Q&A - What is Dualism in Buddhism?

Q&A at Choe Khor Sum Ling, Bangalore
Recorded on the 15th of July, 2015

Teacher: Geshe Dorji Damdul

Here Geshe-la explains non-dualism from 3 traditions - Vedantic tradition, Cittamatra tradition & Prasangika-Madhyamaka tradition.

[JanPressman]

Following along slowly. Is taking me a while - It is great and clear to see.

[nomad__]

Brilliantly explained. Thank you Geshe la. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[lhawangla]

Brilliant,
I used to have so much confusion about Non-duality for a very long time among various traditions. This video help me understand all those concepts and difference.

🙏🙏🙏🙏

[Atomic]

I’m not sure how well the vedantic explanation is explained here 🤔
Very interesting though and I appreciate the discussion 🙏

[stefos]

I don't know Geshe-La but he is Delegs & Mangalam Geshe-La! You're the first Buddhist Geshe I"ve heard even mention these MA HO!

[pacoarias]

This is great. I was a physics major considering becoming a religion major amd took a course w Robert Thurman. It changed mt life. What Prof Thurman named the Centrist School of Buddhist philosophy seems the greatest solution to the nondualsit position and this presentation answered a long standing question I had. Still, where Centrism fails is that it remains situated in the larger Tibetan (perhaps better expressed indo-tibetan tradition) which does claim that all things are constituted by "clear light" Well, if so then the Ultimate really is not seeing the absence of any reality that can withstand analysis as Centrists worked so hard to demonstrate. Thurman himself has stated that clear light is constituative of all things even while maintaining that the Ultimateis only seeing that there is nothing which exists inherently. That is cognitive dissonance. If all things are constituted by clear light, then clear light resists the Centrist critique and always remains when both person and object disappear. The promis was that nothing would remain.

[psterud]

Can someone please tell me the name of what he's talking about starting at 5:18 about inside/outside duality?

[andrewmarkmusic]

The human experience via our consciousness is not equipped to answer this question (see Kant's noumena)...Universalizing state experiences on a planet in the middle of nowhere is overreach as these experiences could be local to this earth. 
At best all there is are different camps premised on individual experience. I sit, as a Christian Gnostic, in the dualist camp. Dvaita and Samkhya share similar views. 
But again, definitive answers to metaphysics are not possible for us so I agree with the OP in the comment section that the more important question is How Should We Live? Not via usurious economics and economic predation is the correct answer.

[lnbartstudio]

Does NOT dissolve into any thing. First rule. Start there rinpoche.