In this two part podcast, Professor Thurman discusses the Buddha’s advice on love and marriage and the Buddhist perspective on love, generosity and compassionate relationships.

Defining love in Sanskrit, Pali and Tibetan, Robert A.F. Thurman leads an in-depth exploration of it’s central role in the Buddha’s teachings, it’s relationship to compassion, empathy, philosophy and the practices of transformation found in Buddhism, Christianity and Islam.

Podcast concludes with a reading of Walt Whitman’s poem “To a Stranger” by Gary Gach.

Buddha’s Advice on Love and Marriage – Ep. 208 of the Bob Thurman Podcast hoto by Ben Rosett on Unsplash