“The nature of consciousness is said to be clarity and awareness and it is difficult to argue that this is a product of the brain.” We observe that twins, despite sharing a physical origin in the same womb, display differences in their personal characteristics. “Trying to account for the origin of a person’s life only on the basis of their body would be difficult and unsatisfactory. And for this reason, it would be worthwhile investigating what consciousness is. “When it comes to the start of a human life, the meeting of the physical factors doesn’t necessarily result in a conception.

The mind is something worth finding out more about. Today’s mind is a continuation of yesterday’s mind.

They tend to think of the mind in relation to the brain, and yet the mind is something other than that.

“Scientists haven’t investigated consciousness very deeply. Thekchen Chöling, Dharamshala, HP, India, 13th October 2022: When he entered the room this morning, His Holiness the Dalai Lama greeted the members of the Mind & Life Institute, Mind & Life Europe and their friends with a broad smile and a wave.Īs soon as he’d taken his seat, he announced that he wanted to say something about the mind. His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaking on the second day of the Mind & Life Conversation on Interdependence, Ethics and Social Networks at his residence in Dharamshala, HP, India on October 13, 2022.

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