I can’t believe I found this
Dear friends,
This is truly an interesting read. I will not explain too much but I will let you contemplate deeper. I would highly recommend for you to contemplate deeper and do more research. It does open our minds so much more understanding these ten thoughts.
Theories 2, 4 and 7 really attract me. What is amazing is these three theories are explained clearly in the Vajra Yogini tantras that can only be explained more in-depth after initiation. Vajra Yogini’s tantra goes into much more in-depth on these three theories. There are specific meditations in Vajra Yogini’s tantra that complement, accentuate and help you to realize solipsism, logos and ‘brain the jar’ theories. I really am stunned how these three theories match nearly perfectly to what is explained in the holy tantras of Vajra Yogini. Vajra Yogini tantra is ‘designed’ to change our reality by using our mind to focus on the truth of existence. How we exist is not at all how we thought. By understanding the truth of how we really exist and not exist, we find liberation from our own self created harmful tapestries. I am looking forward to explaining these much more deeper and on a experiential level in the future to Vajra Yogini students. Thinking about this excites me greatly because it opens our minds much more and will benefit students who want to think deeper and understanding the reality of our existence-especially consciousness. Our reality has never been real. That is why we always get disappointed knowingly and unknowingly. Living in false realities drives us to continuously destroy the delicate balance within us and around us. These teachings in Vajra Yogini will help us tremendously to break through this false thinking. I really like solipsism as it really is mentioned clearly in Vajra Yogini’s tantra. I am blown away to find this here. I am surprised that Western philosophers and thinkers from such a completely different background have the same thoughts as in the Vajra Yogini tantras. It is identical. I guess truth is one.
Tsem Rinpoche
10 Mind-Blowing Theories That Will Change Your Perception of the World
Reality isn’t as plain and simple as we often like to think. Several things we take for granted as true are, in reality, patently false. Scientists and philosophers have done their best to overthrow the theories of common sense—as you’ll see by the ten examples below:
Has this list opened your mind and stretched the possibilities of your perceptions?
Solipsism (/ˈsɒlɨpsɪzəm/; from Latin solus, meaning “alone”, and ipse, meaning “self”)[1] is the philosophical idea that only one’s own mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one’s own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind. As a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist.~Wikipedia Encyclopedia
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These theories are very interesting. I find the Multiverse Theory a poignant way of looking at things and even perhaps, at our life. It seems to me, the theory can be a cross between the the Decision Tree concept and the Probability Theory. There would be multiple of us living our lives in parallel but dealing with a certain fate. Each life can make a wildly different decision but at some point (time) in life, a same conclusion would bequested. Condense that into a single body of this lifetime; we can have fantastic ideas, noble ambitions, the drive or the energy to kick into action, but sometimes, the end result is the same.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this deep thoughts about our existence and profound theories on perception of realities by renown great minds through the centuries.
We would need sometime to digest these valuable knowledge before we could understand the true essence of our creation or existence.Our mind is still clouded by many veils of ignorance which prevent us to seek our true source of existence.
We certainly hope that we would have the rare chance to engage in such rare and precious practice of Vajrayogini to open up our mind towards the path of Enlightenment…..
Thank you Rinpoche for this information.
I really like point 2 on the Solipsism. This is really true that what we deem that is there may not be there, and what we think is real may not be real as well.
I have also personally experimented with something similar whereby through imagination, things that I perceive become real to me but not real in reality. It shows the power of our mind and how important it is to always train our minds so that it will not be fickle in order to help us to receive the holy Vajrayogini practice in later dates.
Through the point it has also reinforced to me that our minds are able to fluctuate, because we allow it to be. This is so by not being firm with ourselves and catching ourselves when we are in the wrong. Allowing us to drift further and slip deeper into samsara.
