The Path to Enlightenment: Insights into Buddhism

Dialogues at the Chopra Center for Well-being

by Robert A.F. Thurman, Deepak Chopra

In this fascinating dialogue between Robert Thurman and Deepak Chopra, M.D., many concepts relating to compassion, enlightenment, and Buddhism arc examined in depth. Some of the conclusions that Thurman and Chopra make include the following:
-- The heart of the teaching of the Buddha is that enlightenment is getting to that level of awareness where you realize that the core of your being is the core of every other being on the planet.
-- Ignorance -- the fundamental ignorance about what we are and what the world is -- is the cause of suffering in the world.
-- Compassion doesn't just mean feeling the suffering of others, it means really helping them overcome their pain in order to make them happy.This discussion will educate and entertain you, and also inspire you to break out of the hypnosis of cultural conditioning to find your own path to enlightenment.

Genres: Spirituality

2 pages, Audio Cassette

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Tenzin Robert Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, holding the first endowed chair of Buddhist Studies in the United States. He is the author of the bestseller Inner Revolution, as well as Anger, Infinite Life, and other popular books. He is also a translator of Tibetan texts. He serves as co-founder and president of Tibet House US, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the endangered culture of Tibet.

Reviews

[Seon Ji (Dawn) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Audio book was only a little over an hour.

Thurman is quite funny, and Deepak is as usual very insightful.