Buddha's Message: Have Some fun! Bob Thurman 

Years ago I read Bob's translation of the Vimalakirti Sutra, an old Buddhist text about an archetypal boddhisattva. I somehow "knew" that here was someone (Bob) who knew. I have never doubted it. Thank you Bob and all who made this talk possible. Bob is an extremely rare jewel.

Accomplished buddhist scholar with a great mind and intellect. Peace ✌🏻

Robert Thurman is an absolute treasure.

Always love Bobs talks, a wise man

Love this man and although the doubters maybe cannot engage in the knowledge offered by the great Buddhist masters, Bob Thurman is so clear and simple and downright amusing in his delivery, that it's impossible not to think carefully about what he says.

So many profound points in such a logical presentation. Makes me glad to not be a robot, and ever so happy to be a Buddhian Aspirant.

Thank you, Bob. I love you. Have fun!

Bob is my fav' presenter by far at this conference. He seems to have done real spiritual study and works and not become dried up. Reminds me of some of the himalaya yogis I have known.

wow... how engaging is this man. first ever meeting. Brilliant lecture. thx

Thank you Bob ... and many Tashi Delek 🙏

I never tire of listening to dr Thurman

Buddha Bob -- as he was called at Columbia University -- is absolutely the best :) I wonder how come some people don't get that some things he says is tongue-in-cheek, like women are more enlightened ... This great scholar delivers message of profound wisdom, massage of libaration, in a modern, entertaining language, very accurately too, without everything-is -the-same-devious-thinking trash that often oozes from the lips of so many so called gurus....

Enlightenment ~ infinite presence in relative reality... yes!!! So good

Rebirth by choice, is a vacation. Learn the capabilities of the mind and body. Remember the value of hard work and helping others. Overall, have a good time with it and share those vibes with others along the path. 🔼🔃🔽

Always inspiring and fun to watch! Thanks as always!

WOW 🦋🌏✨🤹‍♀️🌻🐝❤️Yesss!! Bob you are Wise Comic Genuis😎Thank You!!

Bob the builder of inspiration you are infinitely a beautiful minded soul thank you.......

Brilliantly delivered response to the cyborg future Harari has in store for us, really!

I met Bob's daughter in a dream once, over twenty years ago. I asked her how her dad was. She told me, "He's probably off drunk somewhere." Good enough for Marpa.

Loved that. ❤️

GREAT DISCUSSION...THANK YOU

awesomeness all round. awesome!

Great sir thank you so much

Mumbling in this video aside, he’s right that nonduality and science more or less prove each other.

Thanks Bob for sharing

Tks for meditating and being a scholar though when u were younger as we are reaping the harvest of that now..with Gratitude

The message of the Buddha is Not hedonistic. The message of the Buddha is Be Compassionate towards All living beings equally much.

Thank you so much geshe lharampa la

Such honesty

Fabulous Bob…☺️👍👨‍🎨🎨🎼🎉🙏🥰

Thank you

Oneness.....together! BEING! UR it! JOY

This is great! Brilliant people tend to be funny, at least my favorite ones.

Dear friends at SAND: the title of this video really doesn’t do it justice. I clicked on it purely because it was Bob Thurman, but please consider a more engaging or even accurate title. This is a really fun presentation, but there is really deep existential content presented here - dreams, afterlife, social responsibility- that others might skip over based on a title that is a little too glib. I love your videos and would love to share this one on social but don’t think the title is accurate or even enticing.

Well, the paradox is the sign post and the tetralemma has some landing lights. Neither something, nor nothing, nor both, nor neither. No thing might be more precise in many contexts.

Amazing talk and posting this out. Having lived in the remote high Himalayas bordering Tibet (30 miles away) for the last 18 years, and the lower jungle regions, and being a psychotherapist for 32-years before that, it has to be said that this 'nothing' as per Buddhism is not what's been found to be true/reality, either via personal experience or hearing many accounts from shaman/yogis. What has been experienced is described in ancient Yogic science/Hinduism; the dissolving of a personal egocentric self followed by tremendous expansion into being every single thing simultaneously - both in form/manifestation and as light itself. In other words, there's no personal self (rather than 'nothing') which leaves a feeling/experience of emptiness because the ego-self has dissolved. And also to add that I've found Buddhist's to be not an innately joyous/playful - or generous as Hindus.

