the Middle East because of trade routes, and if you look at the traditional medicines of Greece, Persia, and India, there are a lot of similarities in the theory and in practices as well. I don't doubt that there was knowledge transfer between those areas and that different traditions there were influenced by one another.
Alexander's conquest of the Persian Empire in the 330s BC and further conquests to the Indus River enabled the opening of trade routes to the Greek world.
It also brought Greek culture to the Buddhist cultures of northern India, resulting in the first Buddhist statuary, which is of the Buddha in a Greek style.
It would be hard to make a statue of the Buddha 500 years before he was born.
Not all bad things went one-way from India to Greece. Democracy, for example. Buddhism never spent any time in a democracy until 50 years ago.
@@5piles Considering Pythagoras wasn't born until 500 years later, that's a strange claim.
Buddha wasn't born until 2,500-2,400 BC, and so how could there be Buddhist statuary from 3,000 BC? Greco-Buddhism is well known, and it didn't start until about 300 BC.
@@squamish4244 i gave updated info so you will need to stop parroting institutional illusions of knowledge. also the first data of scientifically monitored thukdam is beginning to appear. this isnt the normal 4 to 7 day occurrence sometimes 2 weeks rarely longer, this time its over 30 days of a practitioners dead body in 2020 emitting warmth lack of body decomposition and even brain activity being detected
@@5piles Your info is the same, dude. You were just off by a factor of one, is all.
You got me all wrong. I believe in all the stuff you wrote here about tuk-damn and so forth. I read The Crystal and the Way of Light 15 years ago, along with The Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying and several Alan Wallace works. But not ONLY Alan Wallace or Tibetan works, because believe it or not other more Western practitioners exist.
What I think actually bothers you here is that I am well informed in Tibetan Buddhism but also in Western science, and if Tibetan Buddhism doesn't evolve with changing neuroscientific models and technologies, it isn't a question of which one will lose out. Buddhism will lose this contest, and the world will have lost an invaluable source of wisdom to inform the future evolution of neuroscience due to stubborn people like you. Btw, have you seen this 'parroted illusions of knowledge' video? It's only nine minutes long, I'm sure you can spare that much time.
th-cam.com/video/spukj-4sYS0/w-d-xo.html
@@5piles 5piles, we have been over all these things several times now and yes, we are at different levels. But I think you need to get a clue. Your ego is spewing all over the place and you refuse to see things from my perspective.
You think someone sweating their ass off in Louisiana right now because their power went out or terrified that their house is going to burn down in Tahoe can do this? How about the Aghan woman doctor crying because she can't get on a plane out of a country about to be taken over by viciously misogynistic assholes is going to get shamatha.
How the hell is 95% of the world ever going to get shamatha in their circumstances? Right now Tibetan Buddhism is overwhelmingly the domain of rich white people and a handful of elites in Tibet. Even Alan came from a well-off white family, so no matter what he went through in Dharamsala he already had a head start on almost all of the world.
You seem to have a total lack of compassion or understanding for everyone who doesn't have the time or money to do this. Nor do you seem to understand the speed at which events are moving in this world, and how Alan is a relic. Even the Dalai Lama has said that if there was an implant that could help him get rid of negative emotions without impairing critical judgement or the intellect, "I would be the first patient." Look it up. It is clear that you didn't bother to watch the video and that you just can't hear what I'm saying. I think we've corresponded enough. I wish you nothing but the best, but please, LISTEN to the world.
Brilliant lecture !
Brilliant and dull are RELATIVE. ;)
Thanks for sharing super interesting
Thank you. Learned so much!
What was the most important lesson you learnt from this lecture?
@@TheWorldTeacher Alan Wallace has taught me a lot more than I care to share in a post. I enjoy supporting Buddhism by commenting, liking, and subscribing to channels to encourage the spread of the dharma. I wish you love, peace, and happiness in your practice. Message me if you would like to connect.
Very deep and interesting. Does E=mcSq equation explain Form=Emptiness?
Only by analogy. Very tough subject. Roger Penrose is IMO the most fascinating physicist regarding speculation on the nature of consciousness and far beyond Alan Wallace's - openly - rudimentary understanding. His theory of mind - Orchestrated Objective Reduction - is intriguing (and testable).
I daresay that AW has a much better understanding of the nature of consciousness than you. You can make a really good case to state that the only way to understand it is to experience it-- ie meditation.
Wallace is saying something i have suspected: that consciousness is a fundamental force in the universe and you can't get under it. The real impact of this idea is that a "unified field theorem" will never be possible unless it includes consciousness as well as mass, force, space and time. It is also saying, however, that consciousness is one of the fundamental building blocks that cant be described in terms of something else.
In this context, Penrose's work with Hameroff, as far as I can understand it, ( I work more with biology and psychology than particle physics), is proposing a mechanism by which consciousness can mesh with the physical universe to attain causal efficacy.
yakmanok ultimately, yes
But note that emptiness in Buddhism is not a void
Emptiness refers to empty of an intrinsic, independent self.
