Prof. B. Alan Wallace talks on “The Buddhist Science of Mind.”

Prof. B. Alan Wallace, dynamic lecturer, progressive scholar, and one of the most prolific writers and translators of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, talks on “The Buddhist Science of Mind” for the general public at LTWA Buddhist Philosophy Hall.
28th November, 2017
Day 1

[@fredoctober1324]

Mr(Dr) Wallace is quickly becoming one of my favorite scholars. Peace and blessings good sir.

[@知幻即離離幻即覺]

6:20 the buddhist science of Mind 42:00 the psyche 1:01:00 the second dimension 1:27:00 the third dimension 1:41:00 Q&A

[@M16-k6s]

Allen Wallace is a perfect buddhist scholars with profound insights on buddhist phylosophy. I really appreciate and admire every single succint precious words during his teaching. Allen perfectly blend the two perfect wisdom; Modern science and buddhist phylosophy, using logic and reasoning.

[@fretnesbutke3233]

Coming from a "Western" religious culture,the accord between faith and reason in Buddhism,now more than ever,is one of the many appealing attributes that drew me to the Dharma.

[@squamish4244]

He has his blind spots.

[@squamish4244]

@ඇත්ත තිත්තයි Of course. He's just rather too much of a by-the-book traditionalist for me, and he can't or won't see how AI and neuroscience are about to drastically change the Buddhist path. I am in general concerned about the lack of dialogue in Buddhism about the _very_ rapid advance of these extremely powerful forces. So it's not just Alan Wallace. He's such a public figure, however, that he kind of encapsulates the problems I see.

[@squamish4244]

@ඇත්ත තිත්තයි It's not me and Alan. It's traditionalists vs. innovators. And these are questions that we must deal with *today*, and not put off because they are tough questions. I can challenge pretty much anyone but a spiritual teacher, and when I do, people act like I'm not allowed to. That's not right. And yes, I do have blind spots and biases.

[@squamish4244]

@ඇත්ත තිත්තයි I'm glad we agree about how a modern, rationalist approach is needed. As for myself - well, there's nothing fancy about my approach. I just observe what's going on in the world right now. You've seen all the same headlines about how fast AI is advancing. You've probably seen the news about brain-decoding (decoding brainwaves and forming images and words on a screen) and brain stimulation to alter states of consciousness. So I look at this stuff, and I look to spiritual teachers for guidance on these topics, and mostly they are silent. It worries me. We need a lot more discussion about how this will all be integrated. We can't keep them separate. Nor do we want to. I think technology can help a great deal with spirituality. Psychedelics are a kind of technology, and they have really helped me in a way that thousands of hours of meditation could not. Neurofeedback has really helped me too. And there is a lot more being worked on in labs right now that will rapidly accelerate the path for everyone, if we use it right. Anyway, I don't want to ramble on or bore you. Those are just my thoughts and why I brought the issue up in the first place. Thank god the spiritual traditions have already established a strong foundation, because otherwise, I would be a lot more worried about all these developments and freaking out like a lot of people are right now about AI. But I'm not, because I have a strong faith in the dharma and in enlightenment as the ultimate goal of existence.

[@Amydolma]

Truly blessed to be listening to Allan’s teaching! Thank you Allan!

[@ratnanayak6337]

Saraswati talking. . absolutely mind blowing..Allan Wallace..his command over the language n subject it is absolutely a pleasure listening to him...could go on n on 🙏🙏

[@flugzeugtagerauenbeleuchtu468]

The presentation broke its fourth wall when it showed a screening of itself. Now that perfectly ilustrates ontological relativity.

[@Hugatree1]

What a beautiful gentleman. A great teaching. Many thanks

[@allbritecarcare]

Yogi Wallace, thanks a million. You make things simplified and easy and motivates me to practice Samata more and more. I am getting back to my Indian roots which I lost due my western education because of British played havoc in India by them abolishing our gurukul system of learning and establishing their system of learning to suppress us and rule. They did lots of damage by stealing our knowledge and spirits. No crying over the spilled milk, but to practice more and catch up the ground. A deep bow to you. 🙏🙏🙏

[@squamish4244]

I would argue by far the greater damage was done by the Central Asian nomadic invaders who destroyed Nalanda University in the 12th Century. Indian Buddhism survived in Tibet, but nearly in as large numbers or wealth. Good old nomads, setting back civilization since 1,000 BC.

[@itzakehrenberg3449]

No, the British didn't steal your knowledge or establish their system of learning to suppress and rule. Cut it with your Indian Nationalist crapola.

[@AlexHop1]

Thank you, great interviewer and great interviewee!

[@Deepsea73]

Alan B Wallace, wonderful being 😊

[@nikh8545]

Excellent talk. Wallace had very eloquently presented his case. I am, in general, a skeptic and a rationalist. But as Wallace says we should be doing more scientific research using first-person experiences of contemplatives. Rigorous testing would give us insight into whether Siddhis actually exist or all these people were simply mistaken.

[@bce1279]

Absolutely on point, amazing, I wish I seen this earlier. Thankyou.

