Nature of the Mind
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- His Holiness the Dalai lama talks on the "Nature of the Mind" at the University of California Santa Barbara Events Center on April 24th, 2009. (www.dalailama.com)
Video courtesy of University of California Santa Barbara
This is the most influential man on earth! Long live the Dalai Lama! And have a FREE TIBET! Live long peace!
Free Europe also!
Im lucky that i have his holiness in my lifetime.
Om Mani Padme Hum
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Om Jambhala Jalendraya Svaha
I'm lucky to be able to listen such peerless teachings at the peace and comfort of my home and at anytime of day and night. This is great opportunity accorded due to the confluence of conditions like his Holiness, CZcams, technologies, the precious human rebirth, etc
I am happy that I M Buddhist 💜
@@DolmaTsering7 better you say “lucky to be in dharma path” or “lucky to recognize dharma”.
Just listening to the Dalai Lama speak makes me feel more peaceful and optimistic!
Just listening to you makes me feel more peaceful and optimistic!
Same here 🙏🙏🙏
It's great to hear His Holiness properly translated by someone with good vocabulary and philosophical acumen.
Thank you 🙏 Jimpala...Always Translating His Holiness Teachings very Precisely🙏
How blessed to receive this teaching via CZcams.
Wake up !
Incredibly knowledgeable, the Ocean of Wisdom indeed.
Your Holiness! I am 27 now and If it is possible, I will offer the rest of my life to you and wish you may live at least 150 years old. If Lord Buddha, father Jesus and Alha, any of them have the power then please take mine life expectancy offer it to His Holiness so that he will serve al sentient beings many more years. I have no a single moment of regret for what I have prayed to day.🙏🙏🙏
I agree. We are blessed to receive such teachings. I feel great gratitude.
I don't .... you're lazy and stupid - don't rely on others to "find your path" find your own...
He is such a beautiful soul on earth long live His holiness Dalai Lama 🙏
Best part is when he passes his soul will reincarnate and we can see the beauty again :)
light of asia...our gratefulness that he is with us in India.
Long Live his holiness 14th Dalai Lama 🙏
Thanks again for sharing such wonderful teachings from his holiness to all.
gotta love Jinpa he is so good
yes,I also feel he is the best Translator among the translators His Holiness has.
We are fortunate enough to have a spiritual guru like His Holiness Dalai Lama for guidance to peaceful & compassionate humanity to end the missaries of world.
Whenever I receive n listen teaching from HH the Dalai lama I feel very fortunate n helps to control my mind from negative thoughts n activities.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏OH FRIENDS THIS GREAT MASTER ALWAYS MAKES OTHERS HAPPY. THE HOPE WHICH HE GIVES IS ETERNAL.HE IS TOO TOO TOO PURE . WE ARE VERY LUCKY BECAUSE OF HIS HEAVENLY SPEECH. I HAVE NO WORDS BECAUSE OF TEARS 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
i pray to god buddha give us several Dalai lamas that we can get knowledge and compassion and make world house of peace.
Lord Buddha is not a god.
buddha is not a god !!!!!
Great teachings from a great man. He is also quite funny :)
Respected Wise one thankyou very much for YOURS loving kindness thanks and regards Iqbal Memon
Thank you for posting. Profound teaching from a rare and precious teacher. Blessings
Respected Wise one thankyou very much and LONGLIVE regards Iqbal Memon
I come to this video again and again. Thank You a lot Holiness
The tradition of Dalai Lama speaks great wisdom. We are all very fortunate to have the force reincarnated through the impulse of grace. It is not one single person but a tradition. We are up to the 14th reincarnation now. Such humanity, such peace. Peace is not just the absence of war. It is a state of permanent quiet and sillness. This is what the tradition of the Dalai Lama embues. Permanent peace.
World 🌎 is a better place because of teachers like the --His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Encouraging intelligence, intelligent investigation, compassion and ethics which ARE NECESSARY for having a collaborative, productive and harmonious society and world.