Hello sir. Xuang Zang showed me the first sangarama made for Tibetans in India. Would you like to see it.

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I loved it when he characterized the human as that which empathizes with its prey. Then he rejects the human which has created AI.

'If I'm unhappy it's my fault.' What happened to compassion?

I love this channel. It is ironic that the logo of 🕉️ = MC2 actually represents dualism, not Om, and not the Absolute. Since the speed of light squared requires time and distance and the Absolute has neither, it is timeless and motionless. It might be more accurate to put, Om does not equal MC2. Or perhaps use the symbol of yin and yang. ☯️=MC2? What do you think? Can science and spirit actually be reconciled? 🛐⚛️=☮️.

What a beautiful, beautiful man, and how intelligently he describes women and their innate "superiority" to the testicled ones.

Stimulating and fun- but I have one place where I disagree. I think it's very simplistic to assume that lions are only lions to learn how to become human! It is very possible that Lion Soul is its own utter perfection- equal to but different from humans. Same for all other life forms.

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Not only haven't they discovered a lack of subtle soul surviving the material body, but they've weighed dying patients demonstrating the weight of the soul. It's also been photographed.

he has always been materialistically comfortable though

So Nothingness or Field of light that recharges us? :-)

A mutable buddha wood then be spelled Budha A~1, B~2 Adding is a fun cranial exercise, away from focus on imaginary ego or feeling base

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I want to know more about the "clear light of the void". Intuitively, I understand how it is experienced through bliss. Is there any science available on this?

The ONLY real truth that no one can deny is : We are all forced to exist in a reality we didn't create, with rules we can not govern.

The very initial distinction between so-called Relative and Absolute is problematic. There is neither Relative nor Absolute. In fact, one can see all seemingly relative phenomenons and existence as ultimately an "Ineffable Absolute" that is somehow "behaving or appearing as relative" to us self-aware sentient beings with a limited canonical point of view... Or on the other hand, one can indeed also see the whole world and phenomenons as absolutely relative where absolute has no meaning at all because everything is relative; however, the only way to assume/imagine such an absolutely relative universe would be to think it as eternal, as infinite, which is problematic as well! Why? Because first of all, it contradicts the very core Buddhist concept of "Emptiness" as ultimately there is no such concepts as "Eternalism" either. Because those very concepts of eternity and infinity as anthropomorphic concepts are also "empty" of essence. Second of all, infinity is always infinity of something, infinity of phenomenons, worlds, stuff, numbers and so on and so forth, and infinity cannot be just infinity by itself, it does not even make sense to begin with! What I'm trying to say is that, in my humble opinion, when one reaches the very edges of her/his intellectual capabilities which is usually the concept of infinity in our mind (the concept of infinity represents the very edge of our intellectual rational capacity which beyond that, we cannot "know" anything rationally), one does not necessarily need to simply "assume" stuff or bring about overly anthropomorphic justification simply because those mysteries go beyond the capabilities of human beings. If there is a mystery that cannot be realized by usual means of our mental intellectual capabilities, then we should not simply modify the mystery or come up with absurd answers simply to satisfy our rational minds! ... In other words and in this example, "Relativity" is a concept in the language, and language as a medium with which we are not only communicate with each other, but also think with! (without language thinking/rationalizing is impossible) is not ultimately real. On the other hand, "Absolute" is also a concept in the language which just like infinity cannot exist in actuality nor can it be even imagined conceptually! The truth of the matter is that the "Nature of Reality" if you will (for the lack of better term) is neither This or That (hence the ancient practice of Advaitic Neti Neti), the Nature of Reality stands even beyond being and non-being, hence it cannot be even proven or disproven as by standing beyond all concepts, existences and phenomenons, it means that it also stands beyond time as we define it. Therefore, the Nature of Reality by definition stays "Ineffable" and beyond anything graspable by us rational humans. In fact let me finish this by asking this question: How can one attempts to know an ineffable substance which ultimately stands beyond "Knowledge"? Is not it absurd to assume that one can somehow know "That" which stands beyond "Knowing" by simply knowing it? ... That which stands beyond knowing is by nature "Unknowable", and that which is unknowable cannot be known by knowledge, period...

Just how many pictures did that guy in the front row take?

Never trust anyone who says, "right?" at the end of a statement. It is a sure sign of uncertainty and chicanery.

