Robert Thurman Quotes
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The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in the Buddhist view,…
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Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become...
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The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.
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Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to attain…
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In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.
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The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow inner revolution, a…
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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift,…
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Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic or nationalist guises,…
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To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened imagination, which can…
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Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.
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To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not…
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Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which individuals are driven…
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Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite races — red,…
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It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.
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Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.
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When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned what you are left with is an ocean of bliss. Â…
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Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of…
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More than whether you live or die, it's how you are living or dying that is important.
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Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.
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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…
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