As someone who was raised a Catholic can I just say what a pleasure it is to find a religious person who takes questions of life, death, the soul and human happiness seriously.
HH Dalai Lama is now more than 80 years old, and I think its not good to arrange long-time duration lectures for him to deliver ! For example, the lectures can be of one duration for each day . . . . . May HH Dalai Lama have a long life . . . . Lots of regards and blessings from him
I feel very lucky to share this lifetime with His Holiness ! Just been able to hear him and even thru the screen I can feel his Holy Presence. Very grateful ! Gives all the meaning to this reincarnation.
Long live His Holiness, peace to Tibetans!
That's Right My nigga
Outstanding teaching 🙏🏻 May his holiness and his interpreter gain great enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Long live his holiness May his teaching flourish all over the the world🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹
Thank you Your Holiness for your dedication to bring happiness and peace to the world
what a great human being!
always wanted to hear his voice
Thank you so much His Holiness for your profound words on nature of mind.
nicely said! i was asking a lot of whys in my practice of Buddhism and i concur with yr statement that the more i read into science the more the words of the Buddha ring true. happy practicing =)
OM MANI PADME HUM...!! EMAHO...!! Long life prayers to H.H. THE DALAI LAMA...!!
Long live the dalia lama
All these vids of the Dalai Lama are wonderful. He is a very strong, smart and lovely soul. I literally ran into him in 2000 backstage as a black car pulled up and two men in black came out, I was greeted with a smile and hands in a prayer. I have never felt so much joy in a person.
Just remember that there's only one thing that's truly holy and divine, and that's truth. Unsullied and free from corruption or distortion, truth is what will always be pure and undoubted. Truth is what sets you free!
In life, pursue happiness, liberty, and truth.
Yes The Four Noble Truths...
Tenzin Gyatso, "Ocean of Wisdom"
We can all become live very long lives if we all agree upon peace. There would be no negative emotional waves to feed our mind with. We all have the ability.
Tibetan is a really beautiful language :)
His Holiness the Ocean of Wisdom and the most influential person in the world. Great teaching.
talk begins at 14:00 after the intro
Such a wonderful teaching, thank you very-very much! :)
I feel also lucky to see His Holiess Dalai Lama.
He is not only compassionate but also very learned one.
Thank you for uploading... peace.
Thank you.
Long live H.H. Dalai Lama. I wish his health always be excellent to help, to lead Buddhists all around the world.
I Thank you your Holiness for being my compassion when I had none. You're a such a awakening in my life. I am feeling very grateful and thankful and blessed and loving and awareness in being able to learn and study my mind and energy and so forth. I am unavailable loving awareness state because of your Holiness teaching.
Love. Pure love!!!
I turned on the Closed Captions. I had a good laugh.
Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏 His Holiness.. i got an insight into the nature of mind and I hope it will help me to train my mind to be loving and compassionate at all times
The more I listen to His Holiness Teaching, more I understand the nature of mind and more I can train my mind to be happy🙏🏽💐 May I always born as your true follower🙏🏽💐 💐🙏🏽
Really gets you thinking. We need to come to grips with the fact that everything that we perceive is quite literally inside of our minds. What you experience as reality is nothing more than the sum of everything you perceive through your senses, information which is processed in the brain. Reality could look completely different or it could simply not exist "out there". *Solipsism* suggests that we can never prove that reality exists independently of ourselves. It is impossible, *because the only tools we can use to figure that out are our senses and the brain, things that are made out of the reality we are trying to prove or disprove. It would be like trying to bite your own teeth*. When you dream, you do not question the dream, you simply accept that reality and live out the experience. It is only when you wake up that you realize it wasn't "real". But what is real? This moment is inside your head as much as the dream you had last night. That doesn't mean that it is not real. It doesn't mean that it does not matter. It is still a very real experience. Once you come to this conclusion you realize that the nature of reality is purely mental. Not materialistic and mechanical as we previously thought. If you think about it, matter isn't what we think it is. It is not physical. Think about the way physics breaks it down. Eventually you come to the physical world's "building blocks", very small particles that cannot be broken down anymore. Physics even comes to the conclusion that these very small particles are in turn made out of *point particles, which are particles that have no spatial extension, they are zero-dimensional, take up zero space*. Particles do not simply break down infinitely. There isn't an infinite amount of infinitely small particles. In other words, matter is made out of quite literally nothing. Logically we have to get to this nothingness eventually. Pure nothingness. You can say matter is made out of energy but this energy in turn must come from somewhere else. The Big Bang is no answer as we could ask the same question about it. Where did it come from? People don't even understand what energy really is. When most people think about energy they think about a substance, something tangible like fire. That is not it. Scientifically, *energy is described simply as potential*. The potential of a given system to do do work. *Not a substance*. That eliminates energy as an answer for the base of "physical" reality. Because the physical world is ultimately made of nothing, the only logical conclusion is that it is in fact mental, because the only way you and I experience it is mentally, and so do any other conscious beings that may exist.