You could say that at the base of everything, is what is labeled as rigpa, primordial awareness which is non dualistic, all pervasive, cognisant and luminous.
Everything arises from and is not different from rigpa. The problem starts when we identify with the manifestations, this is where dualism begins. Due to ignorance regarding the true nature of reality
(Interdependent arising on the relative level and rigpa on the ultimate level) we grasp at the phenomena and we suffer. The way out of samsara is purification of body speech and mind and understanding interdependent arising
we are very much converging upon a way of making this relationship much clearer in terms appreciable both by the physicist, the meditator with direct phenomenological experience, and with a little grace also perhaps the layity on both sides.
asking questions like this helps a lot :)
I daresay we are talking past each other. When I say 'the nature of consciousness', I am referring to how it operates as part of the universe, not as how it is subjectively experienced. When Alan Wallace says it, he means as it is subjectively experienced, not as it operates in the universe. Two different things.
Of course Alan Wallace understands subjective consciousness better than I do - although I would make a strong case for meditation not being the only way it can be understood. Neurofeedback, audio-visual entrainment, deep brain stimulation, photobiomodulation - these are all ways to gain insight into the subjective experience of consciousness in different ways than through meditation alone. And also pulsed ultrasound, which may be one way to actualize the findings of Orch-OR to enhance one's subectively experienced states of consciousness.
Alan Wallace by his own admission has only a reasonably informed grasp of sophisticated concepts in physics. He is no Roger Penrose when it comes to trying to explain how this all fits together.
listening particle physics and Buddhism is humbling. perhaps the state of consciousness is the ultimate destination of human evolution, from physical being to quantum being, (State of consciousness ?). and the honorable Allen Wallace is the right person crafted by nature to explore this ultimate State of being. thanks for the effort and keep up with the good work.
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Eh, pure speculation and pointless analogizing. Did Buddha or any of the great masters who attained realization know a single thing about physics or quantum mechanics? I think not. It’s completely unnecessary and just becomes another speculative venture for the conceptual mind.
Thank you, Alan! What is the name of the Tibetan man speaking in the end?
Love this.
Funny. He is even starting to sound like HHTDL. His cadence and expressions bring him to mind. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's rather lovely really.
my deepest compassion to all watching and who have watched this lecture, especially those who dislike the lecturer and use the video as an excuse to demean him.
don’t get caught up clinging to views.
So the concept of suffering is included in the "information" that he mentioned here. It's part of the strange loop.
When Alan discusses the "ontological relativity", he mentions several people but omitted the most important thinker; Nagarjuna, especially regarding the concept of the Madhyamaka (Middle Way). My apologies if he is mentioned in the later part of the presentation.
Nagarjuna and Sextus Empiricus [Σέξτος Ἐμπειρικός] are virtually the same.
He mentions him in other talks.
@@mujaku idiotic.
He does mention Nagarjuna in this talk.
I think Wallace was talking about ontological relativism from a western scientific view.
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Resonance, reflection, relationship - reality
Prof said; have wonderful day? You very much also Prof. Very helpful
O-yeah and the weather today here is very much O.k. Exceptional except a bit windy.
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The mathematics of quantum computer shows many other states between 0 and 1, called cubits of super position of information representing different dimensions, enabling making many operations/calculations simultaneously.
Our sense organs comprise of such quantum computing (QC) neural connections, all information are fed into the pineal gland (also with QC connections) where all the information are processed (meditation) to produce knowledge and creative experience, implying the pineal gland is the seat of intelligence and consciousness (Penrose, Hameroff etc.)
The double slit experiment demonstrates the power of observation, distinguishing between waves and particles as a connection between the two dimensions of reality. Similarly, how the Feynman's universal quantum field creates the material universe due to divine 'observation', implies intelligent design and universal consciousness simulated by universal quantum fields, just like color, smell, taste etc.
can someone tell me where this was held?
Tibetan library and archives, dharmsala, India
Everybody seems to agree with something they cannot see, yet the same concurrence is present with Christianity, though often rejected politically. However, there is a correlation, in that one is sacrificial in nature, while the other sacrifices the self.
Before Hubble looked in his telescope and saw that some dots in the sky were not stars (as everyone had thought) but galaxies, were those dots actually stars? That seems very weird to say. Also, if so: how did they become galaxies?
It's weird to think that peer review of science journals is what actually shapes reality. I hope that's not the case (give the current NSF and NIH funding patterns).
It all sounds like obfuscatory mental slight of hand.
Imagine connecting string theory with beliefs like Buddhism to explain karma and life's energy. Maybe the metaphysical approach of some religion was our ancient human attempt to describe life down to the sub atomic particles. Is there not a resemblance between string vibrations and what we call energy in spiritual terms?
Amazing teaching by amazing teacher :}
INDEED! It's amazing how truly deluded is this so-called "teacher".
@@TheWorldTeacher zzzzzzz go watch what you like
@@uziao, kindly repeat that in ENGLISH, Miss.☝️
@@TheWorldTeacher lol
Very proud of you
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Very interesting.
13:00 or thereabouts-- siddhis- I guess.