[@fredfunk9122]

Ive always had the memory of my mother telling me "u used to tell me, I tried to come before but I had to go back, and experience pictures-thoughts-relating to breaking through-im ready

[@em-dy3hn]

B. Alan Wallace mentioned on a podcast with Raghu Markus that an anagram for his name is "Balance walla!" Hee hee.

[@5piles]

starts 6:21

[@tenzind4175]

Feeling Blessed Thsnk you Sir .. Namo Buddha 🎉🙏

[@celestes.7187]

Thank you 🙏🏼 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@MissRenee_X]

I love Allan Wallace.

[@uziao]

thank you from Brasil ^.^

[@cerystramontini]

precious Lama Alan Wallace...

[@naimulhaq9626]

Our eyes, ears and all five senses, transfer information to the pineal gland where neural connections employ quantum computing systems built in all these along with the brain in general and all the cells of the body. The brain and the genomes acts both as soft ware and hard ware of a computer, while the environment act both as input and output screen, facilitating evolution. Meditation employs the quantum computing capacity of the pineal gland to gather knowledge and increase creativity and acts as the center of consciousness.

[@JeffCaplan313]

Naimul Haq I like your description . In this scenario, what does it mean for the concept of rig pa?

[@squamish4244]

All this information is fed through the thalamus before it goes anywhere.

[@squamish4244]

@@JeffCaplan313 The ability to experience rigpa probably has neural correlates in the brain and therefore ways to 'open' the brain so that we can subjectively experience it.

[@NgawangLobsang-nm4fx]

​@@squamish4244 perfect

[@5piles]

​@@squamish4244 the dozens of tukdam cases studied by prof. richard davidson and his team in 'the tukdam project' have negated entirely these dogmatic evidenceless speculations that awareness is a property of any part of the brain. in fact their research breaks all of modern biology and physics and in the lecture available here (search richard davidson tukdam) he says their soon to be published studies is really going to cause serious trouble in multiple fields. anyway the tukdam in taipei 2020 which lasted over 30 days was fully monitored and tested by neuroscientists from taipei unis. that alone breaks physicalism because they recorded brain activity activation and more weeks post clinical death in addition to the normal signs of tukdam such as lack of rigormortis. a written article laying out some of the data is available online.

[@randymurphy]

When a lecturer starts off saying that Copernicus never made any observations, or even looked up at the sky ( 10:44 ), it makes you question the rest. Copernicus made three observations of Mercury, with errors of −3, −15 and −1 minutes of arc. He made one of Venus, with an error of −24 minutes. Four were made of Mars, with errors of 2, 20, 77, and 137 minutes. Four observations were made of Jupiter, with errors of 32, 51, −11 and 25 minutes. He made four of Saturn, with errors of 31, 20, 23 and −4 minutes.

[@randymurphy]

@@5piles Do you even have an animal level of respect for the truth? If you're going to make a point that you want people to accept, then it's a good idea to make sure you have your facts straight. That is unless your audience is either gullible or doesn't use a modicum of critical thinking.

[@itzakehrenberg3449]

@@5piles He did say that Copernicus made no observations, "Folk" or otherwise.

[@5piles]

​@@itzakehrenberg3449 he said copernicus had no way of rigorously observing the phenomenon he sought to understand, and therefore unlike galielo was simply continuing the 1400yr bandwagon of scholars doing metaphysics and not science ie. not rigorously observing the phenomenon to be understood. copernicus and the 1400yrs before him was swept aside in 7 days of galelio doing rigorous observation of the phenomenon. this is wallaces whole point. and now we are doing the same with regards to awareness. we're not doing science with it. in fact ppl like dennett use the fact of folk introspection, the fact of no method to rigorously observe awareness, as evidence in proof of his metaphysics that the mind is a property of the physical. this is quite similar to the academics who refused to look through galileos telescope, since they were so sure according to their metaphysics that doing so was pointless because whatever it is they would see would necessarily have to be merely an aberration.

[@kevinjay3121]

I'm practising Buddhism but need a teacher and financial help so I can visit Tibet and expand my knowledge, anyone help atoll thanks

[@glennsimonsen8421]

Silver and gold have I none. But such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. You don't need to go to Tibet. Mr. Wallace is a false teacher.

[@PeterOzanne]

@@glennsimonsen8421 I don't think you understand Jesus, let alone buddhism!

[@zenoelea8239]

Thank you :)

[@richardtineo2735]

Has someone heard about Antonio Damasio and his research on consciousness ??

[@uziao]

01:07:27 Dudjom Lingpa 01:34:27 4th time

[@squamish4244]

Alan "I have to mention Dudjom Lingpa in every talk" Wallace.

[@AdityaSawdekar]

Who is Dudjom Lingpa?

[@uziao]

@@AdityaSawdekar Dudjom Lingpa is a 19th century Atiyoga/Dzogchen Terton, great master of Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddism

[@AdityaSawdekar]

@@uziao Thanks a lot for the swift reply🙏🙏🙏

[@guymichel101]

What do you think? And how and why? And why not?

[@aninewforest]

There are several popular books uniting quantum physics and Buddhism, most notably Gary Zukav's Stalking the Wild Pendulum, but people enjoy these books as a kind of escapism. I don't think you can tell people nothing is truly real and the universe is deterministic and then expect them to tackle climate change in any meaningful way.

