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Dreaming of Reality: Sleeping, Dreaming & Dying in Tibetan Buddhism

D2S3 - What Materialism Cannot Explain

Lama Alan · 99 minutes · recorded January 1, 2019

The Burmese method of mindfulness of breathing, attention on the rise and fall of the abdomen, chosen here to enhance stability without losing the underlying ease. Lama Alan Wallace tells how Stephen LaBerge's recurring dream monster kept coming back until he gazed into its eyes and thought, you're just like me, wishing for happiness, at which it dissolved into his heart and never came back. Most of the teaching is a case against materialism: no theory of consciousness in 150 years, and the luminous ether as his parallel.

Consciousness and science Death and dying Dream yoga Dreams and sleep Relaxation Sleep and rest Mindfulness of breathing

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