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B. Alan Wallace

(Bruce Alan Wallace)

1950 CE –

Translator, Tibetan Buddhist scholar, professor, and consciousness-studying scientist; Alan Wallace blended his 14 years as a monk and ordination by the 14th Dalai Lama with his scientific, research projects into understanding the nature of mind. He’s written 19+ books, many articles and papers, and translated innumerable Buddhist scriptures into understandable modern texts. However, his inclinations tend to gravitate more toward the words than the sense, the belief rather than the personal experience.

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Buddhism with an Attitude

Contemplative Science

Quotes by B. Alan Wallace (8 quotes)

“Our ideas about success are based on unexamined assumptions. Fixation on these subverts our best efforts leading either to counterfeit success or true frustration.”

from Buddhism with an Attitude

Themes: Success Progress

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“Compassion without wisdom is bondage. Wisdom without compassion is bondage. Compassion and wisdom are the two wings of enlightenment.”

from Buddhism with an Attitude

Themes: Compassion Wisdom

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“The primary realization of insight is emptiness.”

from Buddhism with an Attitude

Themes: Emptiness

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“if you are deluded about your own nature, who you are, and act on the basis of that delusion, you will constantly suffer repercussions.”

from Buddhism with an Attitude

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“Our unexamined sense of immortality teams up with the 8 mundane concerns to shape a working hypothesis that death is so far in the future that it is functionally irrelevant.”

from Buddhism with an Attitude

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“Despite centuries of modern philosophical and scientific research into the nature of the mind, at present there is no technology that can detect the presence or absence of any kind of consciousness.. there is no objective, scientific evidence even for the existence of subjective experience!”

from Contemplative Science

Themes: Mind

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“Buddhists seek to replicate in their own experience the spiritual awakening of the Buddha, while scientists seek to make unprecedented advances in the pursuit of objective knowledge.”

from Contemplative Science

Themes: Buddhism Science

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“each person exists as an individual, but the self, or personal identity, is not an independent ego that is somehow in control of body and mind. Rather… a matrix of dependently related events in a state of flux.”

from Contemplative Science

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