Guiding listeners into bliss, Dr. Robert Thurman explores how emptiness, renunciation, and compassion reinforce our oneness with all beings.
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This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Dr. Thurman offers us:
- A lovely translation of an 18th-century poem written by a Tibetan lama
- Finding ‘mother emptiness’ and reinforcing our oneness with all beings
- Lessons from the Buddha on emptiness and relativity
- Understanding renunciation as self-compassion
- Prioritizing the dharma rather than what society makes us feel we need to do
- What happens to the mind and body as we begin to renunciate things
- Differentiating sympathy, empathy, and true compassion
- Realizing how precious we are as human beings
- How compassion arises from our own inner bliss
- Releasing our need to achieve and cultivating a tolerance for ambiguity
- The synergy of all elements along The Eightfold Path
This episode was recorded in 2020 during the Love Serve Remember Wise Hope Virtual Retreat: Day 2. Check out upcoming retreats HERE.
About Dr. Robert Thurman:
Robert Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University and President of the Tibet House U.S., and is the President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies. His new book, Wisdom Is Bliss: Four Friendly Fun Facts That Can Change Your Life, is now available.
“Renunciation is true self-indulgence. It’s a real connoisseur’s thing to be detached, to have less baggage, less things.” –Dr. Thurman