[@backwardthoughts1022]

buddhism denies determinism, as discrimination intention urges and actions are all mental factors of the functioning mind

[@italianmiltyfriedman6264]

Starts at 6:25

[@taidelek9994]

Om Ah Hu 🙏

[@TenzinKonchok]

I read his this book

[@tenzin-9881]

Kindle ebook ?

[@lsjtungtan2392]

From one's opinion/view ..... which the viewers/listeners must be contemplated beyond their intelligences! Methinks that the orator has the acme of experiences and eruditions. And yet, Kalama Sutta must be kept in mind while viewing this video!!!

[@buddhaneosiddhananda8499]

Even the Buddha taught "Seek and you will find..." Just like Jesus...

[@shakyachiniya2898]

But the Buddha was older than jesus.

[@buddhaneosiddhananda8499]

@@shakyachiniya2898 ... and indeed Jesus did learn Buddhism and yoga and other religions... check out... "The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ..."😋😋

[@PeterOzanne]

Luckily Reality, the true nature of mind, never gets old 😂​@@shakyachiniya2898

[@edwardlobb931]

The throne of cultural appropriation offers moments beyond perception. Alan deserves a legitimate level of praise.

[@Nicoladen1]

So science could argue that consciousness is an illusion, and everything is happening regardless of wether we believe we're conscious or not. Consciousness could thus be a stream of memories, rather than a representation of what is. Possibly.

[@5piles]

consciousness as memory is to deny consciousness as consciousness

[@protofone3616]

And you might actually know more than Alan Wallace, probably🤦🏻‍♂️

[@nandakumar1780]

Calculated every life's memory effects as behaviour in living life as withought any training or teaching but some act may good or bade.

[@chakmautaypu6919]

Buddha (1)☝️🙏🙏🙏🙌💚❤️💚

[@dromgarvan]

The mind? What exactly are they examining,a type of behaviour perhaps?

[@argosron9838]

Exactly, you notice how convenient is the use of the word mind ...it means everything, thoughts, emotions, memory, considerations, mental activity, self, spirit, soul, how easy to use this word for everything you cannot even spot or name, having no even a clear definition, is it an attitude? Is it a behaviour? Even worst than that , using this word everyone seems to understand what you mean, but the epitome of ignorance is to state that the mind is what is going from one life to one next reincarnation.

[@5piles]

​@@argosron9838 imagine stating that buddhism doesnt have strict definitions of mind. you very likely dont even know indian versions of logic which are far superior to western style. youre clueless, but keep yapping.

[@ivandansigmun3891]

Start 06:20

[@ellesunshine5597]

🙏💜

[@utubetruthteller]

Science and technology is just an entertainment for human mind these can never give permanent solution to human condition which is suffering or non satisfaction.

[@nickshelbourne4426]

Please take a look at the following website: ourworldindata.org/ Now please explain how poverty, hunger, illiteracy, etc., have shot down? Is it because of Buddhists meditating in caves? I think that Buddhism has a valid perspective to offer, perhaps even a vital one, but trying to dismiss science is foolish. I thought that one of the purposes of meditation was to avoid foolishness.

[@placerdemaio]

@@nickshelbourne4426 What he was trying to say by using poor words, is that we need wisdom, especially in valor and meaning field, all the problems in the world come from ignorance basically, the ''movement'' that did come from india, is the only one that absorves the tool of science very well and at the same time probe the conscience and ''soul'' at the same time, they are the closes thing to a human collective conscience, like a corporation, but a corporation have only one dimention, hunger, like the CIA have many dimensions but it is a metaphor, it is a machine, but the most complete collective organization that the humanity did produce i think Buddhism at least the closest in my opinion, because if we finally have a consciousness the humanitys problem will be gone basically, we need more wisdom right now and consciousness, not just comfort, the prove that we dont ''need'' is was the many ages that humanity did live in caves just fine back them hehe, so you see, even the literal sense of buddhist meditating in caves will be what we most need literally, only of course if he can discover how to fix our biggest problem, that it is not hunger, it is far more, management problems like greed or others corruptions, root of wars (ignorance) etc...

[@squamish4244]

Science and technology aimed specifically at understanding the mind could produce huge increases in well-being. Neurofeedback, brainwave entrainment, photobiomodulation etc. are all technologies that have helped countless people work through deep mental obscurations and emotional pain and even in some cases triggered awakening experiences. These are seeds of the technology to come which will produce results akin to years meditating in caves but on a much shorter timescale and with far less effort. For instance: www.ttconf.org/ People get all weirded out by this stuff, but it's no weirder than the techniques Buddhism has already developed, which meet the definition of technology anyway.

[@truth8307]

Together with Buddhism, your problem can be solved.

[@squamish4244]

@@5piles How would you know?

[@BioStuff415]

where is this place?

[@belfindissanayaka5770]

Pls define the word sole.

[@5piles]

soul is defined as 'you' that is independent of your mind and independent of your body ie. the "real" essential you. buddhadharma denies the existence of such a you that is independent of your mind and body. buddhism states that 'you' is established in dependence on mind and body

[@nandakumar1780]

Memory of every day or a month but memory depend on destroying from hoote behaviours after having rest some memories so that can call after long times and my livings paths with peace after effective memory behaviour or out of behavior and memoirs from past our grands.

