A Gift of Dharma for 4.30.11
Bob Thurman at Santa Monica's Broad Stage tonight. Photo by the author.
Today’s quote is from Robert A.F. Thurman, who is Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, co-founder and president of Tibet House U.S., prolific author and teacher, and translator. (For me, Thurman’s translation of the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra, The Holy Teaching of Vimalakīrti: A Mahāyāna Scripture, remains one of the richest and most rewarding English translations of, well, anything.) I recently interviewed “Buddha Bob” for Shambhala SunSpace, and I just enjoyed his lecture at Santa Monica College’s Broad Stage (sponsored by InsightLA) tonight. This is it — from his talk tonight (as recorded via “tweet” by Buddhist Geeks):
You’re real. The problem is you aren’t really real.
