Emptiness the Womb of Compassion, Robert Thurman
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ธ.ค. 2015
- scienceandnonduality.com/
We here a lot about compassion nowadays, along with mindfulness, and there is no doubt it is the essence of all spirituality and also essential for any viable society or world. In the famous phrase of the title, the great Indian philosopher Nāgārjuna states emphatically that truly universal and unconditional compassion arises in a being who encounters the deepest nature of reality - or perhaps that compassion is the most realistic way of engaging with life realistically. This talk will elucidate the passage of Nāgārjuna's Jewel Rosary in which this phrase occurs, connecting Buddha's revolutionary physical theory with the supremely positive human emotions of selfless love and compassion.
Robert A.F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, President of the Tibet House U.S., a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization, and President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies, a non-profit affiliated with the Center for Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and dedicated to the publication of translations of important artistic and scientific treatises from the Tibetan Tengyur.
Time chose Professor Thurman as one of its 25 most influential Americans in 1997, describing him as a “larger than life scholar-activist destined to convey the Dharma, the precious teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha, from Asia to America.” The New York Times recently said Thurman “is considered the leading American expert on Tibetan Buddhism.”
Thurman is known as a talented popularizer of the Buddha’s teachings. He is a riveting speaker and an author of many books on Tibet, Buddhism, art, politics and culture, including The Central Philosophy of Tibet, Circling the Sacred Mountain, Essential Tibetan Buddhism, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet, Worlds of Transformation, Inner Revolution, Infinite Life, the Jewel Tree of Tibet, Why The Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World, and, most recently, with Sharon Salzberg, Love Your Enemies.
I wish they would have let him go on for hours ~💚
bob thurman blows me away single everytime
Brilliant talk. Thurman is so funny on so many levels and his ability to convey this knowledge is precious. I found myself laughing and agreeing with what he was saying and longing for him to continue. Will have to watch again there is so much here.
What a wonderful lecture on emptiness! Thank you, Robert Thurman.
The Buddha, the exalted teacher, the exalted thinker, the truly enlightened scientist. I bow down to your feet. May I too acquire your wisdom and be like you, though I know, I already am.❤️😇🙏
Mr. Thurman is such a gift to the modern world.
Thurman is a jewel - thank you!
FABULOUS ! worth listening to many times....
Remarkable energy by Thurman in his presentation of important content with unusual clarity. Warrants several viewings and note taking.
To be asleep and awake at the same time. What a profound statement offer so inconspicuously. Thank you, sir.
Ahh if all teachers taught this way , no matter the subject, how enjoyable learning would be,. THANKYOU to everyone who helped produce this brilliant in sight .very enjoyable and such a treasure. THANKYOU 🙏🏼
By far my favorite SAND talk ever, thanks.
Excellent video. A true master of Buddhism. ❤
You are so funny. A pleasure to listen to. Thank you😊
I love this guy
So great.
I Love it!! Thank You
Thank you thank you thank you!
Wow!!!!!Great Speech!!!!!!
Best lecturer on buddism on TH-cam.nothing find differentiation between Vedanta profound teaching with correct understanding and buddhism.utterly true.
Grateful this showed up in my feed. Beyond comprehension. Every time you think you got it, you ain't.
amazing !!
Thank you very much!🌺🌺🌺🙏
Thank you so much Bob, really enjoyed this video!
Yes. Everything looked upon as healing. Especially water.
Hope people understand the weight of this teaching, it's just inexplicable! 🙏🏼
Great joy. THANKYOU. 🙏🏼
thank you for posting this talk!
Thank you
amazing
this guy stole the show ! haha nice, both funny and deep
Blissful!
Thank you 🙏🏻 💕
Very weird that I have not understood 95% of what this guy is talking about but still I gave him my 44 minutes and 15 seconds...
Such a rockstar
I bow!
LOVE YOU...man
That was fun!
Complete story of Emptiness from Nagarjuna to the Shentong School of Tibetan Buddhism at (Swami Sarvapriyananda - Emptiness).
Praying for me that i emptiness my womb and compassion i am going to tap into God about my self who i am in God
watch the last couple minutes before you stop watching
emaho!
FULL of light. Light, the Knowing compassion. Emptiness, a concept.
Pumped.
Not that I don't think this is great ... In the Acts of the Apostles, if I have it right, someone named Festus accuses Paul of being out of his mind owing to too much learning. In trying to get it all out within a limited time frame, Thurman finds himself falling into a humorous appreciation of himself that is quite infectious. Professor Irwin Corey managed the same trick without resort to any book learning whatsoever. This emptiness recalls to me Karen Armstrong's frequent references to kenosis. I would think it key that in the womb of compassion there is room for oneself.