[@PeterOzanne]

I am so sorry to say that no English person can understand what you have written. Your use of language is so bad, there are no commas etc, and you use words that have no meanings, like "hoote" and "grands". Please get help from a good English speaker so that we can understand you! 🙏☺️🕉️

[@fredfunk9122]

I have a reference, memory of being void of anything, almost like "traveling thru space as the universe itself" n "memory" or reference of being inside my mother's womb as nothing I would be honored to follow u

[@hyperqbit7246]

Prof. Wallace’s lack of understanding of Samadhi and India’s Yoga is astonishing. And he is considered a scholar who has an insider’s insight into the mind.

[@itzakehrenberg3449]

You must know though, right?

[@golgipogo]

I agree with the doubter.

[@PeterOzanne]

Alan Wallace knows about Samdhi: of this I am sure. One thing may be that people express the truth in contradictory ways, like the 5 blind men with the elephant ☺️

[@valerieevanier9632]

I wouldn't say quantum physics torpedoes Newtonian physics. From the safety features on your car to baseball, that's all Newtonian physics. It is indispensable to daily life. Try driving your car using quantum mechanics - no matter how much you observe it, it isn't going to change position. The takeaway point here is that they both exist at the same time. The brain/mind I see in the same way. How we feel, how we see the world, can be altered by nothing more than chemical imbalances. Have someone remove your prefrontal cortex and you will find your behavior will change dramatically. But isn't that what Buddhism says? That there is no 'self'? If you go deeper into that sodium ion pulsing in and out of a neuron you will however find things operating quite differently. They also both exist at the same time. Buddhism is really quite amazing in its philosophy and practice and can do so much in the effort to relieve suffering, and it should not shun the idea of what it can contribute to scientific research - especially neuroscience - just because it, at least at the present time, is focused on the bigger than quantum mechanics level of reality. That exists too, in a way very fundamental to daily life.

[@protofone3616]

Good luck trying to argue with Alan Wallace 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@protofone3616]

And I bet you wear a mask too...

[@piti-sukkah]

25:24 very fallacious reasoning. We don't know how consciousness is produced, but just because consciousness is complicated, doesn't mean is can't be a product of our brains.

[@PeterOzanne]

In Buddhism, it doesn't matter at all anyway! 🙂

[@glennsimonsen8421]

This dude's from California. Why does he speak English with a stilted and fake Tibetan accent?

[@PeterOzanne]

Probably because he lived alone with Tibetans, Indians, Thais etc for several decades.

[@zatoichiable]

What is he trying to teach us?

[@squamish4244]

Kind of a disorganized presentation.

[@av2525]

From other talks I've seen of him, he seems to be passionate about demonstrating the short comings of physical science. I do not know why this is necessary. Buddhists generally do not need to be convinced of the importance of introspection. At times, it seems he may have a vendetta against physical science. It is a strange attitude to find in a studied Buddhist. However, I am no Buddhist myself, so I may have the wrong impression of how Buddhism shapes attitude.

[@squamish4244]

I am a Buddhist, and Alan Wallace gets under my skin. He does seem to have a vendetta against physical science, one that appears to have only gotten worse over the years. I think there are a couple of things going on here. First, he is annoyed about the persistent dogma that consciousness is material and emerges from the brain, and how that dogma gets in the way of progress in studying the mind. I share this sentiment. Second, he knows that science is beginning to make serious inroads into areas that used to be Buddhism's 'special' domain, like the knowledge of the inner workings of the mind. He saves his harshest criticisms and snide remarks for neuroscience, as it is the most threatening. If neuroscience continues to advance at the speed with which it is doing so now, it is very likely that in another 20 years or so it will have surpassed Buddhism in many ways in terms of precise knowledge of what is going on in the mind. More importantly, this will enable technologists to develop far more powerful means of enlightenment than meditation. This should be great news, and it is for ordinary joes like me, but for someone like Alan who has devoted 50 years to meditation and built his career and identity around it, he seems like he is in denial that the techniques he teaches could be rendered obsolete within his own lifetime. Also, as an aside, he disparages antidepressants and psychiatric medications in general on other videos. This is a dangerous position to take, as it might make some people think that they don't need their medications or that to be a 'real Buddhist' you shouldn't take them. He isn't in a position to give such advice.

[@squamish4244]

My essential point is that Alan Wallace is far too traditional to offer practical solutions for the 21st Century. Among all the people I have encountered who have shown interest in the spiritual path, the one thing I keep encountering again and again is the desperate need for better tools (in Buddhist terms, skillful means) than the ones we have. Meditation involves a tremendous amount of time and energy that almost everyone doesn't have access to, and isn't going to anytime soon. And if you are lucky you might get enlightened in a few decades, maybe a lifetime, maybe NEXT lifetime. If business, politics, sports or any other human endeavor promised this sort of miserable success rate, it would be laughed at. "You'll be a great athlete if you work really hard...a great athlete in your next life." But in Buddhism, teachers are not challenged enough and teachings are give a pass because they are old. We need people to call bullshit on this. And yes, of course neuroscience is stuck in its own dogma. But the problem with Alan Wallace is he is just as guilty of glossing over its staggering findings and implications as neuroscience is Buddhism.

