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The neuroscientists, health care professionals and others who are persuaded to lend their names and credibility to "dialogues" with the Dalai Lama and other Vajaryana folk need to keep in mind that the Dalai Lama and these other tulkus, rinpoches, etc are the products of an ancient closed society.
The Dalai Lama is not a simple monk. He is a monarch in exile, and more than any monarch in exile, because he is considered the embodiment of the Buddha of compassion.
The culture of Tibet could not produce science. It was, in Karl Popper's sense, a closed society.
Its religion is based on non falsifiable assertions.
The work of science can only be done by constructing hypotheses which are falsifiable, and which can therefore be tested and then if refuted, be superseded by models with have better predictive power.
And unlike Vajrayana, which conceals its core teachings in secrecy and allows it only to intiates, science is based on open communication.
In mantra practice, which is a core part of vajrayana, the practitioner puts him or herself into alignment with a grid, a map, eg a mandala.
Modern science is based not on intiation or revelation but information tested and shared through open communication. Ones mentors are not considered embodied buddhas, but as human beings who happen to have expertise that is not magical but can be taught through ordinary expository means/
Modern science began in the early modern period precisely through the creation of journals, societies and agreements on use of language and terminology whose meaning could be understood across frontiers.
So scientists should take care that they are not being used as stage props in the media campaign orchestrated by the Dalai Lama.
It would be good for them to read the descriptions of what Younghusband and his army found when they entered Lhasa. The consition of prisoners horrified them -- in this blessed Buddhist kingdom.
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DI Dialogue Ireland) is simply reacting to years of being fooled by all the Tibetan Buddhists who came on here , seemingly exposing Sogyal’s abuse, but when the ‘roots of his abuse’ were exposed, they all, without exception, ran for cover back to their Lamas. That’s it;.
And I believe he could hear what I was saying, because he wasn’t a Tibetan Lamaism; their ears are blocked, their eyes are blinded by the Lamas, purposefully over the years, because of their cult-control inside their sanghas. He was also open and not conditioned by New age bullshit , influenced by this TantricHinduVedicLamaism, because of decades of dealing with them, to actually hear what I posted, and I am very grateful for that. There is no anti-cult site in the west that has been able to hear this, because they have all been conditioned by Dalai Lama ‘Santa Claus” memes in western political infuences and the counseling psychology professions who needed another ‘trick in their bag of tricks’ called ‘mediation’, I bet they are recruiting and leading more people into TB these days, than anything else, thanks to there being purposely duped by the Tibetan Lamas. We now know that psychology really is a ‘soft science’ as is neuropsychology, two of the most duped professional groups that are having a profound influence on spreading this cult of Lamaism in the name of “mindfulness training”. And they don’t even know it . They are another group we might question why we would go to them for advice or help anymore these days since they could be so easily thought controlled themselves and are actually perptuating a sexually abusive cult and don’t know it.