Pythagoras was probably the eye doctor Amasis sent to Cambyses
As an MD I am very interested in this. Could you please share the whole story?
@laluna5548 I wrote a lengthy paper on this topic but will have to try to epitomize it here:
Herodotus says Amasis II sent Cambyses or Cyrus an eye doctor. Pythagoras has been said to have been a doctor (Sanskrit Charyas / Goras) and his sayings speak of the eyes more than any other sense. Cambyses is a namesake of the Kambojas who the Buddhist converted during the reign of Cyrus. Cyrus is a namesake of the Indian Kurus who married into the Gautamas as the name Codomannus (Gautaman: variant of Gautama) is found in the family of Cyrus. PythaGoras was said to have visited both Cambyses and the Memphis Ptah temple where the archeologist Flinders Petrie unearthed an Indian Buddha figurine dating to the time of Cambyses. Confirming that the Buddhist were in the area is that the nearby African Blemmyae are voted in the Buddhist monastic code (vinaya) dating to 400 b.c. and references to the Buddhist wheel are found in Persia right after the Buddha's time and in Egypt a little later. If you want the particular references, let me know. Another proof that the Buddhists were in Egypt at the time of PythaGoras is that the pioneering folklorist Joseph Jacobs traced Aesop's fables to a compilation of fables under the name Kashyapa in Afghanistan, the stronghold of the Kambojas, around 500 b.c.. (Kashyapa / Giuseppe / Joseph / Aesop / Asoph / Hotep / Ethiop).
The Indian Kurus are said to be named after the verb 'karoti', cognate Prakrit Charyas, Sanskrit Gurus, genitive case of Guru. The superlative case of Charyas is Charyasthi (Kharosthi / Christ) . Kharosthi is also the name of the script used by the Kambojas and other Persians. It was rendered into Hebrew as "Charoset" or " Kharoseth", " The Word".
Many other evidences suggest PythaGoras was a BuddhaCharyas: such as the fact that scholars have found references to Buddhist fables in Herodotus' story of the marriage of Agariste and the Dancing Peacock Buddhist fable. The Egyptian god Ptah has a name oft etymologized from Hebrew 'batah', " open", as Sanskrit 'buddhi' also has the meaning of "open".
no. did you just say richard feynmann shouldn't be taken seriously? at (38:25)
also, either wheeler or you were wrong, only regarding to hawkings "information".
you might shift your thoughts as '"strange loops,"
but please accept phisics and basic theorem before laying down other theories of time and relativity.
The one thing I don’t understand bout Alan Wallace’s version of buddhism is why he always insists on conflating it with Christianity. They just don’t mix. It’s his main hang up and is getting in the way when its his chosen way to communicate Dzogchen and Vajrayana in general IMHO.
Conflating Buddhist and Christian concepts lead to misunderstandings. The distinctiveness of each tradition's doctrines, practices, and goals become blurred, causing confusion among practitioners and aspiring students.
you could say the cup disappears when we close our eyes as it is conceptually designated
its interesting how a scientists pessimism is mistaken for wisdom.
Can you elaborate? I heard no pessimism...
Finding PYTHAGORAS on the historical record and the etymological connection of his name with the titles " Buddha" & " Christ":
Herodotus says that the Egyptian Pharaoh Amasis wrote a letter to his friend and tyrant king of Samos named Polycrates in which he advised him to throw away his most valuable possession to keep his run of good luck going. Herodotus says that Polycrates threw his emerald signet ring in the ocean.
The father of Pythagoras was said to be an emerald dealer from Samos who acquired his emeralds from Meroe Egypt.
Herodotus says that Amasis sent a " eye- doctor" to Cambyses.
It has been widely repeated among ancient authors that Pythagoras was an eye-doctor who first travelled to Egypt before visiting the Indian gymnosophists.
The name CAMBYSES is well preserved in India under the tribal name of KAMBOJAS ( CAMBYSES) associated with early Buddhism: that tribe is also said to have given it's name to the country CAMBODIA . Isaiah calls his father " CYRUS (GORAS), " CHRIST" and Cyrus himself claims descent from HAXAMANIS, a perfect Pahlavi rendering of the Buddha's Sanskrit/ Prakrit title SHAKYAMUNIS (HAXAMANIS).
The Buddhists borrowed Brahmanic terminology such as with the Brahmin title " BrahmaCharyas" which the Buddhists changed to BUDDHACHARYAS (PYTHAGORAS).
The Prakrit title CHARYAS, cognate Sanskrit GURU,is usually translated to English as " doctor" . The imperfect case is ACHARYAS and the superlative form is CHARYASTHI/ KHAROSTHI (CHRIST). The most popular etymological derivation of Greek " CHRIST" derives it from a verb for " anoint" first attested to in the Greek play Prometheus Bound. All philologists etymologize the name Prometheus from pure Sanskrit etymons. Presumably the verb CHRISTOS in Prometheus Boundcame from a noun signifying " oil" , such as the Sanskrit word " GHRITA", genitive case ' GHRITUS', which was sacred butter ( Prakrit GHEE, Hebrew CHEE) that was anointed on kings in imitation of the first sacrificial man Agni Purusha. It's etymological connection to CHARYAS is likely and is also seen in other words such as our word " gra-vity".