[@squamish4244]

I've spent 14 years within and outside of Tibetan Buddhism, I've suffered a massive nervous breakdown on psychedelics, been a drug addict, detoxed, struggled with anxiety and depression, and dealt with kundalini syndrome. I've seen what meditation can and cannot do for most mere mortals. My conviction is that if we do not find new skillful means of practice, and if we remain afraid to challenge longstanding wisdom, Buddhism will never succeed in spreading beyond a fraction of society. The great masters will always be a tiny elite. That is not going to help us face a rapidly changing world with many serious challenges. Other Buddhist masters have different opinions than Alan. For instance, this from Shinzen Young, who is at least as qualified as Alan. It's a long quote, but worth seriously considering: _"So, the practical consequence of new understandings is, possibly, new technologies for getting to the classical results of the past in meditation...there are important things about enlightenment that none of the greatest masters of the past, including the Buddha himself, knew. Because they couldn’t have known. Because they didn’t have a scientific knowledge of the world. So, if that is indeed the case, then there are new and important things that can be said about classical enlightenment that is pretty much universal around the world in all of the meditative traditions._ _If there aren’t new and important things to be said, if the last word and the best word on this subject was uttered 2,500 years ago and there’s no room for fundamental improvement, then there’s not much hope for humanity._ _I take the Buddha as being the Sir Issac Newton of world spirituality. There’s science before Newton and there’s science after Newton and there was just a quantum jump after Newton’s formulation. And I think 2,500 years ago we had something like that happen in human spirituality with the historical Buddha. The question is, there was Newton, but then within a short period of time there was Einstein and Planck and, before that even, Maxwell, then there’s Richard Feynman. There are these people who took Newton and developed relativistic and quantum physics from that-it doesn’t replace Newton, but it takes it to the next step. So, I’m waiting for the next step-it has been 2,500 years, who will play the Einstein to the Buddha’s Newton?"_

[@rnd209]

First seek the Kingdom of God.

[@WhirledPublishing]

The Kingdom of God is within.

[@PeterOzanne]

That is what Buddhism means - except we don't call it "the kingdom of God"

[@mangeshingle2891]

One should experience the Land Mark forum technology... And experience themselves what is what... Enjoy

[@dasaya007]

This is to start conversation with you about a certain aspect of buddhist philosophy. People including you and me have world views. Qbism, buddism ,quantum etc. But what is common is that we all have an ability to hold a view. (It is not simply "we" are holding a view. We is defined by the view, which may not be prominent ) This ability to hold view,see,hear,perceive is what seeing,hearing ,thinking is based on, it only manifest with perceiving although it is not perceiving but the potential for perception .hence world and world views are build upon it. If you have studied Vedha hindu, might have heard about brahama creator/destroyer of the world ,and they refer to this ability This ability is also a construct and ttherefore is illusion and based on awijja/ignorance . If ability is construction everything based on it is an illusions. That is why buddhist can not hold world view. It is not because it is wrong ,simply because it could not exist

[@johncharlesworth3850]

You seem to confuse the Mind as the Spirit.

[@mrolesen604]

3 parts of the soul,, Spirit, Mind, Will

[@hanumantareddy6294]

Cannot be generalised the mind or consciousness behaviour. Sharing experiences are clues that provide ground to feel mind and consciousness and that too with uncertainty. Feelings might be those like Elephant & 4 blind men, a story. Science is external. Generalised knowledge. Learning without experience. It is like observing picture of food that cannot feed the appetite. Yet there is ample scope in such learning to get activated or provoked to convert this into experience. We call them philosopher/ scientist or .... Scietists are not a product of generalised science education, otherwise all the present world would have been full of scientists. Science does not provide the certain end result. There is always a scope of correction or redefining the past discoveries. Thats how the Noble prizes are continuing, old wine -new bottle.....

[@king-zq4il]

Allan is englightend one😂

[@Jackass17777]

Allal is terrorist religion

[@sidecardude]

Starts at 6:25, much egoic into.....

[@rameshhansaravendra]

Ray SideCarDude . Thank you

[@sidecardude]

Welcome......

[@kennethb.goldberg1788]

The correlation is that the brain is the electric current that turns on the light. The light is the consciousness and the brain electrical neurons get everything going. Just an idea

[@benjaminrohling6365]

I don't have a psyche. I have got a yche

[@nandakumar1780]

Life ' behaves ' creator's ask owne son or daughter if have done good or bade, are note nature's of mom:papa' but how creator's behaves with mee ?? Asking Answer awaiting from my couse of creator's ..

[@buddhaneosiddhananda8499]

A healthy person... is a smart person...😜😜

[@62roza]

From thirteen years old I have had depression I fought with it all my life to not killing my self until I know the true about my being here and this universe.It's been forty years I tried to find the true between religious, science, technology and psychology but when I study about human brain and how it's work, I am so disappointed of finding the true because it's tricking us all the time, so how could I find the true when my brain don't help me even when I make it to be silent. I am so desperate

[@Zeddd7]

Sounds like you are looking for truth outside yourself. You might not find truth inside, not at first at least. Initially you may not even find peace, but if keep working at it, eventually you will. Looking out is cause for all dissatisfaction. Looking in are all the reasons dissatisfaction arises. Just keep looking without judgement, peace will come eventually and truth may even show itself. I hope this helps, but if not, please ignore it.

