AlanWallace.org; via Buddhist Geek VincentHorn.com
B. Alan Wallace (Roads to Bliss) |
“That should throw you back for a moment if you’ve not quite thought of it in those terms. This is bizarre. The mind is that with which you’re doing all the science. It would be like somebody giving you an instrument and saying, 'Use this instrument; you will discover a lot of things' then waiting 300 years before you actually look at the instrument itself.”
This video and quote come from B. Alan Wallace’s talk “Toward the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences.”
The cool thing is that he is giving this talk to Google employees! Vince Horn met Alan in July and had a chance to listen to this talk in Boulder. It’s an excellent talk on the history of the physical and biological sciences in the West.
His theory on how the mind sciences are about to go through an equally profound revolution like the revolutions related to Galileo and Darwin in the physical and biological sciences respectively.
Meditation, of course, is first person introspection. So it -- refining the instrument -- has a lot to do with empirical Western sciences. Reading Wallace’s superb book The Attention Revolution goes a long way to examining the instrument as well.
Who in the world is?
B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D. has been a scholar-practitioner of Buddhism since 1970, at one time serving as translator for the 14th Dalai Lama. He seeks ways to integrate Buddhist contemplative practices with Western science to advance the study of the mind. He is the founder and president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies (sbinstitute.com).
(Think and Be Happy) How are mental wellbeing and hedonic pleasure to be
distinguished? What types of mental, verbal, physical behaviors support and/or
undermine the cultivation of mental balance? How does it relate to wellbeing?
ABSTRACT
Galileo and some nearby planets |
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