Rev. Danny Fisher

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.