[@tedl7538]

Try chocolate, Chopin, cherries, chinchillas, chia seeds and chakras

[@truth8307]

Have you understand the 4 Noble Truths and follow the Noble 8 Fold Path ?

[@장효순-s9g]

Padma sambaba

[@zavianwilson6070]

Great video... sounds like the venue was in an asylum... all that banging and screaming in the background.

[@parkbench94]

There are certain people you can't protect from their own ignorance. They live as children who believe in bed time stories and stay asleep.

[@jo-jovolkswagen7136]

By the way ... can I ask .. about the color of the laser that u are about to use tohunting me out from this hell ...?

[@argosron9838]

The essential nature of the mind??? The mind does not exist it is a construct /the overuse of the word "mind" speaking about spiritual matters is just showing total ignorance of the phenomenon of consciousness and the role of the crown chakra into it.

[@5piles]

u cant create illusions of nonspatial appearances out of meat chunks. the thought that u can is an old idea from ppl who still cant figure out that alcohol conditions the effect of being drunk without any mass-energy arising as that experience or worse the illusion of there being that experience. in other words ur praying to god but too stupid to figure it out cos muhhhh sciience.

[@stevemann6528]

The problem with modern science is like driving a car. Modern scientists will learn about the specs of the car and learn the highway code and claim they know how to drive a car, but if you have never actually got into a car and driven on the road you don't actually know what's it's like to drive a car.

[@TheGuiltsOfUs]

About as scientific as Deepak Chopra.

[@PeterOzanne]

You are misunderstanding, I think. It is scientific in the sense that the Path requires proper self-observation, not belief.

[@shawn6669]

Ummm..when he's defining these two words "naturalism" and "scientism" he defines them or rather describes them as having been defined in such a way as to be poorly phrased and, thereby, easily refuted. I'm only 17 min in, but it's not a promising start.

[@squamish4244]

He has a not-so-subtle vendetta against physical science, especially neuroscience. It's weird.

[@5piles]

easily refute what? hes simply staying the fact that there is no agreed upon definition of consciousness and no neural correlate for mere consciousness ie. no scientific evidence for the existence of mind and yet they talk. these are not even slightly controversial.

[@장효순-s9g]

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[@liamnewsom8583]

Jesus Christ this guy is next level

[@glennsimonsen8421]

Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life.

[@benjaminrohling6365]

it's not a mind. it's a mine

[@monicagentile9739]

I'll try drinking more water with protein while getting my fingers into the power socket...maybe I get absolute bodhicitta

[@bn2870]

How did it work? I’m considering your advice.

[@WhirledPublishing]

I mix hemp protein powder with green nutritional powder, red nutritional powder, and various other ingredients - twice a day - I went from feeling too tired to walk to feeling like I was 30.

[@bn2870]

@@WhirledPublishing made out with a lot of chicks?

[@WhirledPublishing]

@@bn2870 As a woman - born female - I have no interest in making out with "chicks" - let us know when you're ready to grow up and start thinking with your brain instead of the completely wrong appendage.

[@bn2870]

@@WhirledPublishing I wasn’t under the impression this was a serious post.

[@jo-jovolkswagen7136]

The point is ...is it too late to get that kids back to life again after damage them almost loose their hope to live and keep their good heart and good believing in the good that still left in their journey ?

[@renujajayaratne5582]

Professor Alan I don't know whether you are doing this intentionally oh unintentionally but you should not sit on a chair while a monk is stanging standing beside you, the only person who is allowed to do that is another monk 😅😅

[@PeterOzanne]

Professor Alan IS a monk!! 🙂 He has been a total monk for about 10 years.

[@jo-jovolkswagen7136]

Mine ..for the gold digger or dick or for the good kids who willing to make the change from agreeing to protect the world together from the alien stupid kids who lost with the chemicals drug ! Or ..my...mines....miles.... mind...

[@frankfeldman6657]

Just spent an hour with one of this guy's books on the treadmill at the gym. How ironic that it was a treadmill, in that it/he took me absolutely nowhere. One cough of Alan Watts contains more wisdom, humor, and poetry then, etc., etc.

[@X097DPMS]

Alan Wallace is just more sophisticated version of Deepak Chopra. In fact the same stupid "non-materialistic" talk.

[@mrolesen604]

The Big Bang 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@robertwilson-uk1cn]

It always makes me cynical when I see people who are apparently concerned about the state of humankind and the planet drinking bottled water. Please! So easy to avoid this. What the ..........................

[@RaginYak]

Yes, someone pour water on his hand to drink.

[@carlosebert6702]

There is no such thing...

[@5piles]

meat chunks that has subjectivity is more ridiculous than simple subjectivity existing. in reality the latter is established empirically by fully developed minds capable of perfect concentration eg. the vietnamese monk that sat without flinching a muscle while he burned to death.

