Bob Thurman Podcast

Three Vehicles #1

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Bob defines the Individual Vehicle of Buddhism as that which seeks transcendence from the imprisonment of cyclic life. To begin this path, he describes how one must realize their own precious human embodiment. Recorded at Tibet House US, NYC, February 2007.

#35 The Bob Thurman Podcast

In this podcast taken from a lecture to his undergraduate class, Bob explains the shift in the meaning of the words, "karma" and "dharma," that came about during the Buddha's time. He continues to explain how taking refuge in the dharma is really taking refuge in reality.
Recorded at Columbia University, September 2006.


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Peace Video #8

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Concluding the Blade Wheel teachings, Bob introduces the importance of the Vinaya, or 'discipline,' as the Buddha's companion to the Dharma. Recorded at Menla Mountain Retreat Center, October, 2006.

Peace Video #7

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Bob explains how Buddhism is the acceptance of the inifinte effect of everything you do; and how human language developed because we weren't trying to eat each other. Recorded at Menla Mountain Retreat Center, October 2006.

#34 The Bob Thurman Podcast - Peace X

"There is no higher happiness than peace," the Buddha said. In this podcast, Bob explains the Blade Wheel's paradoxical teaching that one should blame themself as the victim when bad things happen because only you can change yourself.
Recorded at Menla Mountain Retreat, October 2006.


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