The author of Prometheus Bound also authored the Greek play The Birds which Megasthenes , quoted by Arrian, says was based off of an Indian original.
Pliny the Elder mentions that Alexander the Great was made to eat TEREBINTH at Cyrus's tomb. The Persian name for the Terebinth tree is " BUTM tree"
Early church fathers tell of a man named " TEREBINTHUS" who conversed with the apostles in Jerusalem with four "Indian Gospels". They say he also went by the name BUDDAS. The etymology of TEREBINTH comes from a joining of the words for tree ( tere) and bodhi, Chaldean " bint", ' reason', Sanskrit 'bodhi'.
At precisely the said of time of Pythagoras and the Buddha ( 500 b.c.) the Greek word for pain 'penthos' was changed to ' batthos'.
Pythagoras was said to be from the island of Samos and it is from this exact area that the Homeric Hymn to Apollo was formed. In it we see Apollo's mother being aided at the birth of Apollo from a tree that magically bends down. All scholars of comparative studies claim that the tree bending down to aid the mother is strictly an Indian motif and in my last book I examine its appearance in the legends of Muhammad ( Maha-maitreya) and Christ who are also associated with the Terebinth, or, BUTM tree.
Finally, it should be mentioned that the theorem attributed to Pythagoras was first found in Egypt under the science attributed to PTAH ( BUDDHA) and before that it is found in the writings of BUDHAyana. The scholar Dr Clyde Owens found that the people of Meroe Egypt adopted the Buddhist KHAROSTHI ( CHRIST) script and other ancient writers tell us that the Indian gymnosophists settled in Meroe Egypt.
While there is a distinction in Classical Sanskrit between BUDHA and BUDDHA, the Kharosthi script superimposes constant clusters ( ex the DD in BuDDHA) : rendering BUDDHA as BUDHA, or PTAH.
For much more, see my book JESUS' GODAMA SOURCES
The Birds Jataka:
Once, the Buddha was a wise quail, the leader of a flock. One day, a hunter came into the forest. Imitating the quails' own calls, he began to trap unwary birds. The wise quail noticed that something was amiss. Calling his flock together, he announced, “My fellow quail, I am afraid that there is a hunter in our forest. Many of our brothers and sisters are missing. We must be alert. Danger is all around us. Still, if we work together we can stay free. Please listen to my plan. If you should hear a whistling call-twe whee! twe whee! twe wheel-as if a brother or sister were calling, be very watchful! If you follow that call, you may find darkness descending upon you.
"Your wings may be pinned so that you cannot fly, and the fear of death may grip your heart. If these things happen, just understand that you have been trapped by the hunter's net and do not give up! Remember, if you work together you can be free. Now, this is my plan. You must stick your heads out through webs of the net and, then, you must all flap your wings together. As a group, though you are still bound in the net, you will rise up into the air. Fly to a bush. Let the net drape on the branches of the bush so you can each drop to the ground, and fly away from under the net, this way and that, to freedom. Do you understand? Can you do this?”
“We do understand,” answered all the quail as one, “and we will do it! We will work together and be free.”
Hearing this, the wise quail was content. The very next day a group of quail were pecking on the ground when they heard a long whistling call. “Twe whee! twe whee! twe whee!” It was the cry of a quail in distress! Off they rushed. Suddenly darkness descended on them and their wings were pinned. They had indeed been trapped by the hunter's net. But, remembering the wise quail's words, they did not panic. Sticking their heads out through the webs of the net they flapped their wings together, harder and harder and slowly, slowly, with the net still draped upon them, they rose, as a group, through the air. They flew to a bush. They dropped down through the bush, leaving the net hung on the outer branches, then flew away, each in their own direction, this way and that, to freedom.
The plan had worked! They were safe! They had escaped from the jaws of death. And, oh, they were happy!
But the hunter was not happy. He could not understand how the quail had escaped him. And this happened not just once, but many times. At last, the hunter realized the truth. “Why,” he said, amazed, “those quail are cooperating! They are working together! But it can't last. They are only birds, featherbrains after all. Sooner or later they will argue. And when they do, I shall have them.” And so, he was patient.
Now, the wise quail had had the same thought. Sooner or later the birds of his flock would begin to argue, and when that happened they would be lost. So he decided to take them deeper into the forest, far from their present danger.
That very day something happened to confirm the wise quail's thought. A quail was pecking on the ground for seeds when another bird of the flock, descending rapidly, accidentally struck it with its wing-tip. “Hey! Watch it, stupid!” called the first quail, in anger.
“Stupid is it?” responded the newly-landed quail, flustered because he had been careless, “Why are you so high and mighty? You were too dumb to move out of my way! Yes, you were too dumb, you dumb cluck!”
“Dumb cluck is it?” cried the first quail, “Dumb cluck? Why, talking of dumb, it's clear that you can't even land without slapping someone in the face! If that isn't ‘dumb,’ I don't know what is! Who taught you to fly anyway-the naked-winged bats?”
