Principles of the Path Guided Meditation : Lam Rim Force For Good with Robert AF Thurman
This video is a guided meditation on the Three Principles of The Path as laid out by Tsongkhapa & the Dalai Lama lineage led by Tibet House US President Robert AF Thurman
“In this simple structure of Buddha’s basic prescription for his contemporaries, we can see the foundation of the cultural and social revolution he engineered.
Thus, the enlightenment movement does not fit the normal definition of a religion. A religion is based on a belief system that mandates a certain pattern of ritual action, social structures, and ethical norms.
Buddha taught the need for freedom from belief systems in order to develop the power of critical wisdom. He taught the relativity of social structures and the supremacy of the individual’s right to freedom. And he taught that the scientific understanding of reality naturally leads to effective ethical behavior. His was an educational movement affecting not only individuals but whole cultures, entire systems of thinking and living.”
Robert AF Thurman from Inner Revolution
“Principles of the Path Guided Meditation : Lam Rim Force For Good with Robert AF Thurman” was recorded at the 2016 Lam Rim: Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Sources Class Twelve of the Force for Good Series with Robert AF Thurman at Tibet House US.
“Principles of the Path Guided Meditation : Lam Rim Force For Good with Robert AF Thurman” Photo by via www.scienceformonks.org.
This video is an excerpt from the Tibet House US Member video “Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Sources : Madhyamaka Lam Rim” (1:56:24) and is apart of the Force For Good Class Series.
‘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).
This on-going series was inspired by Daniel Goleman’s ‘A Force For Good: The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our World‘.
To join the on-going #ForceForGood series please visit: www.tibethouse.us.
To listen to audio selections from the Bob Thurman Podcast about past lives please visit: www.bobthurman.com.
To watch more videos from past ‘Force for Good’ programs please visit the Tibet House US Member Archive, available to monthly supporters.
About Robert AF Thurman
Suggested Books & Audio by Robert AF Thurman:
Man of Peace: Illustrated Life Story of Tibet’s Dalai Lama (Book), Infinite Life: Awakening to Bliss Within (Book), Anger: The Seven Deadly Sins (Book), Inner Revolution (Book), Circling the Sacred Mountain : A Spiritual Adventure Through the Himalayas (Book), Essential Tibetan Buddhism (Book), The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Book of Natural Liberation Through Understanding in the Between (Book) The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism (Book), The Central Philosophy of Tibet (Book), The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture (Book), Life & Teachings of Tsong Khapa (Book), Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World (Book) & Liberation Upon Hearing in the Between: Living with the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Audio).
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