Ultimately, it is likely that the universe could be just a great thought, as many wise men have said. Following this logic, we can then come to the conclusion that you are the creator as much as the universe is your maker. Maybe the universe simply could not exist without your awareness of it. This would suggest that *the world isn't just a machine that exists out there, but it is a mental landscape. We think we cannot see directly see inside our minds, but the world we experience every day is the mind. All aspects of it, such as space, matter and time, are aspects of your own mind*. *This doesn't have to mean that other people don't really exist. Maybe other individuals are simply different points of view. Different perspectives on the world. The universe looking at itself from every possible point of perspective, having every possible experience of itself. That would even include animals and any other life form that has developed some level of perception*. Obviously this only leads to more questions, like everything else. Does the world make you, or do you make it? If it makes you what makes it? I believe it is both. The universe depends on you as much as you depend on it. *The largest galaxies could not exist without you, and you would not exist without them*. You are dependent on the elements created in massive stars, yet to you, these stars would not exist, if you didn't exist. Don't think about this reality as "really out there", remember that we simply cannot prove that the things that we perceive are independent of ourselves. Like I said before, that would be like *tyring to bite your own teeth, or touching the fingertip of your finger with that same finger*. Makes no sense. Remember that *if matter is fundamentally empty, then it cannot be physical*. Ultimately everything is one. Clearly this is all hypothetical and unproved by science, but like I said, it simply cannot be proved by science. Never will be. But possible nonetheless. I realize most people don't have the attention span to go read all that, but I fell like putting my thougts out there. Too blazed.
Guitarbage. What a condescending way to try to offend me with the pipe comment ha. It doesn't offend me at all. I actually prefer joints. I said people have poor attention span, because it is true. Most people don't really care. By the way, I do try to learn things about the world every day. Hence why I watch these types of videos. I am also an avid reader, a drummer, and a computer programmer in training. I like weed, music and videos such as this one that inspire philosophical thought. What I "rambled" about is basic philosophical theory introduced by the father of philosophy and logic. Socrates. You might have heard of him. Solipsisim is a logical and psychological theory that cannot be proved or disproved, which is what makes it so interesting. I do add that it could be possible that other beings with conscious perception exist, which would be a way for the universe to know itself from every possible perspective. I like to smoke cannabis and write a lot. I find it intellectually stimulating. Even if it's a comment on youtube that not many will read, I find it cool to share my opinion on the nature of the mind and the world, to whoever is out there that may be interested. You probably didn't know that many great minds were substance users. Such as Steve Jobs, Carl Sagan, and Freud. It's alright though. It is expected that a lot of people feel uncomfortable with these kinds of hypotheses, because they suggest that their dear material existence is nothing but a mental, more ethereal experience. It is still very real. Real just defines what you perceive and process in your brain. Once you really understand it, you might find that the kind of experience I describe can be even more valuable and interesting than your boring, solid and meaningless existence. What I "rambled" about is purely hypothetical kids, don't go jumping out the window thinking you can fly because of a comment. Hey look! It looks like you too learned something new today, Guitarbage.