Maybe people will enjoy some radiant sunbathing. With sunshine, by merging the whole eye(360 sphere attention, =V=) with a cosmic inter-penetration eye buzz(peripheral vision into focus), and absorbing/fusing the feel of that in a kind of synesthesia with the inner space between or into synaptic body feeling, it tends to create a kind of luminosity of infinite light with infinite space radiating through what feelings arise from space - blissful tingling. Such a meditation can be done with with the environment, especially in forests as trees do it naturally as they photosynthesize. Photosynesthesia. Warning don't do under strobes if you have epilepsy.
Hi @scienceandnonduality I did a portuguese subtitle for this video, can i upload it for the channel?
Thank yoU!!!! Can you send the files to; contact@scienceandnonduality.com and we'll upload them?
Mr. Thurman, who is the "you" who experiences all these states?
Critical thinking only for me.
These people always find themselves so important that they never have to prepare. Bunch of silliness.
The York Rite Master Mason Founders of The United States of America not only believed in a God, but in the last day of each and every man. They had all come up through lodge work illustrating the Guru (reveler of truth), The Great White Master (the inner light or "God" - John 1:5, 1 John 1:5), and the liberation (recognition/realization/nirvana). You can believe in a god that can be anything. You must believe in a last day for man. This is a take on the Yoga/Buddha Dharma. Let's continue the Dharma in 2020. Kamala Harris and Tulsi Gabbard both embrace it with experience and caring. Opportunity knocks. Namaskar!
You're crazy and you know nothing!
Truman really delivers. I wonder how large banknote has he grabbed for the lecture...?
He's a Brahmavid, don't let him fool ya! He's clever/smart to say he isn't enlightened. If I say I am, ppl will stone me, .. That's because we all make a big deal out of it. It's just a *recognition point* that virtually everyone will reach in time. Aside from that place reached [of right self-perceiving], everyone's already a Buddha anyway! Always been. It's intrinsic to sentient consciousness of any creature stripe, from ant to elephANT.
IMO, he's one of the VERY few (half dozen *at best* ) in the metaphysic circuit who gets the true meaning of non-duality.
I disagree however with one important insight. The matter of Dukkha.
To my understanding, suffering is a permanent archetype in Existence-Consciousness in the course of expressing Itself through the relative Sat-Asat World (as Adi Sankara also defined it). However, our underlying/substrate pure or fully real Sathya Sthithi (State of Brahman), which is KhandAnanda (infinite bliss), is what renders Dukkha a superficial, yet eternally persistent namarupa or name-form. Without the dynamic of Dukkha, we would 1. become too complacent; 2. have nothing to challenge us; 3. be driven mad by too much perfection; and 4. become too rooted in sterile clarity and lose touch with the creative flow that emanates from bewilderment.
So, we need the Maya of suffering also. It's our evolutionary engine.
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Everybode is confuse about emptiness.
Its necessary to experience, try, whatever inside your Body and Mind the emptiness and Enlightment, to understend what they are really.
The whay as those "enlightned " explain looks like the parable about many blinds people, trying identify an elefant through touch.
One says: its a tree
Other: its a Wall
Etc
Emptiness inner(body/mind) is : ecxtasy, bliss, stillness, almost no thoughts, divine sensation.
Emptiness out (objects) is easier to understend but imagine that emptiness in Budism, doens't contain nothing. No blow. It's a new concept.
Im not Budist, but i experiment the emptiness and Enlightment, all the time.
Nobody trust in me, because im not a feamous person.
Im Brazilian.
Good Lucky!
Buddha Bob's enlightenment on stage
I really want an electric toothbrush.
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omg, Professor Thurman is a *scream!* so *hilarious!!* ..and talk about a teacher who can pull the elitist rug out from under an unbearable non-dualist's feet (or out from under any religious fanatic)..advaita, non-duality and many other belief systems, they can have a lot to offer..but, one of the reasons i don't believe any one of them 100% is that *any* of them can be used to spread horrible *untruths,* as well as be used as a tool (wittingly or unwittingly) to spiritualize the shadow-side of the ego..i honestly don't think i've seen even a single exception to that re: the various forms and permutations of spiritual-mindedness..and the opposite is also true: when a personality is living from the heart, seems whatever *religion* they live from doesn't matter re: the way they carry themselves and how beautifully they deal with others...which has a lot to do with why i'm inspired to continue integrating my favorite advaita/non-dualist wisdom teachers' offerings with my foundational religion, as well as a handful of other systems of belief - which work, for me, very well together.......very much appreciate the Professor's balance of attitude and humbleness, along with all of the information he imparted...would be wonderful to see one of his presentations in person! 😃
Do you know Dvaita-Vedanta , Vishishtadvaita-Vedanta ect.? For me non dualism always lack in some answers.
