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It’s Your Choice: to Be Happy, or to Be Miserable – Ep 69
It’s Your Choice: to Be Happy, or to Be Miserable – Ep 69
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Jun 3, 2016
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Description
In this podcast Professor Thurman reads and comments on an excerpt from The Avataṃsaka Sutra, which describes a cosmos of realms enfolding realms, infinite world systems mutually containing one another. Professor Thurman teaches that this infinite cosmos is governed by a principle called “the emptiness [shunyata] of everything.” When you realize that, then your life becomes your work of art: everything you say, all your gestures, how you hand somebody a tea cup, the way you walk and your posture — everything is an art-form within. . . The cosmos and the individual experience of the world in which we live is empty of any absolute solidity and is relative, and therefore you can shape it. It's your choice: to be happy, or miserable, to be angry or peaceful, and so on.
This episode was recorded on December 31, 2015 at the “New Year’s Yoga & Meditation Retreat” at Menla Mountain Retreat, taught by Sharon Salzberg, Robert Thurman, Carolyn Christie, & Brooke Myers.
This episode was recorded on December 31, 2015 at the “New Year’s Yoga & Meditation Retreat” at Menla Mountain Retreat, taught by Sharon Salzberg, Robert Thurman, Carolyn Christie, & Brooke Myers.
Released:
Jun 3, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
The Truth of Bliss: No Genesis Nor Final Destination – Ep. 3: In this podcast Professor Thurman discusses the Buddhist Twelve Links of Relativistic Origination its perspectives on Bliss, Causation, Theism, Kingship, Ignorance, Emptiness & nirvana. Includes an introduction to David B. Grays Translation of The C by Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!