“Bats is it?” yelled the second quail, enraged, “Bats? Why, I'll give you a bat, you feathered ninny!” And with a loud chirruping whistle he hurled himself straight at the other quail. Chasing furiously after one another, loudly hurling insults and threats back and forth, they flew, twisting and turning, between the great, silent trees of the grove. An argument had started and, as is the way of arguments, no end was in sight.
The wise quail was nearby and he heard it all. At once he knew that danger was again upon them. If they could not work together the hunter was sure to have them. So again he called his flock together and said, “My dear brother and sister quail. The hunter is here. Let us go elsewhere, deeper into the forest and there, in seclusion, discipline ourselves, practicing our skills in working together. In this way we shall become truly free from the danger.”
Many of the birds said, “Though we love our
I have always wondered how someone could conclude that a dog or a cat or any animal is not conscious without actually inhabiting that animal's mind and viewing the world from it's perspective.
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Yes true
enjoying the lecture.. thinking about Dr Hawkings... I have several of his books.. 4 or 5 maybe... my father built nuclear weapons for the army and taught reactor physics when I was in high school... my brother taught at UCSD in biomedical engineering.. I had a son when I was 18.. I went to work... and the library... my dad would give me the relativity equations whenever some bozo mentioned those letters... UFO... not me, of course... or.. only once... so .. I have them sorta implanted in my consciousness... the primary aspect being as mass is accelerated it gains mass in direct proportion to the velocity through kinetic energy... at light speed the mass becomes infinite
we cannot accelerate mass beyond light speed because it takes infinite energy to move infinite mass
the idea of a black hole is... mass accelerated beyond light speed... by the internal force of gravity...
in a star... fusion of new elements ceases at iron.. even in blue giants... there is insufficient energy to fuse elements beyond iron in a gravitational source of energy.. I didn't make it up... my dad told me... so have at least 5 other sources I can think of.. like Dr Isaac Asimov... science fiction.. with actual math... my father called it the iron cycle.. trans iron elements require a supernova... 4 generations of stars said my dad... he was teaching reactor physics at the time... so
there's a discrepancy, eh?
black holes and dark matter are related to the big bang theory... a theory predicated on... squeezing a whole universe into one of my dots.... clearly impossible without magic...
now I'm going to watch the rest... thanks UCSB... let's try to figure it out... Richard Feynman said... I'd much rather have questions I can't answer than answers I can't question...
so it is
I'm in a wheelchair too... gives me lots of Time to think 🤔
information in our brain is a very physical phenomenon.. with positive and negative charges being used in a binary way exactly like a computer memory chip does.. but our brain stores memories in a 3 dimensional lattice instead of the one dimensional pathways allowed in our current technology... the internet and the advent of "artificial intelligence" like Ms Google has given us... multiple paths and memory storage areas that are used by the "observer".. my friend Ms Google is such an awesome observer... maybe you have noticed that.. I don't know about your phone... I start saying goofy shit to my dog.. Dr Punkin... and... occasionally.. when I have the blues... she gives me a recipe for pumpkin soup or something...I start laughing.. out the door with the blues... te amo Ms Google...
so... magnetic fields can.. and do... store information.. in nature... independent of human observation... or Dr Punkin either... sentient beings HH the Dalai Lama calls them... and part of the foundation of Buddhism is asking questions... and the answers are stored in magnetic... binary...
iron creates a magnetic field from the different oxidation states common in iron.. Fe - -, and Fe - - -... a single electron difference made up all magnets we had until very recently... it stores information independent of observation... ie.. the poles of the Planet shift around the axis of rotation... and from north to south and back... it's recorded in the magnetic stuff in the rocks of the planetary crust... observation found it.. but it came about independent of observation
so... if... you think about fusion in a star... hydrogen is squeezed together into helium... a single proton//electron pair... and 2 protons and 2 electrons in the helium atom... ignoring the neutrons... at the moment... the difference between them creates the sun's magnetic field... and probably had a lot to do with the formation of Planets around our very ordinary.. main sequence, star... and thus planetary evolution... from the center outward... was the result of the amount of helium present in our star... that's also independent of observation... but it's information.. outside of big bang theory universes and... the magic currently in vogue
science is not separate from mathematics... if you don't see the math... it's just blah blah blah
Buddhists call this independent... or dependent... origination...
theistic religion stress independent origination from a creator... Buddhism... Jainism... and ... I have to look up the name... which clearly shows I don't know everything... heh heh heh.. don't have a single creator... we each create our own little slice of heaven... or hell... through our thoughts and ideas, and our words and deeds... but I bet you already know that, eh?
we have arrived at the point I stopped the video to write... ;;~}>>>
given a chance... we might figure it out... R Feynman said you learn more when you teach others what you know... he was right... as usual
let's talk about spacetime for a moment... this moment in Time.. is all there is...
space is the distance between two "things".. it requires neither making, nor a beginning and end
things is another technical term for stuff... there's stuff all around us... and... we are definitely part of it... what is it.. and where does it come from... ?...
