Vajra voice 💎💎💎🙏🙏🙏🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️

We say "inclusive" but how many people do you know who have the discipline for ethics? I can count them on one hand.

@@ezeeproproperties8352 i think thats why pureland method is so good, since it also includes heavly deluded beeings and offers us a way to buddhahood regardless of our samsaric nature, karma and ignorance. Still good to practice virture but we should know our limitations with relying on "self power".

Omn Lumina Nimbus so true!

Namô Amitabha Buddha from Brazil.

nam mo a di da phat!

I believe this is Yangthang Rinpoche

With Dudjom Lingpa between them 🙏

Hi Janet, I think it's this one: Spacious Path to Freedom: Practical Instructions on the Union of Mahamudra and Atiyoga www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1559393408/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_8PN5CbGM2TCE1

A spacious path to freedom: practical instructions on the union of mahamudra and atiyoga (dzogchen) Gyatrul Rinpoche and Alan Wallace 🙏🙏🙏

Once you understand dependent origination and how the world which we know has arisen, the existence of the Pure Land becomes clear as well. You can't approach Buddhism with a materialist mindset. Mind and phenomena are inseparable.

You don't even have "scientific" proof of consciousness and the fact that consciousness happens is literally the most indubitable knowledge that we have. There are no tools of modern science that can measure the presence of absence of consciousness. Does that mean that we mustn't believe we are aware because science can't prove it?

My suggestion is to watch this at least 10 times.

It's as scientific as mathematics. It's intersubjective. Listen to more of his talks, again and again, until you get it.

I have followed Alan Wallace for many years, and I have the same questions. He seems to have a massive blind spot regarding his relentless criticism of scientific dogma vs. his lack of questioning of his own beliefs and perhaps even dogmas. In his case he is appealing to authority, that is, many highly advanced practitioners have discovered these realms in meditation and that's his evidence. It's not a fallacy per se - appeal to authority is fine in a situation like this - but where's the evidence for the rest of us? He can't provide it. He's asking us to believe him. That's also fine, but call a belief a belief, don't call it something you know or have discovered yourself. You can't criticize science being skeptical on the one hand and accept pure lands without scientific evidence to show us on the other. Alan Wallace can be very frustrating. He attacks anything new, like targeted brain stimulation, psychedelic research or any other non-traditional tools, has avoided discussing the massive implications of artificial intelligence, and is fine with neuroscience as long as it doesn't intrude upon Buddhist 'territory'. It is quite apparent that he is worried that neuroscience will soon overpower all the sophisticated, time-consuming, extremely demanding teachings he's spent decades learning and he doesn't like it. He also really doesn't want to deal with the philosophical challenges posed by AI. I would cut him some slack, as he is 72 years old, but Jack Kornfield is 78 and just this year had a conversation with Sam Altman of OpenAI about how AI and Buddhism will converge. Shinzen Young is also 78 and he is developing a device in collaboration with a neuroscientist to target specific brain regions in order to rapidly accelerate the spiritual path. And many similar technologies are being worked on in labs around the world. I can confidently say that without psychedelics, neurofeedback, brain stimulation, energy healing, *everything * I could find, I would have gotten nowhere on the path, the obstacles I face are too steep. Maybe 5% of society can actually follow everything Alan teaches in his talks and books. It's never going to wake up the world, dude, it's way too slow, and we don't have enough time. So I take Alan with a gigantic dose of salt.