Buddhism, Emptiness & Idealism #2

This was a deep one - and really started to flow about 90 minutes in, so we stuck around for a bit longer than usual, discussing the schools within Buddhism that are closer to Analytic Idealism, and have their own refutations for the kind of critiques that we've heard from Jay Garfield and others.

The panel included:

Michael R. Sheehy, a PhD in Buddhist Studies who specializes in the Kālacakra and Dzogchen meditation traditions is research associate professor and director of research at the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Karl Brunnhölzl is an international teacher and translator of Buddhism, focusing on Yogācāra, buddha nature, Vajrayāna, Mahāmudrā, 
Andrew Holecek is a frequent subject in scientific studies on meditation and lucid dreaming, after completing a 3 year retreat. He is Resident Contemplative Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, and a research consultant for the Cognitive Neuroscience Program at Northwestern University

All the speakers have seen the debate with Jay, so this will be useful to watch before joining this session, if you haven't already:

Timestamps

0:00:00 Buddhism and idealism: a wider conversation
0:05:32 Beyond one interpretation of Buddhist emptiness
0:10:06 What if emptiness means openness?
0:15:10 How far can logic take us?
0:20:01 Philosophy and meditation: different questions?
0:25:22 Buddha nature without clinging to an essence
0:35:50 Empty of independent existence
0:40:24 Is compassion intrinsic to awakening?
0:45:02 Bernardo’s account of mind beyond the individual
0:50:06 Why idealism insists on a ground of subjectivity
0:55:11 Luminosity and the nature of awareness
1:05:44 Individual minds as whirlpools in one lake
1:15:31 Where infinite regress becomes a sticking point
1:25:02 What remains without sensation or autobiography?
1:30:21 Is pure subjectivity the great void?
1:35:47 States we may mistake for pristine awareness
1:45:14 Could dismantling concepts prepare us to see?
1:50:12 What does practice add to the argument?
1:55:07 Can different perspectives sound contradictory?
2:05:14 Awareness knowing itself without splitting in two
2:10:11 Can language avoid inventing a separate agent?
2:15:22 Is metacognition the same as reflexive awareness?
2:25:33 Deconstruction in service of liberation
2:30:07 Emptiness, luminosity and pervasive care
2:35:37 Does nature express a universal mind?
2:40:21 A spiritual path to where?