It is said that these three theories of Solipsism, Plato and Logos, and Brain the Jar, are more susceptical with the indept study of the Vajrayogini tantras that can only be explained more in-dept by Rinpoche. It seem this matches perfectly to what is explained in the holy tantras of Vajrayogini. By using our mind to focus on the truth of how we really exist, and not exist, will benefit students who want to think deeper to understand into the reality of existence-especially consciousness. Our reality has never been real; living in false realities drives us to continously destroy the delicate balance within and around us, as said. These teachings in Vajrayogini by Rinpoche is said to help us trmendously to break through this false thinking. Once and for all, practitioners will be looking forward anxiously to hear Rinpoche’s expert explaination much more deeper in the near future to this exciting and valuable theory of Vajra Yogini’s practice. Thank you once again Rinpoche for your usual compassionate, kind and deep concern.
Dear Rinpoche,
Thank you so much for sharing this. It has helped me understand a more that our happiness and suffering exists at the same time and because we are constantly more aware of suffering we missed out the happiness side of us, which makes us delve more to suffering to find non-existent happiness in this suffering side…I feel sorry for myself..
Interesting theories and I have read a little about such theories that are based on the Madhyamaka Prasangika view of emptiness. These are big words and I am still struggling with the meanings behind the terminology. Perhaps, I need to read a little more to familiarize with these philosophical meanings. As far as I recall, Madhyamaka view is that reality is empty of true and findable existence. Then, there is the two truths of conventional and ultimate truth. Conventional truth concerns the very real world that we perceive and live in.
However, Madhyamaka deals entirely on the establishing the ultimate truth. Prasangika is a systematized method at arriving at the ultimate truth. One method employed is the process of logically coming to a conclusion by removing all impossibilities. Reading these theories have sparked my interest in Madhyamaka again. I have not read enough on the Madhyamaka view to know if it concerns consciousness. Thank you Rinpoche for such deep and stimulating blog post always.
Thanks… Rinpoche…
Early in the morning… u seriously wake me up….
I will keep it in my mind…. and need some time to digest it…
If the brain in a jar theory holds any water, wouldn’t the brain, after tasting sensory perception, be driven mad by it’s deprivation upon change of scenario? Example, when the mind goes into bardo, where I assume there is no sensory perception at all. Is that why when we are reborn in another life, we forget the previous?
Very cool will take a year to digest.
This man thinks beyond anyone
Have ever studied
謝謝仁波切的苦心一再企图喚醒我们，告诉我们真正的心識世界才是真实的，现在的躯殻世界只是一个短暂的虚幻，我们生俱與来就习惯的沉侵在那个所谓带着自己的品牌“我“的躯壳世界，忙得不亦乐乎。希望自己能有勇气的走出这个夢，心識觉醒，用心識存活。
I really like #2. It’s philispohical ideas like these that drew me to Buddhism & psychology when I was young. We shape our preceptions of the world through our senses & experiences but they are unreliable. The wrong perception of emptiness binds us. Our lack of understanding of interdependence binds us. We should realize that emptiness is not simply a mere nothingness, nor merely the other side of the coin of interdependence, nor even simply a state beyond all conceptuality. Emptiness while lacking any limiting characteristics such as color, shape, size, etc, is not empty of it’s own nature, the radiant clarity of mind, which includes all aspects of reality and which we refer to as clear light. In this empty radiant clarity all positive qualities arise out of the clear light nature, the buddha nature.
Dear Rinpoche,
This is really amazing, the fact that it says that we are only one who is sure of our own thinkings. we exist in our own consciousness and while the outside world is just like the shadow. Wow!! thank you Rinpoche
If my brains are not fried already.. my mind is definitely blown!
I have come across many times such “debates” and discussions of the theories mentioned.. but always never place much thoughts or emphasis to them.
What amazes me is that philosophers and Plato all came so close to what Vajrayogini tantra contains and Rinpoche said it so too..
Definitely something worth to think deeper.. and may i have the good merits to receive Vajrayogini’s teachings from Rinpoche.
Thank u