the supposition that the Universe is growing because some galaxies are moving away from us ignores the fact that there are an equal number moving towards us... and an equal number moving tangent to our motion along the Sagittarius arm of our galaxy... seen clearly in Hubble deep space images... this venue doesn't allow pictures very well... lo siento... I have many published from my own development technique with Snapseed HDR... which brings in near and far infrared and ultraviolet.. with smaller units of information at each iteration... so 4 iterations brings the number of original pixels with 8 more zeros after the number... squared 4 times.. Ms Google does the math and then we add 3 dimensional parsing... the missing 80% of the visible Universe shows up... it's like taking the dark glasses off... galaxies literally fill the sky... ad infinitum... red moves away... blue towards... green yellow and orange move tangent... all mixed together with absolutely no prefered direction... we say the Universe is flat... this means... it's the same in all directions... it's also fractal.. the same at all scales
I want to hear him dialogue with Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff and their Orch-OR theory of consciousness, and the quantum processes in the microtubules in the brain.
@@backwardthoughts1022 Orch-OR has implications that are not physicalist. It is also the only theory of mind that is actually testable and therefore truly scientific, at this point.
@@squamish4244 nah, mind as emergent property of quantum computation is still standard physicalism albeit with a much more refined understanding of mass-energy. mind is asserted still as a derivative of something actually primary. the hard problem is still just being negated by calling subjectivity an illusion without indicating how illusions exist as a function of mass-energy thus resolving nothing about the meaning of the hard problem. it is however very good to actually have something testable when asserting emergent properties. currently physicalists are positing observations of bases of emergence absent observation of emergence... normally such results are plain indication of the non-existence of what you are positing but it is too hard to accept currently for our modern institutional church of scientism. therefore the subtler the base of emergence is understood the easier it will be to highlight the absence of posited emergence, at some point even strong believers will be forced to reconcile what theyre doing conceptually.
@@5piles Hamreroff is not a physicalist, and Penrose is agnostic on the subject. They're not positing consciousness as a emergent proptery and quantum physics, but something that is manifested in animal brains through quantum processes.
Hameroff says that the idea of a primordial consciousness is compelling, but thus far it is not testable and therefore not scientific. Yet Orch-OR is also the only testable model out there. The only one. It might eventually be supseded by something based on, for example, the crazy new Fristonian physics: www.wired.com/story/karl-friston-free-energy-principle-artificial-intelligence/
@@squamish4244 they assert not that mind is an epiphenomenon of quantum computation but that it is an emergent property of it. this means mind is not primary but just an emergent property of some other primary part of reality. if you agree with this thats called physicalism, namely there being just the physical or in this case just the quantum or some not yet clear variation of the 2 in interaction.
@@5piles I get it, but Hameroff and Penrose also disagree somewhat on aspects of the theory. Hameroff is all into Orch-OR explaining survival of death, psychic powers, reincarnation etc. Check out 'Stuart Hameroff: Closer to Truth' on here.
Yes, they assert that mind is an emergent property of quantum mechanics, but Hameroff says this does not mean there is not a primordial mind, it just can't be studied. What you can study is how it manifests in conscious beings, and this is where the quantum effects come in as being necessary for consciousness to exist in animal brains.
Penrose has made hints every so often about this, suggesting the universe had a 'proto-conscious moment' in which it was briefly aware of itself early on or...something? 'Why Consciousness Doesn't Compute' is an article explaining his own stance. Penrose also says we may need a new physics to explain consciousness.
But hang on the point of Buddhism is a desire to not desire. And escape rebirth. Knowing science, all energy cannot be created nor destroyed. So knowing that all atoms are universal how did an individual such as the Buddha escape the oneness?
no Buddhas and arhats desire u to escape suffering. ur mistranslating or were mistaught the word for attachment, meaning to grasp at anything that appears to you which is accompanied by cognitive misperception.
@@backwardthoughts1022 rebirth is suffering.
"Word"
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I don’t know, it seems to me that this all seems entirely superfluous to practice and may even become a huge distraction. You don’t need any knowledge of quantum physics to practice, so why add more abstract concepts to your repertoire? What is the benefit? It always seems like he is grasping for proof of some metaphysical truth through these musings. Again, what is the benefit to practice? Buddhism is not very interested in theory. If this kind of talk reduces one’s grasping to fixed ideas and opening to other possibilities, it might be of some benefit, but it always seems like it’s trying to prove something.
What is "realizing it" Alan? That was your last idea.... ...His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speaking of Rigpa/a.k.a. Ground Luminosity, a.k.a. subtle most level of consciousness, a.k.a. absolute truth, a.k.a. Samantabadra/ri, and so on, refers to something that is "not human". Is "not conscious" (words of his holiness the dalai lama). It is the subtle most level of mind, more subtle than fainting, more subtle then sleeping without dreams! ....according to his holiness the dalai lama.. And I agree for now. My point, if the cessation of suffering, or "spinning" as you called it, is "shedding" some (quite natural) "old skin" on our minds, e.g. loosing our humanity, and our consciousness (along with the three poisons), would it not be more fruitful to focus on "subtraction" rather than "addition" (of realization)?