Guitarbage + I'm hoping to have a productive conversation with you, unless you feel my lengthy response is a "waste of time". Nothing in the world is a waste of time and you'll be surprised when you learn things in unexpected places. First of all, whether you learn these theories in "intro philosophy", the internet, or just some book, the fact of the matter is that solipsism, like many other interesting theories, deals with the fabric of existence itself. It puts into question your pre-conceived notions of the universe, and it is therefore at least worth considering.
Having said that, the thoughts I shared are directed to people who watched this video and felt like reading comments, not to people who "don't have the luxury" to think philosophical thoughts. That is just laughable! Everyone has time to think. We are not talking about a documentary that shows the extreme poverty of the people of Somalia. We are discussing philosophy on a video about philosophy. *I assure you that if anyone has two hours to dedicate to a video about the nature of mind, then they have the luxury to think about and consider theories about the nature of the universe.* Another thing is that you simply feel annoyed by me being too blazed, or by the way I expressed such thoughts. Well, I like to think the world should be a free place where people can do as they please. Also, if people don't feel stimulated enough with what they get every day in the world then that is their problem. I didn't share those thoughts in order to provide some sort of relief to those who feel the world is not enough, as you may think. I shared because the contents of this video brought those thoughts up in my head and I felt like contributing to the conversation of such an extensive topic, as is the mind and consciousness.
You wanna talk stimulation? If anything, the philosopher who came up with this hypothesis was probably more stimulated by the world he lived in than most other people. I believe that this stimulation would cause an individual to question the nature of the world around him in order to understand it better. Such a curiosity about the world is what woud lead you to develop theories about yourself and your surroundings. That's scientists and philosophers alike. Actually, technical science would not exist without philosophy. First comes philosohical thought, then the means to prove or disprove those hypotheses. The fact that the hypothesis at hand cannot be proved or disproved, while being perfectly possible and suggesting what it does, makes it all the more attractive. *If there are people who find comfort in the theory of solipsism, and think the world is some illusion, that is unfortunate for them*. I find myself perplexed by the world, hence why I like to study and discuss these topics. I can almost guarantee that if this had been a video about black holes, my long rant would have been about black holes. Just like I enjoy writing, getting blazed and learning as much as possible, I enjoy having discussions with people about things that don't concern the average population. Outside of the internet, the only person I can really have these discussions with is my brother. Everyone else thinks I should be more focused on getting wasted every weekend and having sex with a different girl every day. I find those people pathetic. I'm glad we got that out of the way.
It seems to me like you do not really understand what I talked about if you think the implications of that hypothesis are "egomaniacal", or suggest that the world does not matter. The world matters either way, because it is the only thing you experience every day. If you read the whole thing, you understood I wasn't talking about common solipsism. What I described can't even be called a variation of it because it differs in its definition. I gave an introduction to regular solipsism and then added a twist to it. This is where I'm coming from: You cannot deny that it is scary and uncomfortable to accept solipsism as it is, since it suggests you are alone. But the reason I like the ideas I described is that it seemed to me that *it would be such a waste for existence to be reduced to only one individual mind*. Why would the universe limit itself so much? Think about it, what you and I observe every day in nature is infinite variation. Every single galaxy is unique. The same goes for stars, planets, trees, plants, grass leaves, living beings, etc. You'll not find one leaf that looks exactly identical to another. It's true you can find twins but not even those are perfectly identical. If there is life in other planets, it could be something completely different form what you and I know, depending on the conditions in which it evolves. *Just as existence includes ever possible variation of everything in nature, it could include every possbile variation of conscious perspectives, so it can have every possible experience of itself*. You and I are just different perspectives on existence. Whether mind creates it or the Big Bang creates it, makes no difference. We do not know the origin of things and probably never will. The Big Bang must have been caused by something else. I find that to be an awesome idea, and it does not invalidate other beings capable of perception. It doesn't really invalidate the world, it just invalidates the belief that it is "out there". I'm almost done.