[@jo-jovolkswagen7136]

I just wait ....and keep holding the time to see ...how conscious of the people in the world right now ...what the world ... thinking or have someone who have the ideas about this game ...when ... the kids didn't want to be recantation ...it is because the kid are afraid to be back to the world of communist......cause the kid feel so freedom to have the liberty for speech ...not ...like slave can not present what inside the heart and gold of mine for working and digging .../ or ...the kid is afraid ... to the shape knife like shappie waiting for slide cut and die bleeding ...with the kid know .. the better and beauty life that this kids may lucky to face and have it .. but .. can not be true .. because of the kids under cover blocking .. both of them to do the right the for their lie and the world world .. I blame .. your bad intention that u use for blocking these kids...they are just s lost kids ..who not even can have the name or the ID. ..or the better work... no money .. nothing. In life.. do u afraid these kids to be better or have better lie than you? Come on... and you wish the see the smart ass kids who can find ,figure out and get out from this black hole ... ? I don't judge other .. I know .. all bad thing happen because of my IQ.. my own education about life .. if all the kids their parent send them to school ...any schools... but then they finish ..and by accident..get hit with the inexperience about love ... the god and angerous evil of human secret game .. they are all fail ..... not know how to thing ...think right ...thinking right ... it is the right to think that ..right for other and end our life with surrender and not standing with my own feet .. for making the world that the world is right all the time .. and the kids wrong ... and if the kids are wrong .. better not to get a chance to speak or make the change and be accepted to be part of the society .. ?

[@장효순-s9g]

Infer

[@jo-jovolkswagen7136]

I am the kid ...in the experiment about split the brain into 3 parts and put the one. Part of the Brian in each kid ..and the kids will live in the matrix ...such a long time...fighting each other by no communicate face to face to fix the problem ..( because he thinks he know the best so, he keep on doing that activity " I am not sure that someone or the god or the devil force him to do that and never change his mind ...by use his consciousness to see the realistic in the world of Math world ... maybe he see those in the way of real tough lie a lot will be the only way to make the better world and create such a painful and life miserable from not communicating to the next person with him ....and believing that is the only way and only that option for survival in that area...so...I say..in the easy way he looks at the real thing ...but way to exaggerate....if he use his mind or his heart look at the real world ...and that situation with kindness and knowledge of laws , constitutes, criminal or not guilty if ....you. Take the other optional ...and the separate the one who he likes ( the one who didn't find the hope to live and keep on loosing everything in life commit suicide like the nurse from hospital saying ...as doubt ) So...those kids whoever in the 2018 now are dealing or get invole with the specific alien - drug retailers for living In the basement ...and willing to die inside that small basement with many eyes from the world watching every single day... I don't know that he knows ...or he didn't know at all... about ..what is life ? Working ...job .... Sin..or some kind of the tricky tricky and get the kids misunderstand and fall in trap of the trap ...until become the victim and maybe turn to be the person who really dangerous ( cause yourself and other kids / alien die with knowing or not knowing ...) human is very smart to put the human fear and feeling afraid from what the weapon that the world use to control human / type / race / specie etc .. if u know the info.. just only one part from 3 info. More combine into one.. and u use your opinion and force yourself to be in that basement forever and suffering with the behavior that can not change not because of the addiction from the crack ..but from the not knowing the truth and the fact people hide from them .. The kids they have been experiencing the same story but different roles and cash..but big difference about the depression or just a bit depress + feeling weird and fighting with the feeling that against your true desire by the big boss who control everyone all the time. If these kids can not be the best kids who are the good kids willing to create good thing and give the understanding-love by wasting the time ..." budget ...miserable life that ..can not reach to their dream ..create more problem to the world and other kids ..because of..." cause of ...what ?..?.?.?..?. Rules and regulations of the game of thrones and ...the true color of your skin beat your love down to the down and bury the heart in one place like other kids? Can I ask ...do you like to see the kids who ...you called that ...he or she or it or whatever is the one that you are willing happily accept into your team or your slave or your people in the same side like you ...in the worst condition...( i mean his physical body and mind and can't repair ..or very hard help /heal anymore) or actually those kid ..they are just the group of your entertainment..you never give a shit ..they will die in that basement or battle field ...all of them .. and u are hoping them to die as quick as possible so, the new set will come ..no traffic for your business ... right?

[@jo-jovolkswagen7136]

U said ....consciousness..is what ? ... knowing ..awakening..know the fact of the truth that ..how it is , it is like that .. you know what is good , bad , very wrong , very hot and danger but .. why and what do u think some kids still lost their mind and keep on going to that flame ... they know it is very painful like in hell without exit .. but what is sucking them like the super strong magnet .... do you think what is wrong ... the world or the kid mind ? Should blame who ...the other people ...or the technology, the rock , drug , or the hair color or the skin color or the intruders?