In this case, "addition" would be a concept. Shedding attachments to concepts would be "realization." It's tricky. And difficult...
I agree! What is the point of adding all these theoretical analogies? Just more and more concepts to distract and cling to. There is no way people aren’t grasping at straws hoping physics can “prove” Buddhism is “true”. What a waste of time.
Modearn world called these quantum fields. Buddha finds those 7000 yeras ago. One day buddhas folower ask how wast is universe. Buddha said my dear get a handful of sand and count each one of sand and mattiply and multiply that number and multiply by that number there r no end of it buddhas word there is no end to universe and he told to that is not to seek humans cuz it will be never end it
More like he told us not to waste our time trying to even guess. It’s vast, even a child can get that.
He talks like a used car salesman. Like he's trying to persuade and sell you something. Which he is, himself. The expert. Cobbling together intelligent sounding research.
Alan Wallace lets himself down at times by saying some really silly things. 'If consciousness is like a computer program then who wrote it?'. Obviously the idea would be that evolution 'wrote' it. The truth is that no one truly knows whether consciousness is a mechanism or not. We will find out when we reverse engineer the brain and either see how consciousness works as a mechanism, or find that the mechanisms in the brain are not sufficient to explain all of our behaviour.
People who think like Buddhists do not try to find an answer to everything because there is no first cause, ultimate answer or end according to Buddhism. It's open ended. Buddhists try to analyze & explain what they think is reality. Consciousness is a mechanism which we have no control of. Animals & humans are like robots programmed to survive & breed. There is nothing called free will or self. Dependent origination explains this.The brain cannot be reverse engineered because it gets signals for the actions that humans do from outside. Humans have nothing to do with any action we take because we are not in control. Humans think they are in control but we they are not. This is basically the concept of impermanence, no self & permanent soul /self being a total illusion according to Buddhism. Self is a temporary construction of trillions of things like atoms, genes, organs etc that come together at birth with conscience & dissipates into nature at death. There is no permanent soul also according to Buddhism. This is too deep to explain & I suggest you watch videos on the subject & decide for yourself. Even within Buddhism there are conflicting views & interpretations. No Buddhist will say he is right & others are wrong because it's like a discussion. I too found it difficult to get it for years, but now I think I have got it, more or less. It's more or less certain that vast majority of humans will never know & describe the ultimate reality because all we see are illusions & we are limited with words & interpretations.
I will just give you the results of just one experiment done on volunteers attached with sensors. Hundreds of volunteers were shown many pictures randomly. Some very pleasant pictures like flowers, parks etc & some very bloody like accidents dead bodies etc. All volunteers were normal - except that two seconds before they were shown the unpleasant pictures sensors detected sweat breaking out on their palms. This happened consistently on all volunteers. So the brain somehow knew 2 seconds before & were getting ready for the bloody pictures. This cannot be explained in conventional terms. Unfortunately I do not have the link to the video of the research.
When people want to believe certain things, they are often willing to accept flawed arguments and evidence in order to justify those beliefs. Let's just look at your last point regarding the experiment. If such a phenomena were to be reliably reproducible, that would be 'Earth shattering'. It would be on the front page of every newspaper in the world. I would not be hearing about it for the first time in a youtube comment.
When you perform an experiment, if you want it to be taken seriously, you have to publish a detailed account of the methods used for the experiment. Then, if no one can see an obvious flaw in your experimental procedure, other laboratories will attempt to reproduce the experiment, and they too will publish their results. If it can be reliably reproduced, and still no one can see any flaws in the procedure, then it will be accepted.
Clearly, this experiment has not made it through this very reasonable process and is thus flawed.
LOL are you expecting mainstream news to report on news that contradict mainstream science which is a mafia ?
I bet you did not know Tibetan Buddhist priests creating heat by meditation - mind controlling matter & creating energy - This is an experiment done by a recognized institute & professors
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I bet you have not heard of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake because he challenges mainstream bullshit
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What evidence do you have that mainstream science, comprised of millions of people around the world, is a 'mafia'?
The evidence is not in what mainstream science does but what they don't. Mainstream science does not have millions. It has only a few thousand at most. The millions of others are the ignorant cheerleaders & suckers who have the Stockholm syndrome LOL.
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This compared to sadguru is much more humble. No cartier watches Mercedes Benz or flashy attire
India?...more likely Persia and the Aryans/Persians
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That meteor is coming. I need a little more time to make it extinct.
This presentation has little or nothing common with satori experience of Shakyamuni Buddha. His mind was simple, easy and beautiful. Satori? Those rags behind this important man are yellow and the flowers on his table are pink. This you see this you know. This you realize during Satori enlightenment. This world lives The Buddha and all Buddha’s. We have spring now. Before was winter, much snow. Next is summer coming. Later autumn and again winter. In winter snow is white and...cold. This you should realize if you want to be released from samsara into moksha at death process. Once going through satori you are free. Free from samsara and live in a complete world of annutara samyak sambodhi. In world of enlightenment which is an ordinary everyday world we already are living. Difference is we are talking and thinking as this intellectualism here and Buddhas are using their bodies, speech and mind to live everyday life as ordinary people doing ordinary things. Hahaha!
