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What is the Buddha's view on aliens? Non-returning arhathood, the ten bhumis, and four vidyadhara levels. The eighty major and minor marks of a buddha, as well as their ten powers and four fearlessnesses. The six realms, three kayas, and five wisdoms. 37 desire realms, 17 form realms, and 4 formless realms. Golden, Triple, Double, and Degenerate Ages. Jataka tales of past lives without beginning. The eight classes of gods and demons: du, mamo, naga, ging, rahula, tsen, rakshasa, and yakshas. Tertons, terma, dakini script, and the seven transmissions. Dakas, dakinis, and dharmapalas. Bardo experiences and Togal visions. Healing with light, multiple simultaneous emanations, and going beyond space and time. Aliens or not, Buddhism includes a whole lot of amorphous, liminal, non-ordinary experiences and dependent arisings throughout Theravada, Sutra Mahayana, Tantra Mahayana, and Dzogchen approaches. How do you respond to claims like these? That seems to be the main point. Are they literal or metaphorical, both, or neither? Mind, matter, or in between? Outer, inner, secret, or innermost? What am I holding onto right now? What am I refusing to open into? How can I loosen up to better serve the happiness and awakening of all beings? The problem with ardently not believing in things like aliens is that it reveals that I do in fact strongly believe in something. So what do I believe in? Do I believe in the Newtonian billiard ball causality view of reality, because that has been thoroughly refuted by contemporary science at this point? The Buddha taught that there are not even billiard balls to interact on the more subtle relative levels, and ultimately as well. Do I believe that everything is just in my mind or some kind of psychological projection, because that has been thoroughly refuted by contemporary cognitive science. Awareness always arises relationally, just like the Buddha taught. Do I believe in a secular version of Buddhism espoused for the last 200 or so years by a tiny group of the W.E.I.R.D. people--western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic--because that is a blip of a worldview that almost no culture in the rest of human global history believes in? Do I believe that I'm at the cutting edge of evolution because I refuse to properly investigate the possibility that there is more to understanding than logical, empirical, propositional knowledge--which is also currently refuted by science? Or that my particular favorite avenues of non-propositional knowledge are the only valid ones because they seemed so real when I experienced them? All of this is to say that no matter what I think, I'm currently believing in something, which from a Buddhist perspective is worthy of investigation. Inaccurate beliefs and perceptions cause us to not properly flow with reality, and the gaps between our mistaken ways of knowing and what is actually happening, is how much we're going to suffer. The difference between how I experience reality and how enlightened beings experience reality is significant. Putting the time in to actually correct those mistakes is the path to enlightenment. For Tibetan Buddhists, this inquiry can be boiled down into a simple question: Do I think that removing the anomalous stuff that I'm not comfortable improves Buddhism? Or does it mean that I need to seriously reconsider some unexamined assumptions? Related inquiries: 1. "Are Deities Real?"    • Are Deities Real? Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Te...   2. "Sean Esbjörn-Hargens: Journey into the field of Exo Studies"    • Sean Esbjörn-Hargens Journey into the fiel...   3. "Our Wild Kosmos" https://whatsupwithufos.com/wp-conten... "We're suffering from a crisis of imagination. ..We need an expanded framework of meaning-making that helps us get out of our materialist bubble." -Sean Esbjörn-Hargens -- I've been a resident Dharma student and teacher at Padma Samye Ling since 2004. PSL is the main monastery & retreat center of the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center founded by the Nyingma Dzogchen masters Ven. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche & Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. Ordained as a lama by Rinpoches, I graduated with honors in philosophy & religious studies from NYU in 2002, and helped edit and publish over 25 books on Buddhist philosophy & meditation. I wrote the book "An Integral View of Tibetan Buddhism: Preserving Lineage Wisdom in the 21st Century." Learn more: www.padmasambhava.org