Buddhist Teachings & Meditations in the Land of the Thunder Dragon
One movie you should definitely see in this life is My Reincarnation, by Jennifer Fox, opening this weekend in New York and Los Angeles to rave reviews in the New York Times. (I saw it at the recent New Zealand Film Festival.) In the video above, from the Share Your Story feature on My Reincarnation’s website, Robert Thurman shares his understanding of reincarnation. …It’s not like a religious belief in …
Read More →One of the most striking physical features of Bhutan is its architecture. I was delighted to discover in Lisa Napoli’s wonderful book, Radio Shangri-La, that the University of Texas at El Paso was built to reflect the style of the kingdom’s unique structures, making a little Bhutan on the Border. Inspired by one of the first photo essays about Bhutan, “Castles in the Air,” from the April 1914 issue of …
Read More →Robert Thurman addresses Occupy Wall Street at Zuccotti Park on Cool Revolution and the Age of Wisdom, analyzing the problems that fuel the frustration underlying the occupation and encouraging compassion for the banker-robbers who also need liberation from a system that makes them desperately unhappy. How nonviolence – cool revolution – is key, and how meditation on compassion can help bring this about. Bob explores Bhutan’s concept of Gross National …
Read More →Excerpt of Robert Thurman speaking at Tibet House on Oct 5, 2011 as part of a NY Open Center class on the Yoga of Daily Living in the House of Vimalakirti We don’t want to simplistically think that Wall Street is the den of all evil, but the abuse of wall street, and the deification of it, and making it the shrine to Mammon, that’s the problem. It operated reasonably …
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Videos from the Peace in the World Panel moderated by Robert Thurman at the Newark Peace Education Summit, held May 15, 2011. In this segment, Part 1 of 4, Robert Thurman introduces and moderates speakers Alyn Ware, Global Coordinator of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament and winner of the Right Livelihood Award from New Zealand, and Isobel Arthen, youth representative of PeaceJam Foundation. Part 2 features Nobel Laureate Shirin …
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