What is the Vimalakirti Sutra? Buddhism Explained with Robert A.F. Thurman

This talk was recorded during the 2016 Force For Good Class Series at Tibet House US in New York City. ‘A Force For Good’ is a Tibet House US course to further the Dalai Lama’s contemporary world initiatives, from His Holiness’ American Institute of Buddhist Studies and Mind & Life Institute science dialogues (Universe in a Single Atom) and His creation of Abhidharma 2.0 through the “Science for Monks” programs, his “secular ethics” (Ethics for the New Millennium and Beyond Religion), His nonviolent approach to conflict resolution, including His Nobel Peace Laureate activities to seek dialogue and a win-win reconciliation with China in the face of the ongoing ethnicidal policies in Tibet (Freedom in Exile and Man of Peace: The Illustrated Life Story of Tibet’s Dalai Lama) & along with his emphasis on positive activism (A New Reality: Charter of Universal Responsibility).
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Professor Thurman, in your book The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti, you write: Matter represents the familiar world, whereas "voidness, represents the goal of spiritual lomging, the ultimate, and eternal. Then in your talk you explain that Vimalakirti press people to see through the superficial sense of self, for us to understand reality so we do not have to suffer so much. You explain that things exist but that they are not absolute as we think. Wonderful, thank you very much for this inspiring teaching!! and thank you for your immense generosity of sharing it here for all of us to learn!!!

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Thank you

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❤️

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sounds like a psychedelic trip