@@Gieszkanne There is still work to be done and things to learn. In Thurmans's tradition, Gelugpa, it is said often that if science disproves a Buddhist theory or explains something in a better way, it will adapt. I think that's a very beautiful part of Tibetan Buddhism, it is cutting edge and willing to adapt and it is somehow so noble, yet so humble in it's claim to truth. I think it is a system built with a very realistic and good intention.
@@airbornepizza Sounds interesting. I was very surprised when I read in a book with Dalai Lama that he thinks that it would be quite sad if nirvana would be just nothingness or empty. Also I once talked to a tib. buddhist (I cant remember if ist was Gelugpa or Karma Kagyu) and he told me that he belives in a kind of eternal tranzendental Buddha body. In the Lotus Sutra its also stated that Nirvana is bliss and full knowledge. This of course isnt scientific but shows that there are many faces of buddhism almost theistic and also nihilistic.
@@Gieszkanne You seem to have read or discussed a lot of the things I have, and I agree with you and maintain that same skepticism. I think it's key not to have faith, and if a practice involves faith, to just suspend your skepticism so that the practice works, but always keep your critical, logical mind on the back burner. I'm happy you brought up the Lotus Sutra; I know the Buddha was sort of reluctant to teach the Lotus Sutra, and waited so long to reveal it, because these things are so difficult to put into words, and can be easily misunderstood. All things are empty, yet here we are, surrounded by phenomena. I don't think the word shunyata has a clean translation into English, and I think practice is key to it all "clicking" and making sense. Ive only had moments of clarity during practice, and to be honest, through psychedelics as well (or I glimpsed something preceding it, some other state). Anyway, once memory packs that experience away, you're only left with that impression of it. You can't really integrate it into our "gross" reality. Kind of like quantum and traditional physics. They are obviously both functional, real systems, but we don't entirely know how they work. It's a very elusive thing. It seems like you have to just take in a lot of info, then put it on the back burner and clear your mind, and let that "secret" part show up for you to see yourself. Whether that be during practice, an altered state, or just randomly. I hope I don't sound like I'm stating this as fact or arguing for a certain viewpoint, I am just learning and it has been very useful to me. I appreciate the discussion.
@@airbornepizza Nothing is empty. I think this is one of the biggest misconceptions about buddhism. Normaly the term emptiness shunyata is used and means empty of a constant self but not empty as total.Some schools like yogacara/cittamatra and pudgalavada disagree here.
What do you think could be misunderstood of the Lotus Sutra? There are verses which stated that Budhha is the father of the world and all living beeings are his children. What give him a god like position. I think that all sutras or pali texts are man made and cant be trustet. Buddha him self should once stated that his teachings will survive only 500 years. So that is passed for a long time so there is no true buddhism these days.
I love you Robert, but you sure talk a lot for being a Buddhist.
Great Talk...too many idiots laughing...they just don´t get it"!
Funny
I am not sure I believe everything he says. Where is the proof for all these stages.
Maybe I am not qualified to speak. After all what is the mind. DOES ANYBODY IN THE WORLD REALLY KNOW.
What he teached at the end about Shankara is wrong. Shankara himself was against Buddhism and Buddhism at his time was still quite strong. It was Shankara who brought back and re esteblished the veda especially the vedanta sutra and strenghtened th caste system. The Vishishtadvaita-Vedanta,Dvaita-Vedanta, Shuddhadvaita, had different philosophical views what has nothing to do with bring back caste system. Espacially Chaitanya was totally against it and even accept muslims.
He really must know better!!!
i am hindu,sorry you dont know non dualistic vedanta.there is no differnence between teaching of buddha and vedanta is same but approached in different way and Buddha never taught like this.buddha is in our culture.you are adding your own words and perception which is not correct at all
Self and non self.... Aatma and anaatma... Major philosophical difference..... But I love both Hinduism and Buddhism.....
very entertaining, charming fella. but if he were even quasi-enlightened, he wouldn't need to constantly shove his face in front of the camera.
If you would you wouldnt be disturbed by that ; )
He's a college professor! He's used to entertaining groups of young people. As for the way he puts his head forward, that's just a mannerism -- a little self-conscious, wanting to be liked mannerism. Because, again, he's actually a college professor, albeit probably retired at this point. I'm sure he would be sorry if he knew someone felt he was "shoving his face at them" which is guess it what you mean. Unless you mean showing up for the event which is recorded. "Quasi-enlightened" is funny.
He never claimed he was enlightened now did he
Sentient beings are confused and stupid, especially in this degenerate age. Therefore, Buddhas and bodhisattva need to employ more skillful means, emanate as various forms to approach sentient beings with different interests and needs.
Jeez. Take a few deep breaths, friend.