To finish off, the problem I have with modern physics is that not even the physicists behind it know what is going on. The question I am trying to ask is: What is the ultimate fundament of matter? The fabric of reality? Most people would say energy. I said this in my main comment. Most people don't know what energy is. It is not a substance. It is not a tangible thing. Energy is described as the potential of a system to do work. Like an impulse. But what causes the impulse? As I described, physics came up with a theoretical "point particle", a zero dimensional particle which takes up no space. They do that because they know that particles dividing themselves infinitely is illogical. But particles being fundamentally made of point particles, which take up zero space, is also nonsensical. It implies that matter is fundamentally made out of nothingness. My question is, where does it come from? What is its prime origin? You can ask the same question about the Big Bang or God. To me, point particles being the fundament of reality means that reality is simply not physical, not really out there. *Matter exists, but it is not matter in the sense you think you know. That is the only logical conclusion.*. I'm not sure there is another way of putting it. I could go on an on talking about the implications of consciousness in the universe and the paradox of existence, but I feel like this is getting a little long. Ultimately, the only thing you can really be certain of are your own thoughts, because denying a thought would be to think a thought. Lastly, I never claimed these where "enlightened thoughts". You're saying I wasted your time with my comment, and that puts me a little off. I didn't waste your time. You wasted your time by making the decision of reading it. You're not paying for a product. This isn't some lesson you were obliged to take. Reading it was your decision. If you got to the end of this, I do thank you for reading, and I certainly hope you were able to get something out of a fellow human and his perspective on things.
I do like your point of view. It makes a lot of sense.
Jose, thank you, glad it resonates with you
That was a wicked bit of information, thanks for taking the time to write it.
truly inspiring
I watch this again and again to learn thoroughly.
I keep being amazed how this spiritual leader has such a sophisticated and applaudable perspective on modern sciences whilst still being able to connect it ever so elegantly with spirituality. A sincere embracement of modern science from a religious leader. For this, he deserves all the respect!
You have the Dalai Lama on stage and you sit and ramble for nearly 15 minutes? Only in (academic) America.
Excelent!! Thank
HIS HOLINESS THE 14TH DALAI LAMA GIVES PRECIOUS TEACHINGS BUT MANY PERSONS DON’T SPEAK ENGLISH. A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HIS HOLINESS SAYS AND PUT IT INTO PRACTICE. THANK YOU SO MUCH TO TRANSLATE IN OTHER LANGUAGES HIS HOLINESS TEACHINGS.
As there are many persons who would like to understand what His Holiness says and put it into practice but they don’t speak English. Thank you so much to translate in other languages His Holiness teachings.
great lovely, thanks for sharing
thank you , thank you , thank you ,
i really enjoyed your teaching and i appreciated it . again thank you, thank you, thank you.._ /!\_.
I have watched many of these lectures at universities by His Holiness... the chancellor gave the nicest introduction I have heard... ✌️ thank you sir... my deepest respect for your work and help with the Tibetan people... refugees in particular.. and for being so very nice..
✌️ Peace ✌️
❤️ please ❤️
🙏❤️🙏
tashi delek
The ocean of wisdom, amazing! 😍😍😍
salutations to Shiva,Patanjali, shakyamuni and Dalai lama. may you bless me for a fast expedition of my accumulated karma and let me know the ancient one.
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His Holiness should really make great effort to visit those needing to hear his voice in the inner cities of America(s), Europe, and Asia where those are less affluent than University heads and members seen in this audience. Bless.
All the organizer are very lucky , you have got such golden chance with His Holiness Dalai Lama. Please continue your holy works. Thank you.
His bows 🙏🏼 He embodies them, and his virtuous qualities, one to bow to 🙏🏼
Very Beautiful
Sitting by the fire, staring as if to find, a ladder going higher, to levels beyond the mind.
Thank You for your teaching Dalai Lama
lovely teacher and great religious leader I really love the Dalai Lama very much
Truly fascinating, but I would greatly appreciate subtitles and/or a transcript.
Hell, I'd even pay for it!
Por favor es necesario se permitan subtítulos en español !!!
