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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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• Human beings are such social animals. We're very connected with the feelings of those we're close to, so we can't really be happy when the ones we are close to are unhappy.

  Robert Thurman

  Animal, Feelings, Unhappy

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It isn't the meaning of love where you somehow desire that one or you want them or want them to love you.

  Robert Thurman

  Love You, Desire, Want

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.

  Robert Thurman

  Hate, Greed, Desire

  Robert Thurman (2011). “Tibetan Book of the Dead: Liberation Through Understanding in the Between”, p.29, Bantam

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• In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.

  Robert Thurman

  Self, Practice, Meditation

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• The problem in our society is the ego psychology and conventional wisdom about "look out for #1." That conventional wisdom thinks that "love your enemy" is to some a principle no one can ever live by.

  Robert Thurman

  Love You, Thinking, Psychology

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• This question, Is loving your enemy a life practice?, I like that question. It is a life practice, certainly, for everyone. It relates to
  the idea of, Is this a householder practice or is it a monk practice? I think it's both. Everyone has that practice.

  Robert Thurman

  Thinking, Practice, Ideas

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A lot of people, after seeking a bit, have some experience, and sometimes will believe they're enlightened. One has to be careful about that. Especially Americans, who are very external stimulus oriented. When they have some type of deep inner experience, often they think that was the ultimate experience.

  Robert Thurman

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to attain such perfect enlightenment ourselves, our whole sense of meaning and our place in the universe immediately changes. To be open to the possibility is to be a spiritual seeker, no matter what our religion. Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal.

  Robert Thurman

  Spiritual, Religious, Perfect

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Feb 23, 2017

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• Actually there's a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru's are supposed to be mean to their students, and there are some who revel in this and are abusive.

  Robert Thurman

  Mean, Trends, Students

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• An absolute being would be irrelevant to the world, as it couldn't create it. Any action, or causal process that would involve them, would make them relational. An absolute is the opposite of relative. So that's easy to understand, however, even though we understand that intellectually, which is very important to do, you don't transform yourself completely, yet.

  Robert Thurman

  Opposites, Important, Would Be

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• You can't relate to an absolute or it wouldn't be absolute, it would be relative. On an intellectual level, that's easy. However, you hear theologians in the theistic traditions talk about absolute God, and I saw God, or God spoke; speaking, being seen, these are all relational things. So what is absolute about such a being, wouldn't actually be absolute.

  Robert Thurman

  Intellectual, Would Be, Levels

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• If you see really bright lights, or hear really loud noises, go towards them, don't run away from anything. It's like giving someone instructions on how to handle a bear, don't run away from it. Stand up and try to make yourself look as big as possible. Don't give it the signal that it should chase you. And that's the case with the after death visions. Don't go for dark seductive lights, go only for bright lights.

  Robert Thurman

  Running, Dark, Light

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• In Buddhism, we say reincarnation is the conscious taking of rebirth by a Bodhisattva, or by a high being, whereas rebirth, is what most people do. Rebirth is an involuntary process where they seek traction by finding a new body after their subtle mind loses the old one. There are two things commonly said about this. One- there is no evidence for it and two- if there is evidence, what's the mechanism which carries the consciousness from one life to another.

  Robert Thurman

  Buddhism, Two, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• You could then use the dream to learn more about yourself, others, the world, and the nature of life. You can come awake in the matrix and realize you're the one in your own dream. People on the spiritual path can do that, thus they can avoid wasting the whole night, and use it in a developmental, nice way.

  Robert Thurman

  Dream, Spiritual, Nice

  Source: theindiespiritualist.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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• The person who is tormenting the Tibetans feels they have to get rid of the Tibetans in order to be happy.

  Robert Thurman

  Order, Tibetan, Feels

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

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• Take the example of people who are being most unrealistic - people who are beating monks to death and torturing them. Why shouldn't you be angry or hate that person? Well, the person who is doing that is very unhappy. They are being ordered by a higher-up.

  Robert Thurman

  Hate, People, Unhappy

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You take up energy towards someone because you think loving your enemy doesn't just mean caving into your enemy. It means first of all liberating yourself.

  Robert Thurman

  Mean, Thinking, Loving You

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• They [Chinese] will need a sympathetic intercessor with other people in the world to avoid conflict and create trust, and of course, Dalai Lama would be ideal. In another ten years from now though, he won't have the time to be really effective for them. They're truly wasting their time not using him now.

  Robert Thurman

  Years, People, Chinese

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The Chinese people absolutely need good spiritual examples. They also could use a citizen of their own, who is free and happy, and pleased with them, and represents them in a positive way to the world. Especially now that they're becoming this mega-power, and no longer known as a puppet in the game, or strictly business people.

  Robert Thurman

  Spiritual, Games, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding. However, the selflessness teaching is not that hard to understand. What it means is a type of self that people feel they have, like a fixed, unchanging identity. Either they know they have it, or for some, they feel they need to seek it, and possibly have an experience where they feel like they found something. That type of fixed, unchanging, essential self, or absolute self doesn't exist. That's what "no self" means.

  Robert Thurman

  Teaching, Mean, Self

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• So that's the process of understanding, and through that process, if you have a deep realization of the selflessness in regard to your absolute self, then it releases your relational self to be happily interconnected with everything in a blissful way. Then you yourself have "no problem" in the sense of no suffering. You reach Nirvana.

  Robert Thurman

  Self, Understanding, Suffering

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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