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Dr. Robert Thurman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
213 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

Because they have a preconceived idea that you also, you can't understand. But then I used to ask them, well, if you can't understand everything, how do you know you can't understand? And they could never answer that one.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

Because they have a preconceived idea that you also, you can't understand. But then I used to ask them, well, if you can't understand everything, how do you know you can't understand? And they could never answer that one.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

That's it. But it's also, it says, you, your mind, you, Mark Hyman, your mind, Bob Thurman, you, whoever it is, if you really develop your mind, it is capable of understanding the world. And you, therefore, you can understand your world. Not only can you, but you experience it all the time. So you start...

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

That's it. But it's also, it says, you, your mind, you, Mark Hyman, your mind, Bob Thurman, you, whoever it is, if you really develop your mind, it is capable of understanding the world. And you, therefore, you can understand your world. Not only can you, but you experience it all the time. So you start...

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

That's it. But it's also, it says, you, your mind, you, Mark Hyman, your mind, Bob Thurman, you, whoever it is, if you really develop your mind, it is capable of understanding the world. And you, therefore, you can understand your world. Not only can you, but you experience it all the time. So you start...

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

The first one is that... If you don't understand it, it will bring you suffering, because you will always be dissatisfied with everything, and you will not understand what you are and where you are, and so you'll be afraid that different bad things will happen to you, and so you'll fight things, and you'll try to impose your own control on them rather than go with them, and then that will fail, and then you'll be frustrated.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

The first one is that... If you don't understand it, it will bring you suffering, because you will always be dissatisfied with everything, and you will not understand what you are and where you are, and so you'll be afraid that different bad things will happen to you, and so you'll fight things, and you'll try to impose your own control on them rather than go with them, and then that will fail, and then you'll be frustrated.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

The first one is that... If you don't understand it, it will bring you suffering, because you will always be dissatisfied with everything, and you will not understand what you are and where you are, and so you'll be afraid that different bad things will happen to you, and so you'll fight things, and you'll try to impose your own control on them rather than go with them, and then that will fail, and then you'll be frustrated.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

And even happiness, what you think of as happiness, you'll be dissatisfied with because it won't last. And then you won't enjoy it well enough to make it last. You actually can think there is happiness that lasts, but not the sort of ones that depend on some external circumstance. So that's the first thing.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

And even happiness, what you think of as happiness, you'll be dissatisfied with because it won't last. And then you won't enjoy it well enough to make it last. You actually can think there is happiness that lasts, but not the sort of ones that depend on some external circumstance. So that's the first thing.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

And even happiness, what you think of as happiness, you'll be dissatisfied with because it won't last. And then you won't enjoy it well enough to make it last. You actually can think there is happiness that lasts, but not the sort of ones that depend on some external circumstance. So that's the first thing.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

Then second noble fact is that that suffering has a cause, and the causes are an inability to understand it.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

Then second noble fact is that that suffering has a cause, and the causes are an inability to understand it.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

Then second noble fact is that that suffering has a cause, and the causes are an inability to understand it.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

No, no, that's just our habit. It actually is, luckily, less real than our ability to understand it. That's the good news. But in order to do that, we have to analyze it, we have to figure it out. And therefore, he was a scientist. He figured things out, the Buddha did. And meditation is not just shutting down your mind, that's wrongly taught. Meditation is...

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

No, no, that's just our habit. It actually is, luckily, less real than our ability to understand it. That's the good news. But in order to do that, we have to analyze it, we have to figure it out. And therefore, he was a scientist. He figured things out, the Buddha did. And meditation is not just shutting down your mind, that's wrongly taught. Meditation is...

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

No, no, that's just our habit. It actually is, luckily, less real than our ability to understand it. That's the good news. But in order to do that, we have to analyze it, we have to figure it out. And therefore, he was a scientist. He figured things out, the Buddha did. And meditation is not just shutting down your mind, that's wrongly taught. Meditation is...

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

focusing your mind to a very much higher degree of intelligence which we all have the capacity for and then then we will reach an experience of what reality is and the third of effect and the reason they're called noble is that they are factual for a noble person they're not factual for an ignorant person a person can i go back to the second one because my always my learning of that was that

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

focusing your mind to a very much higher degree of intelligence which we all have the capacity for and then then we will reach an experience of what reality is and the third of effect and the reason they're called noble is that they are factual for a noble person they're not factual for an ignorant person a person can i go back to the second one because my always my learning of that was that

The Dr. Hyman Show
How to Break Free from Suffering: A Guide to Finding Inner Peace

focusing your mind to a very much higher degree of intelligence which we all have the capacity for and then then we will reach an experience of what reality is and the third of effect and the reason they're called noble is that they are factual for a noble person they're not factual for an ignorant person a person can i go back to the second one because my always my learning of that was that