Are today’s conditions yesterday’s payback? B. Alan Wallace (

[@ezeeproproperties8352]

There's simply no one better at expounding the dharma 🙏🙏🙏

[@JesseNickelltheFourth]

Alan Wallace has such an incredible mind!

[@DharmaTime-is-now]

Seriously, he's one of the smartest people I've ever spoken to. Up there with MD/PhDs and literal rocket scientists I've gotten to engage with. I once attended a Mind & Life conference in Washington DC where he was translating for the Dalai Lama. At lunch, the Dalai Lama had the opportunity to meet with then President George Bush and it ran late so Alan gave this 45 minute ad hoc, mind blowing intellectual history of Buddhism in front of a couple thousand people.

[@JesseNickelltheFourth]

@@DharmaTime-is-now Thanks for sharing this video with us.

[@DharmaTime-is-now]

@@JesseNickelltheFourth FYI - we'll be posting a new clip with Alan Wallace on Friday

[@JesseNickelltheFourth]

@@DharmaTime-is-now Thank you for going out of your way to let me know :)

[@squamish4244]

@@DharmaTime-is-now Alan Wallace is great, but too traditional for my taste.

[@gekiryudojo]

Alan is someone I really need to talk with

[@orlandocuadra2125]

Wow! Alan Watts....and today I learn of Alan Wallace!

[@DharmaTime-is-now]

Enjoy! We have a number of other videos with Alan Wallace on the channel.

[@amandamoore4433]

Thanks for sharing this video

[@md.rakibhasan8505]

Thanks for sharing

[@loveyourself_first]

Thanks for posting this video.

[@nasrinaktershapla3044]

I liked this video a lot. I hope you’ll post more from Alan Wallace.

[@mdrabiulislam9669]

Love this!

[@utkarshachetiwal9317]

Thank you for uploading 🙏🏾

[@nazmulhassan770]

Lots of nice educational videos

[@indreamswake]

Can absolutely listen to Alan Wallace till the cows come home.

[@DharmaTime-is-now]

FYI - we'll be posting a new clip with Alan Wallace on Friday

[@utkarshachetiwal9317]

Nammo buddhay 🙏🏾

[@Hiltie1]

Brilliant

[@antonyalex9942]

Really nice videos

[@priyajain6137]

This video is Splendid!

[@kazex4461]

I like your video

[@DharmaTime-is-now]

Thanks much for your feedback. I’ll be posting more videos like this to the channel.

[@rjbullock]

The only thing I think he’s overlooking here is that even if continuity of consciousness were not the case, continuity of society and the species is still a thing. And what we do now affects what other sentient beings will experience later. Isn’t this obvious? So we can not care about these hypothetical future people and do whatever we want - I.e., hedonism - or we can be more caring and compassionate and act appropriately so the future of humankind might have it a little better. We can’t guarantee that, but we can try.

[@saras1487]

It’s quite large and long term web. In the short it can be blaming the victim.

[@squamish4244]

I wish to add that the concept of what karma is and how it works is actually a hotly debated topic in Tibetan Buddhism, and there is no consensus. For instance, Ken Wilber writes that the idea that everything that happens to you is a result of karma is "a rather primitive notion subsequently refined (and later abandoned) by the later schools of Buddhism, where it was recognized that not _everything_ that happens to you is the result of your own past actions. "As *Namkhai Norbu,* master of Dzogchen Buddhism (generally regarded as the pinnacle of Buddhist teaching), explains: *_"There are illnesses produced due to karma, or the previous conditions of the individual. But there are also illnesses generated by energies that come from others, from the outside. And there are illnesses that are provoked by provisional causes, such as food or other combinations of circumstances. And there are illnesses generated by accident. Then there are all kinds of illnesses linked with the environment."_* I think that one day we will be able to quantify karma with the same precision we solve math problems now. But it will probably take a few massive quantum computers and a superintelligent AI to do it :D

[@DharmaTime-is-now]

Thanks for your very thoughtful observation. I've always had a problem with associating things like health issues to karma beyond more obvious ones like cancer to smoking. It's some kind of conventional wisdom or meme within many Buddhist circles. It will be interesting to see how AI and other kinds of research can be brought into these consideration.

[@squamish4244]

@@DharmaTime-is-now Thank you for your own thoughtful response. A lot of people on these videos respond with knee-jerk criticism if you question the teacher on the video, but Alan has his own perspective and blind spots, especially being trained so traditionally and so early on, with direct access to highly advanced teachers. I think genetic disorders probably have a strong karmic component given as they are inherited. But, to the point of the discussion, if _everything_ is karma, then nothing is. Or it becomes a meaningless conversation, because what do you do with that knowledge anyway? Until we have a broader scientific understanding of karma, you have to rely on the clairvoyance of advanced teachers and guides, and gaining access to them is awfully hard for 95% of Buddhist practitioners. I posted a lengthy reply on the "Troublesome psychologic profiles" video last night as well, but it appears to have disappeared. Can you see it? Otherwise I will repost because I want others to have access to the tools that have helped me so much.

[@DharmaTime-is-now]

@@squamish4244 You know, I don't see it and it wasn't "Held for Review" so that's disappointing

[@ezeeproproperties8352]

It'll take as long as it takes you to achieve omniscience.

[@ezeeproproperties8352]

You can't taste the fruit of something you haven't generated the necessary karma (primary causes and cooperative conditions) for.

[@_swordfern]

The sound quality is really difficult.

[@ezeeproproperties8352]

Try the closed captions...

[@yoya4766]

This man looks untrustworthy and a little sinister.

[@cwlim62]

😂 actually Alan Wallace does have that look in this video. But I’ve heard many of his talks on vids and also in person, and I can assure you he is one of the nicest genuine person :)

[@yoya4766]

@@cwlim62 If you don't know him personally you cannot know he's a nice person. The persona of these 'guru's' is always very 'nice'. Btw-That's not to say he isn't nice. From what I've seen he over thinks and intellectualises everything, has zero body consciousness, has or did have a drug problem. He talks too fast and his beady stoned eyes are very off putting.

[@johnnybravo123ab]

I dont trust him either. Kinda wishywashy 😄

[@ezeeproproperties8352]

What you see outside is nothing more than a reflection of what you've got going on inside. You have zero access to him beyond your perceptions, conceptions, labels, narratives, ideas, etc. What you see is purely on you. It's 100% subjective and 0% objective. You see what you have the mind, merit, karma and capacity to see. If you can't maintain pure appearances in the face of something impure, you lack merit. If you see something pure even when something 'impure' is before you, you have merit.

[@protofone3616]

Your comment doesn't define Alan Wallace, it defines you. Your opinion is by no means a sound analysis of him, only of yourself...

[@josephsamuel9770]

I like your video