Gratitud.
Accepting my situation in the middle of psychological torture kept me comfortable
in the face of those who tried to destroy me.
Now we are watching the talk the great one
brilliant! i can seeeeeeeeee :)
Thank you for explaining tantra philosophy.
Thank you.
Blessed be.
Long Live His Holiness 🙏🙏🙏💐💐💐
14:10 dalai lama begins
If an Alien civilization ever want to quantify the ego of the human species, the youtube comments will be a rich data source.
you sir, deserve an award for that comment xD
One could argue that the egos of some people on youtube aren't quantifiable :P
i think we are the aliens :) also if you want to meet another sentient being not like you just walk into the closest forest adn say hi to the animals :)
iscariot project alien is a subjective word, meaning outside from the planet in which the being that states it says it.
So True : )
So peaceful and educational to listen to.
He is always funny like a kid. That is what I love about him. He is still child-like and doesn't give a hoot about whether we revere him. See how he supplicates to the audience as well so humbly as if he is acknowledging the audience's souls. I think he will make a funny friend.
where is the afternoon session..? thumbs up if you also had same question. hopefully someone may reply..
Does itMatter, I found it! czcams.com/video/0ENfuiHGkEk/video.html
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Hysterically funny. Holy whip, no holy pain, 😂🤣
absolutely right twice princepal, nice introduction speech you're givving there for the audience , I've never in my whole life have met any people kinder than the Tibetan People, lovely speech, thank you!!!
It's amazing to me that he can remain so peaceful and good-natured even with everything that has happened to him and his country. It is a kind of tragedy I don't think I could quite imagine. It is hard not to get mad when I think about it.
+Pazuzu Jones (pazuzu126) Of course he would remain peaceful and good-natured. He is been living an opulent life based on lies and propaganda.
If not for the greater and lesser teachings of Buddha, I would be something worse than Satan. Now I'm only Lucifer trying to work his way back into Heaven!
really? How so?
Satan is a metaphor representing knowledge gone wrong; a perversion of the truth. Lucifer represents the being that holds the brightest knowledge. All things return from which it came. Anyone whose been to Heaven and left would be stupid to not want to return. I took all the trips and fell off every fall. Now, I'm an expert at getting, going and coming up! Thanks to the teachings of The Elders/Lesser and The Masses/Greater I now know how to: Row/Propel, Row/Think, Row/Feel, your Boat/Spaceship/Lotus/Mind, gently/Awareness down the Stream/Flow/Peerless, and merrily/proton, merrily/neutron, merrily/electron, merrily/neutrino, life is but a Dream/Manifestation/Cultivation. When you connect the myths, legends and teachings to science, you've arrived. When you can apply that science, you're out of this world :)
totally get u brother.. although i tought i understood cause of the experiences i had, it turnd to see that i was all alone dealing with my on shadow, and every sincronicity moment i had was showing me i was the devil, if i didnt said anything i was hurting myself inside and if i said i was in someway disrespecting people.. it was horrible.. jesus was/is/will for ever be my way, thanks lord.. glad to know u found ur way dude
I control my emotions. My emotions don't control me :)
You didn't control your emotion or opposite. Just nature and follow them.
What emotions you control best?
But if you follow them without discretion it looks like your emotions control you.
What you mean by "beyond"?
You don't control your emotions. You just choose whether to act on them or not.
Amazing! Thank you!
🙏🙏🙏Long live H.H the Dalai Lama
I am not a Buddha but even if I would die from it, I would never eat an animal. And I know an old friend, very sick, that still refuses to eat medication tested on animals. So...
Pan you are real saint and so is your friend.....your compassion far exceeds even the noblest of men and women....
you are a buddha you need to go in and find it within you its so fucking simple
Annush , Buddhist path is middle way where anybody can practice according to their time, energy, ability , the practice is more come along with fun, Joy, empathy, compassion and so on,
Skip to 14:00
thank you🙏
Kyab su chay ho long live his holiness the 14th Dalai lama...........
His holiness is my role model.