27 Quotes by Robert Thurman

However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no absolute self apart from things, you realize that essentially, you are all the other beings.

First of all, “no self” doesn’t mean there is no self, haha. So the “no problem” is jumped at a little too fast I’m afraid. Especially in American culture where people tend to be materialistic philosophically. I don’t mean running to the mall, but philosophically, you see?

More than whether you live or die, it’s how you are living or dying that is important.

You’re more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one, and you’re responsible for how you change it. It’s very important to understand that whole thing about the ego.

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.

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha’s discovery was happiness and bliss.

Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become...

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

The point is that you free the ego. The ego is only a pronoun. It’s a Greek first person pronoun, ergo. When you’re in Greece you say, Ergo wants to take a bus, and you don’t mean your ego wants to take a bus, like some big entity, you only mean I want to take a bus.