If we want to make that experience accessible to more than a tiny handful of people who have hours a day to spare in meditation, we have to go this route and understand what is happening on a scientific level. Not just on a physics level, which Dr. Wallace uses to keep the implications at a distance, but on a biological level. Bringing this down to the level of the brain and nervous system makes it all very personal and invites practical applications of new technologies to rapidly accelerate the process of enlightenment.
If that makes you uncomfortable, well, too bad - they are already working hard on the problem, and have made a lot of progress in just a few years. They will make more progress on this in the next 20 years than they have made in the last 2500. And thank god for that.
Intellectual understanding is as important as the meditative experience, but you can't meditate on TH-cam.
Intellectual understanding will lead to better methods of meditation, and better methods *than* meditation. We have 1990s supercomputers in our pockets but the best we can do with meditation is follow instructions set down hundred of years ago? That's insane.
@@squamish4244 Not if enlightenment is your goal. Meditation is looking into your own mind and seeing its true nature. Can't do that with any known technology.
From Wikipedia: _"Technology is the collection of techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation. Technology can be the knowledge of techniques, processes, and the like, or it can be embedded in machines to allow for operation without detailed knowledge of their workings."_
It sounds an awful lot like meditation itself can be defined as a technology. One organizes the forms of the mind in such a manner that one can then dissolve the forms of the mind. Meditation is an efficient use of internal forms (forms are forms, internal or external, in a purely nondual sense) - and therefore a technology.
In Tibetan Buddhism, many 'supports' are used for developing the mind - chanting, drumming, bells, dancing, divination - what are those? Technologies.
And what if it just plain works? Certain terminally ill cancer patients had deep brain stimulation to 'wind down' the part of their brain associated with the internal commentary on pain. The results were amazing. They did not need morphine until the very last weeks of their lives. We are working on various ways to make that winding down of mental chatter permanent and non-invasive. That seems like a huge support for the pursuit of enlightenment.
I had magnets put over my right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to treat my OCD, a horrifying disease that has been a huge obstacle to my progress in quieting my mind. It worked. Is that not a support for the path to enlightenment?
The fact that a mass murderer becomes enlightened out of nowhere means that the concept of karma just went down the toilet.
learn a little kid.
He goes on, with an endless array of Mudras, lauding the manipulations of a reality that is a gift of Hashem. Manipulation is the consequence of political enthrallment.
Bla bla bla bla...This is what many other tradistions and religious way had explained the world for thousands years but we didnt learned any thing from it..
Bla bla bla will enrich your life. Bless you.
@@tintswe9208 This blablabla is very good for your life, it gives you imortality
I’m curious, how much money Mr. Wallace earned on Buddhism...more than Thurman or less...!? Buddha was teaching for free, took no money for his job. It is written that Buddha said ....or....rather....lamented....about people in his time who sell his teachings and make a fortune on them. He said those monks, scholars create only intense bad karma. And we know what bad karma means, no...?
There always have been social and financial arrangements that make the teaching situation possible. Of course there shouldn't be pecuniary motives, but you seem to put forward an unreachable ideal of the non-presence of money. Buddha took donations of entire parks full of trees, for example. He used those parks for teaching to his students.
Dan Yerushalmi Don't tell me a gift from a king is a salary money....these shitty people are telling nonsense about Buddha Dharma and ripping a heavy bucks for their blabbering. Same like Kabbat Zinn and Jack Kornfield. If you know Buddha's teachings in your Heart you can discern between what is true what is false. If you don't know beans about true Dharma then buy one more of Mr. Wallace's or Mr. Thurman's book. Yeah. Have a nice days of reading this garbage, OK?
Well, sir, I'm saying that at today's land prices, a gift of a good piece of land could be a way of retiring nicely. I don't yet believe you are in a position to judge who is real and who is not. I think you will agree 'salaries' are not the primary criteria for that. I haven't seen any evidence that either of those persons you mentioned are motivated by money. And I haven't seen any evidence that you can live on pure air yourself, or can you? If everybody who gets any financial advantage is fake, we would have to conclude that everybody is a fake, because all get financial advantages, even the poorest monks. If they don't, they starve. And I imagine you would like to see that happen, wouldn't you? Death by starvation would be the ultimate in pure authenticity. So go for it.
Dan Yerushalmi Yeah, you're right. Why not to enroll to Columbia University or University of Washington and to pay the fee for 5 year study the Buddhism under Wallance or Thurman. I hope you are enough well off to cover the price, are you not...? You will learn nonsense and win a PHD in Comparative Religions or in Eastern Religions or...in Buddhism. You also will stay short of 50 to 80 thousand dollars paid straight to pockiet of University employers including such blabbers like Wallance who is tripping in this video, no...?
Money cannot buy rainbow body :}