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So in other words there is no end to anything.. and death is easy for the person that dies.. but being alive is far harder..

This guy this guy makes Deepak sound like Sam Harris. I have never heard so much double talk in my life.

No one has discovered nothing precisely because there is always something, I.e. some material object, as tiny as an atom , which has some weight and occupies some space.

If it can be photographed, it is not the soul.

Im Back in the Bardo again -

In nothing there is everything.

wake up man. you are dreaming. start meditating.

Oh, really, "one life only" makes us irresponsible (around 8:40)? How about the "many lifetimers", who encounter a miserably suffering person, only to shrug their shoulders, reflecting that the person must have done lots of evil in past lives to end up in that state. No question of helping them, of course, because that would prevent the wretch from getting their just desert. They brought it on themselves and deserve it, having done so much evil. Makes it easier to understand some of the scenes you are bound to witness in India if you spend enough time there...

There has got be nothingness in this present life. Leave every thought process. It actually is deceiving

« Every night you let go of your consciousness - you die every night » wow has this bloke never head of Freud???????

Women are more spiritually enlightened then men> Im sorry but this is not the Tao- The true master shows no favoritism, There is no better or worse then. I am a follower or Zen and Tao, Whenever I hear things like this It always strikes me as so distasteful and not honoring the teachings- Their are no chosen people, women , men, black , white - It simply is not true- the truth is this moment. And compassion is key, Humility is key . It is a dis service to women to boast them like this, maybe they wont heal themselves of the human dysfunctions that we all suffer from because they hear things like this, I meet more suffering women everyday the same amount as men. How do I know this? because I look within myself. peace

This guy is hilarious

Samsara means wandering on in search of happiness. This whole "samsara is nirvana" trope is wrong. When the motivating flames of passion go out, there is no more samsara. When happiness is found, there is no more wandering on in search.

Mind Only dharma practitioners understand and let go. God Only dogma believers cannot understand, so as usual to show they have a self, become exclusive, superior and judgmental. Thus their afflictions continues.

Relativity? Relative? I hate it when new age spiritualist take Einstein's theory of relativity and twists it to fit their narrative. Einstein NEVER mentioned that his theory was to support new age spiritualism. I've studied physics for YEARS. WTF?

Oh no. You were doing so well until 13:20. I hate it when my kindhearted friends are so influenced by the global oligarchy.

I know what you wrote is true . I had a revelation and no one could understand me . I will make story short I did chanting to SHIVA and did a lot of meditation.and I now know the truth why we are here. IT is a play of consciousness. Love people as your self and GOD above all thing.The reason is to know you are GOD ON EARTH. THAT IS WHY THERE IS VIDEO THAT TEACH YOU TO CREATE WHAT YOU WANT BUT YOU HAVE TO MAKE SPACE FOR THIS i MEAN CONTROL YOUR THOUGHTS .ALSO KNOW THAT EVERYONE IS YOU.

You talk to much. Everthing is from couse And effect.for a reason We connected from here In universe. Buddihm is real.

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This guy makes Deepak sound like Sam Harris. I have never heard so much double talk in my life l. The Buddha straightened God out? There is no creator God in Buddhism so who was he talking to? If such a thing as God exists no human could one up him in that way.

have some fun, price 7Moscow Lemons, says jesusfm, who mind keeps consciousness the Buddha had.

Bob Thurman is putting others perspectives down.... I don't like that....by the way also Harari does buddhist meditation practice. Why do we grasp this rebirth/reincarnation? Either you believe it or not but there is no way to know. All there is right now is a story. Enlightenment could be as mondane as being non reactive.

He sort of had me until he said listen to your wife, and women are more enlightened 🙄, really?, what all of them no I’m sorry definitely not.

Why is it, that we are amused at men speaking worthlessness? As though riddles, are all we want to hear. I can't judge this man on his whole life. Why has everyone forgotten, what drove Siddhartha Gautama? Everyone want's to be god-like. Without the responsibilities. This is all laughable. If it weren't such a horrendous distraction. How dare anyone, speak with such certainty. You better be available, for debate.

Talking about Buddha's teaching is not going to bring salvation for you my friend, same goes to Dali Lama

I feel he's quasi famous only because of his daughter and HH Dalai Lama.

Materialism is a disease LOL

"The Buddha was the filthiest bastard and biggest con-man that ever lived." -UG Krishnamurti :)

Drivel.