Robert Thurman: Expanding your circle of compassion
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2015
- It’s hard to always show compassion - even to the people we love, but Robert Thurman asks that we develop compassion for our enemies. He prescribes a seven-step meditation exercise to extend compassion beyond our inner circle.
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'what an amzing teacher .... thank you so much !!!
Thank you! 👏✌️
Thank you :D
Uma Thurman's Father? Believe he is.
Yes, he is Uma’s father.
Bob is so great, best western friend of Dalai Lama.
An easier logical route to compassion for all can be by watching movies like The Matrix or The Adjustment Bureau or even Source Code, and studying some criminal psychology. We're all criminals in some small part or other due to genetics and a lot due to circumstance. It's just the luck of the "good" people that their circumstances were better and nicer to bring them security and resources that removed fundamental insecurities in life to help make them good. Some of us turned good due to sufferings and fighting them.
The essential fact is that all of us are a small consciousness thingy ("the experiencer" or the one who experiences the world - in short, you) stuck inside a mind-body machine, subject to the whims of the mind-body system and its interactions with the outside world. Einstein (and the Gita) dispels the inside/outside distinction produced by our sensory organs.
When you study the past of every criminal and every unfortunate or miserable person, you find they are much the same material as you are, physically and mentally. That you are you, not them, is mere luck. That you are you, not a limping dog, is mere luck. (Or karma if you were to believe in rebirth).
This makes for a solid material-science rationalist's compassion. Which is good too.
When there are no insecurities at play, if the mind of an evil person is not really damaged (I'm not insulting them here) they are capable of displays of great kindness.
Free will is a rather suspect concept. There's a lot of evidence (mainly hard science, chiefly evolutionary psychology) that we're subtly programmed to act in the ways we do. So if we're not in control actually, why make a big fuss of being someone specific and different.
So, think of everyone, you could have been any of them and nobody would know the difference, not even you.
This world runs on memes. Today's new memes are knowledge and science. A 1000 years ago they were looting and conquering and hoarding wealth by the sword.
The memes of a world are responsible for its condition, much more than its people. So, if we replace medieval memes in our thoughts by scientific memes including compassion and equality, we don't have to hate people or change people, we can get a better world by changing just how and what we all think.
THANK YOU
Sending you so much love
Wow, that was thoughtful. Didn't think I was going to like what you had to say at first, but I did.
I thought the thumbnail was a picture of Gordon Ramsay.
Dog i thought it was harrison ford
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German Han Solo?
Must be hard being an academic with only one eye.
Not really, he’s provably used to it
I think you mean jet pilot