Blown Away by Nirvana : The Buddha’s Eight Fold Path Explained | 1/16/2018

Blown Away by Nirvana : The Buddha’s Eight Fold Path Explained with Robert A.F. Thurman & Mark Epstein M.D. from the Annual Tibet House US Buddhism and Psychotherapy Program, Recorded at Menla in Phoenicia, New York August 2016

In this short video Professor Robert Thurman gives an introduction to the Buddha’s Eight Fold Path + the idea of Nirvana.

Includes an in depth discussion of translating Buddhist terminology from Pali + Sanskrit accurately to reveal the wisdom contained within.

“The Buddha’s nirvana is not a drive towards death or disintegration, as Freud naively assumed; it is an ability to accept death and disintegration without falling apart; without twisting, distorting, or tormenting the mind in response.

The freedom that the Buddha taught might more accurately be described as the ability to maintain one’s composure in the face of an impermanent, always changing, and apparently imperfect, world.

Mark Epstein M.D. from Thoughts without a Thinker.

 

“Blown Away By Nirvana and the Buddha’s Eight Fold Path” is an archive recording from the “Addiction, Depression & Recovery: Buddhist Psychological Insights for Mental & Spiritual Health in the Modern World” with Robert A.F. Thurman & Mark Epstein M.D. Tibet House US Weekend Retreat, recorded at Menla’s Nalanda Conference Center in Phoenicia, New York, August 2016.

Blown Away by Nirvana : The Buddha's Eight Fold Path Explained with Robert A.F. Thurman & Mark Epstein M.D. from the Annual Tibet House US Buddhism and Psyhoterpay Program, Recorded at Menla in Phoenicia, New York August 2016To listen to an audio recording from this weekend retreat at please visit www.bobthurman.com. Episode #124 of the Bob Thurman Podcast “Buddhism 101: Four Noble Truths” can be downloaded via iTunes or your favorite podcasting platform.

Full Session includes guided meditations, dialog with participants, providing the context of the Buddha’s Nirvana, The Four Noble Truths & The Eight Fold Path.

Additional previews are available on the Tibet House US YouTube Channel + Full Archive Recordings in the THUS Member Archives. Access starts at $2 a Month. To watch the full videos please visit:

First Session with Bob Thurman + Mark Epstein M.D.
Second Session with Bob Thurman + Mark Epstein M.D.

To learn more about upcoming programs in the heart of the Catskills with Bob Thurman & Mark Epstein M.D. please visit: www.menla.us.

“Blown Away by Nirvana” Photo, Created with love by Ryan McGuire. via www.gratisography.com.

About Mark Epstein, M.D

Mark Epstein, M.D. is a psychiatrist in New York City and the author of a number of books about the interface of Buddhism & psychotherapy, including Thoughts without a Thinker, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart, Going on Being, Open to Desire, Psychotherapy without the Self & The Trauma of Everyday Life. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University and is currently Clinical Assistant Professor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University.

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