Dwelling in the Heart of Reality
D6S3 - The Brain Cannot Generate Consciousness, and Eva Natanya's Path
Lama Alan · Eva Natanya · 86 minutes · recorded January 1, 2020
Closing questions, then a final guided practice. Lama Alan argues that emergent properties of physical phenomena are always physical, so there is no evidence that the brain generates consciousness, and that technological access to the substrate consciousness would liberate nobody. Eva Natanya describes her path from Zen through the Gelug tradition into Vajrayana. She closes by leading his fourfold vision quest: what you long to become, what help you need, what must change in you, and what you will offer.
Dream yoga Tantra and Vajrayana The nature of mind Dzogchen Shamatha (calm abiding)