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[kelledias-garden]

[toplist4u]

Robert Thurman Cause of Death | Final Tribute | Family, Wife, Kids, Net worth, Biography, Net Worth!

[keanuquotes]

[improvisedliturgy]

[Selflessness] describes actual reality, as finally there is no enduring person himself or thing itself, since persons and things exist only in the relative, conventional, or superficial sense, and not in any ultimate or absolute sense. To understand Buddhist teaching correctly, we must be clear about the two senses (conventional/ultimate, or relative/absolute), since mistaking denial of ultimate self as denial of con­ventional self leads to nihilism, and mistaking affirmation of conventional self as affir­mation of ultimate self leads to absolutism. Nihilism and absolutism effectively prevent us from realizing our enlightenment, hence are to be avoided.

Robert A.F. Thurman, Glossary to The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti

[tibetanthangkapaintings]

The Bodhisattva is always joyful, even when suffering. Bodhisattvas are always happy and cheerful under pressure, because they have felt the essence of reality as freedom. 

 ~ Robert Thurman

[buddhismnow]

Buddha's Message: Have Some fun! Bob Thurman 

Buddha's Message: ‘Have Some fun!’
 Bob Thurman delights the audience with his light hearted approach to the wisdom and the message of the Buddha. Buddhist film about 24 minutes. https://wp.me/pFy3u-6kV

Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his light hearted approach to the wisdom and the message of Buddha. He criticizes materialism, calling it a decision, one which limits our responsibility for our actions, personal and global, by confirming the belief that this is all there is, that there is nothing after life – so it doesn’t matter, because we won’t be here to face the…

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[edwordsmyth]

"Most of today’s practitioners of Buddhism suffer from a variety of entrenched notions against the intellect and its role and power as a vehicle of liberation. They consider their duty to be the cultivation of a supposed “pure experience” free of concepts, unwitting of the fact that the conceptual aggregate (saṃjñā-skandha) is always operative to determine any state of consciousness.

This is particularly tragic for many “meditators,” since by conceptually choosing to eschew concepts, they lose the flexibility of conceptual adaptation, and become stuck with whatever range of concepts their habit of mind deems comfortable. This dooms them as modern persons to the grievous error of taking the nihilistic reification of the metaphysical nothingness underlying materialist culture to be the emptiness or selflessness that is ultimate reality. And this tends to make them morally defenseless against the dictates of various secular agencies.

Practitioners from the remaining Asian traditionalistic Buddhist societies, on the other hand, most often fasten on some simple faith, stuck in an image of themselves as incapable of taking the responsibility of understanding the nature of reality on their own."

-Robert Thurman

[cobotis]

People are afraid that if they let go of their anger and righteousness and wrath, and look at their own feelings —and even see the good in a bad person— they’re going to lose the energy they need to do something about the problem... But actually you get more strength and energy by operating from a place of love and concern... You can be just as tough, but more effectively tough...

Robert Thurman