Bob Thurman Podcast

#24 The Bob Thurman Podcast - Lam Rim VIII

In this series of podcasts, Robert Thurman will discuss in detail the three stages of the Lam Rim. The second stage is based upon the contemplation that suffering is universal and common to all beings, whereby one develops the bodhi-mind, the altruistic spirit of enlightenment.
Recorded at Tibet House US, NYC, October 2006.


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#23 The Bob Thurman Podcast - Lam Rim VII

In this series of podcasts, Robert Thurman will discuss in detail the three stages of the Lam Rim. The second stage is based upon the contemplation that suffering is universal and common to all beings, whereby one develops the bodhi-mind, the altruistic spirit of enlightenment.
Recorded at Tibet House US, NYC, October 2006.


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Lam Rim Video #7

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Bob explains how ethics in Buddhism is less moralistic than biological; and introduces us to the ten-fold path of skillful and unskilful evolutionary action. Recorded at Tibet House US, NYC, October 2006.

Lam Rim Video #6

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Bob explores the Buddha's realization of the relational nexus of all things; and how we are a presence within a world of interrelationships.
Recorded at Tibet House US, NYC, October 2006.

#22 The Bob Thurman Podcast - Lam Rim VI

In this series of podcasts, Robert Thurman will discuss in detail the three stages of the Lam Rim. The second stage is based upon the contemplation that suffering is universal and common to all beings, whereby one develops the bodhi-mind, the altruistic spirit of enlightenment. Recorded at Tibet House US, NYC, October 2006.


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Lam Rim Video #5

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Bob meditates on the immediacy of death; and how the soul will be the only thing of any benefit to you when you pass from this life to the next. Recorded at Tibet House US, NYC, October 2006.

Lam Rim Video #4

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Bob describes the three unskillful actions that cause one to be reborn a less happy being and why Rambos are bad in bed. Recorded at Tibet House US, NYC, October 2006.

Lam Rim Video #3

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Bob uses metaphors to describe the bodhi-mind, the altruistic spirit of enlightenment; and why the act of killing another being solves nothing. Recorded at Tibet House US, NYC, October 2006.

#21 The Bob Thurman Podcast - Lam Rim V

In this podcast, Bob gives a guided meditation on creating a jewel tree in your mind. In this place, all of the greatest teachers, enlightened beings, deities and your loved ones offer you their wisdom and kindness in flowing rays of jewel light that you bathe in and reflect back.
Recorded at Tibet House US, NYC, October 2006.


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#20 The Bob Thurman Podcast - Lam Rim IV

In this series of podcasts, Robert Thurman will discuss in detail the three stages of the Lam Rim. The first stage, renunciation, occurs upon recognition that the nature of all unenlightened life is suffering, from which one can generate a strong transcendence based on the determination to be free from suffering. Recorded at Tibet House US, October 18, 2006.


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