Infinite Life, Robert Thurman
Infinite Life, Robert Thurman
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Infinite Life
Awakening to Bliss Within

Author: Robert Thurman, His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Narrator: Robert Thurman

Unabridged: 12 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/11/2019

Synopsis

One of is America’s most popular and charismatic Buddhists writes about taking responsibility for our own happiness and our actions.Infinite Life demonstrates that our every action has infinite consequences for ourselves and others, here and now, and after we are gone. Thurman introduces the seven Transcendent Virtues to reconstructing body and mind carefully in order to reduce the negative consequences and cultivate the positive. In his powerful, pragmatic style, Thurman delivers life-changing lessons on the virtues and emotions. He invites us to take responsibility for our actions and their consequences while we revel in the knowledge that our lives are truly infinite.Infinite Life is the ultimate guidebook to understanding our place in the universe and realizing how we can personally succeed while helping others.

About Robert Thurman

Robert Thurman is a college professor and writer for thirty years, holds the first endowed chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in America at Columbia University. A cofounder and the president of Tibet House New York, an organization dedicated to preserving the endangered civilization of Tibet, he is the author of the national bestseller Inner Revolution. Thurman, who was the first Western Tibetan Buddhist monk, and who shares a close, thirty-five-year friendship with the Dalai Lama, lives in New York City.

About His Holiness the Dalai Lama

His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama was born in 1935 in Taktser in the northeastern part of Tibet. After the occupation of Tibet by the People’s Republic of China in 1959, he fled to India, from where he has since worked for a mutually acceptable solution for genuine autonomy of his homeland. In 1989 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erik on December 23, 2015

This book is remarkable, I think, because it teaches engagement in the world. Leading the "infinite lifestyle" involves, first and foremost, care for others. Thurman spends a good deal of text inviting and praising a lifestyle of giving generously, and becoming involved in the issues of the day. One......more

Goodreads review by Jerry on November 18, 2012

Have read this book 5 times over. I love it's boiling down of the dharma. Clear and consise......more

Goodreads review by Craig on September 30, 2010

I had first heard of Robert Thurman after watching a documentary called "One", in which the filmmakers tried to answer the timeless question: "What's the meaning of life?" They interview several notable spiritual gurus, Thurman included. What perked my interest was not only his answer, but that he i......more

Goodreads review by Kathryn on March 03, 2012

I really enjoyed this. I didn’t read it cover to cover, I chose to look at topics that interested me the most. Robert Thurman writes in a way that makes Buddhist practices understandable and attainable. I particularly likes when he talks about meditating and says being mindful and interested in medi......more

Goodreads review by Bernadine on May 01, 2009

Deep insights and intense realities brought to the surface. This book has the potential to carry one into life changing transformation, if chosen.......more

Quotes

“Filled with a treasure trove of ethical practices and meditations…[Listeners] will be amply rewarded.” Spirituality & Health

“A watershed work.” Spirituality & Health

“His most influential book to date.” Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

“Thurman delivers life-changing lessons.” Snow Lion magazine

“Among the riches offered here is the insight that we do not become faceless blobs as we realize our selflessness and the infinite nature of our lives but true individualists. Liberated from a fear of death and isolation, confident that we are in a long-term relationship with life that can never be severed, we can begin to help ourselves and others to happiness.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Awards

  • Books for a Better Life Award
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