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The Bodhisattva is always joyful, even when suffering. Bodhisattvas are always happy and cheerful under pressure, because they have felt the essence of reality as freedom. 

Buddha's Message: ‘Have Some fun!’
 Bob Thurman delights the audience with his light hearted approach to the wisdom and the message of the Buddha. Buddhist film about 24 minutes. https://wp.me/pFy3u-6kV

Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his light hearted approach to the wisdom and the message of Buddha. He criticizes materialism, calling it a decision, one which limits our responsibility for our actions, personal and global, by confirming the belief that this is all there is, that there is nothing after life – so it doesn’t matter, because we won’t be here to face the…

This is particularly tragic for many “meditators,” since by conceptually choosing to eschew concepts, they lose the flexibility of conceptual adaptation, and become stuck with whatever range of concepts their habit of mind deems comfortable. This dooms them as modern persons to the grievous error of taking the nihilistic reification of the metaphysical nothingness underlying materialist culture to be the emptiness or selflessness that is ultimate reality. And this tends to make them morally defenseless against the dictates of various secular agencies.

Practitioners from the remaining Asian traditionalistic Buddhist societies, on the other hand, most often fasten on some simple faith, stuck in an image of themselves as incapable of taking the responsibility of understanding the nature of reality on their own."