Robert Thurman Quotes - Page 2

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• A possession can't make you happy.

  Robert Thurman

  Make You Happy, Possession

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

  Robert Thurman

  Spiritual, Views, Insane

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Aug 19, 2013

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• The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc., you can use all kinds of methods to deepen this understanding and to have it counter the instinctual sense of being an absolute you.

  Robert Thurman

  Long, Meditation, Understanding

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Struggling with the world and having the problem of you vs. the world is a really big problem. You're going to lose because the world is so much bigger than you, and longer lasting.

  Robert Thurman

  Struggle, World, Problem

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The point is that you free the ego. The ego is only a pronoun. It's a Greek first person pronoun, ergo. When you're in Greece you say, Ergo wants to take a bus, and you don't mean your ego wants to take a bus, like some big entity, you only mean I want to take a bus.

  Robert Thurman

  Mean, Ego, Greek

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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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.

  Robert Thurman

  God, Religious, Goal

  Robert Thurman (1999). “Inner Revolution”, p.54, Penguin

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• You have to be responsible for yourself, refer to yourself, develop yourself, help others, whatever it may be. So we shouldn't have an idea that the whole thing is to shatter ones ego.

  Robert Thurman

  Helping Others, Ideas, Ego

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• If you love your enemy, that means you want your enemy to be happy.

  Robert Thurman

  Love You, Mean, Enemy

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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 the absolutely ordinary.

  Robert Thurman

  Teacher, Ordinary, Height

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• When people are dying, they call their old enemies and try to forgive them and try to be forgiven by them. They call their old friends and affirm their love for them, as well as detach themselves from them, and they try to get into as free a space as they can so they're really ready to go. They give away all their possessions and are as generous as possible. They give up old hatreds and grudges, and that's a wise intuitive thing, because it's much freer to live like that.

  Robert Thurman

  Wise, Giving Up, Space

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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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. What you emerged with what you are is an ocean of bliss. Your cells and atoms and brain and bones and blood stream all of it is bliss.

  Robert Thurman

  Letting Go, Ocean, Cells

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• All the things you need in the death transition, you need now in the life transition, because life is a transition, it is a between state. Therefore, every night when you fall asleep, it's like you die. And every time you do, you should be using the process of falling asleep as giving up your attention to sense objects, your discursive ruminating thoughts and so on. You should use that as a process of giving up and giving yourself completely to the universe and becoming completely obliterated.

  Robert Thurman

  Giving Up, Fall, Night

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.

  Robert Thurman

  Animal, Long, Brutality

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Mar 30, 2017

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• The problem has to be answered by means of art, because you can't blast them with bliss. Tat freaks them out even more. So instead, you have to have an artful way of approaching them. You do a dance for them, you get them to imagine being interconnected, and to imagine being free of their suffering, and not so self involved, through art that draws them out. Then you, and they, are all established in what's called a Buddha-verse, or Buddha-land

  Robert Thurman

  Art, Mean, Land

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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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 cool one, hard to see, that began 2,500 years ago with the Buddha's insight about the end of suffering. What I have learned from these people has forever changed my life, and I believe their culture contains an inner science particularly relevant to the difficult time in which we live.

  Robert Thurman

  Time, Believe, Compassion

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• In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when you realize there is no absolute ego there, no disconnected one, self, or ego, then that actually strengthens your conventional ego. It does so in the sense that then you realize it's a construction, and you can strengthen it in order to help others, or do whatever you're trying to do, it's not like you no longer know who you are. Then you can organize your behavior by using your ego, as it's now the pronoun.

  Robert Thurman

  Buddhist, Helping Others, Self

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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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, do not want people to develop more tolerance, nonviolence and compassion. And ruling groups in general, in whatever sort of hierarchy do not want the ruled to become too insightful, too independent, too creative on their own, as the danger is that they will become insubordinate, rebellious, and unproductive in their alloted tasks.

  Robert Thurman

  Military, Creativity, Independent

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• You're more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one, and you're responsible for how you change it. It's very important to understand that whole thing about the ego.

  Robert Thurman

  Ego, Important, World

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• What makes me fully alive is anything. Really just being alive is enough.

  Robert Thurman

  Alive, Just Being, Enough

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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, black, brown, and yellow. We are one of the few nations that still indulge in the death penalty for increasing numbers of these prisoners. We must become mindful of these negative things, since we need not support these actions of our nation to be affected negatively by their evolutionary impact, unless we mentally, verbally, and ultimately physically, disassociate ourselves from them.

  Robert Thurman

  Country, Impact, Race

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• You feel so happy about that, that you feel loving towards these poor being who are suffering in their separateness, and their alienation Then have the problem of how to help them get free, because just by your knowing that they're essentially free, that doesn't free them. Just by your being blissful, it doesn't release them from their knot of separation and false self absolutization.

  Robert Thurman

  Knowing, Self, Suffering

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• That love, in the sense of wishing their happiness, will cause your actions to be effective in relation to that person.

  Robert Thurman

  Wish, Causes, Action

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think about the trends at the moment in the planet and how it looks for my grandchildren. I don't panic over it, even though rationally maybe I should. I have faith that these terrible trends will change, and they will not go to their logical conclusions of climate change, militarism, pollution, overpopulation.

  Robert Thurman

  Thinking, Grandchildren, Trends

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Therefore, what you do as a spiritual practitioner in this life shapes that. To seek and find this beautiful, continuing existence, where there can be more progress towards Buddha-hood, toward love, and wisdom, and helping all being etc. So that's the great value of it.

  Robert Thurman

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Progress

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• If your enemy is happy, then why would they be bothered to be your enemy? Being someone's enemy is no fun. It does not add to happiness.

  Robert Thurman

  Fun, Enemy, Doe

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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