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Robert Thurman at Menla Mountain Retreat center in Phoenecia, New York. Photo by Emily Davidow.

Interview with Robert Thurman on gurus and love

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Emily Davidow

Delighted to share an excerpt from an interview with Robert Thurman by a fellow traveler on our Journey with Robert Thurman in Bhutan expedition, David Bullard. David is a San Francisco-based clinical psychologist, licensed marital and family therapist, and clinical professor of medicine and medical psychology (psychiatry) at the University of California, San Francisco. He offers a series of insightful interviews related to relationships, Buddhism and psychology at DrBullard.com. This …

From MAD to MUD: Tibetan Buddhism and Nuclear Disarmament

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Emily Davidow

The recent Bob Thurman Podcast (#79), recorded during our Journey with Robert Thurman in Bhutan expedition, reveals the answers to two questions I am frequently asked regarding the film: What is the point of Buddhist education? And what does Bhutan have to do with Tibetan (or Vajrayana) Buddhism? The Bob Thurman Podcast – Episode 79 It also coincides with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, …

Outtakes: Flagrantly Delicious

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Emily Davidow

Bob Thurman tells the story of Naropa, illustrating the Buddhist scientific view of reality as a benevolent, sustaining energy.

Outtakes: Orgasm and Death

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Emily Davidow

In this outtake from Journey with Robert Thurman in Bhutan, Bob Thurman explores the experiences of orgasm and death, and how they might be useful in measuring Gross National Happiness in Bhutan.

Robert Thurman on (My) Reincarnation

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Emily Davidow

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 …

Share Your Story: Robert Thurman talks about reincarnation from Zohe Films on Vimeo.

Robert Thurman at Occupy Wall Street

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Emily Davidow

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 …

Robert Thurman - Cool Revolution and the Age of Wisdom at Occupy WallStreet from WhatMeditationReallyIs on Vimeo.

True capitalism is based on generosity

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Emily Davidow

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 …

Peace in the World

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Emily Davidow

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 …

Bob Thurman explains how Buddha redefined the Dharma during a talk at Dochula in Bhutan.

Outtakes: Dharma is Reality

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Emily Davidow

Bob Thurman explains how Buddha redefined the Dharma during a talk at Dochula in Bhutan in this outtake from Journey with Robert Thurman in Bhutan.

Bob Thurman talks on transcending suffering at Dochula in Bhutan.

Outtakes: Transcending Suffering

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Emily Davidow

In this outtake from Journey with Robert Thurman in Bhutan, Bob Thurman explores the nature of suffering and how to transcend it during a talk at Dochula in Bhutan.

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