The Illumination of Primordial Wisdom
D3S2 - Quantum Physics and the Dreamlike World
Lama Alan · 124 minutes · recorded January 1, 2021
Against Stephen Hawking's picture of human beings as chemical scum on a little planet, Lama Alan Wallace says there is no happy middle ground between materialism and Dzogchen. He asks when anything actually came into existence, taking Mount Everest and the Higgs boson as his examples, then reads Niels Bohr and Schrodinger, who say physics cannot state what really exists, and living physicists who say space and time have gone. From the perspective of pristine awareness, this is not like a dream, it is one.
Consciousness and science The nature of mind Dzogchen Shamatha (calm abiding)