[@yahshuarules4801]

Atheism reminds me of homosexuality. You'll just keep coming up with more reasons not to believe in God because you have some kind of woundedness in regards to the subject of God and our divine origins. If you ever come to an end of your life and need help, call on Jesus Christ and give your sins to him, give thanks to the Father who sent him and your entire life will be changed. To me atheism is a backlash to Catholicism honestly. it's a backlash to poorly demonstrated poorly represented religious views. God is Awesome. The relationship with God is awesome and that relationship opens up when we love Jesus and give our hearts to Jesus and to God and walk in the way of God. it is a true science. it's clearly spelled out in the Bible in the New Testament. science is only concerned about what can be observed, tested, and proved by use of the five limited human senses - and has nothing to do with developing spiritually in connection with or expression of God.

[@liamnewsom8583]

Really not seeing anything here to do with atheism being like homosexuality 😂 but thanks for sharing 🙏

[@PeterOzanne]

No. Buddhism is not "atheism". We just don't imagine truth as a supernatural being, we don't make an image of "God", for us the awesome Truth is "Reality as it is", not what the Devil (our out-of-control mind) tells us it is. If your mind is out of control, you can't give yourself to Jesus, of anything Divine. Our bad habits of thinking - always and unconsciously judging people and things as good or bad (for us!), wanting things or disliking things, are like "looking through a glass, darkly" - we don't see God, or Reality, face to face! That is why in the Bible it says "be still". Not be physically still, find mental stillness. And that The "Peace of God" is beyond the understanding of the mind (in the NT). If you have an idea of God as a "Father", that's fine, it can be helpful, for the time when we "see as a child, think as a child".

[@jo-jovolkswagen7136]

I don't have a chance to live with my real dad at all ... but u know what ... I guess ..I know how my dad living and doing and feeling .... by .. look at my life right now with my oyfriend interact and working out from his task... but I live with my mother ...I know how it is feeling ...with her painful and hateful about my dad.. and now ...I play my mom roles... if it has to be like my mom ... So, what is the point of being gay and run away from my mother and reach to this country with someone ..( but I am so young and stupid not know about what the life and what the love and what will happen when trying to settle down after hitting the horizon ...the storm ... the angels. And the star wars team members.. Because of you song .. from Kelly Clark son ...froze me ... froze my brain ..and my lacking dream of my life ...the warm family with someone ..and be together as forever.. I don't think I pick the bad boy .. he is very good heart and smart .. tough ...but he never says a word and he didn't know how to solve .. Each kids life ...they want to reach to their dream or need to pay from the cost of the skin for the future .. the time that start or place or the rival ...match of fight... God always break the couple ... right ?. Or god can negotiate...compromise.. if kids know how to communicate and be proline ... I know that ... but I have to check ..maybe I am lunatic all a long time ...

[@juliaomelchenko1132]

who are you talking to?

[@jo-jovolkswagen7136]

You ....with your heart ....and your emotion ... you will stay on which side of you ...:) .... but u ..have the brain .. and the gold mine that you not suppose to use to create the ...( all the bad thing s ..wasting budget ...and create the broken home of the broken heart kids ...) But 2 hearts is creat one love ...( the good one ...l not the fake or lie for survival in that basement ) ...could make them out from that hole or not?

[@jo-jovolkswagen7136]

But I don't see any tigers here in this basement at all ... just the humble kids who fear so much with trump threat ..until .. don't dare to speak up to make the conference or conversation to find out the solution....is anyone inside and outside there ...to understand.".these kids ... u don't need to understand me ... it is ok.. but if u understand why he can not finish his task that you command him to do ... if u see ..why he delays and delays ..why not cho chop ..what is stop him to do .. what u see ? Or u still force him as ur power ...your way and the only one way to control your world ... ? Or ..

[@jo-jovolkswagen7136]

Is it worth for you to throw those small food and poisons for them to live just day by day from ..the thing that u want to stop doing that ... but the Firefox spidertide web is on forever ... I wonder .. that wall is blocking just the dinosaur or the alien kids who didn't know how to communicate with other human on earth ?

[@jo-jovolkswagen7136]

Why these crazy kids like me never rest and still addicted for the crack ...my reason is .. I want to rest and sleep right this moment ... it has a long time more than ten years with this feeling ... but I didn't get the answer for end this with not to damage him ...or my relationship that I know it is impossible to be inside this without the ....NAME ..nothing can protect ...us from ...the world hateful storm in the world .. keep coming and coming ... hit one and another one and another one until ..things goes disappear..and all the memories..

[@jo-jovolkswagen7136]

U said ...champion...champion of what ?...the worst human on earth ..who living long time in this kind of mental base from ...not knowing the fact ...about ...why not come out and write their name in the building ? What power or what kind of ball to make those kid who know what is for them ..what good for them from true honest intention for good and healing them from your enough to see them and sympathy for the kids or animals who have low IQ and low techniques... or no true love in their life ..? How they know ...?

[@greatescape7735]

Darwin took another's work

[@jo-jovolkswagen7136]

The end is ..the tigers have to cry...out for ..help from outside in the world ?

[@jo-jovolkswagen7136]

I am the one ...who can show him the picture ..all the chaos .. in life .. as the mirror...and I hope ..he will analysis and add mixed with his mourner d....and then...shake it a bit ...so ...all the puzzles will mixed and blended well till he realize what exactly the whole life of human in the world ... and knowing coming out together and use ...our hands to create and repair the world .. to be freaks again ..

[@장효순-s9g]

Padma sambaba