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Men Who've Walked With God: Buddha, 1953 May 3
In this fourth lecture on "The Men Who've Walked with God," Thurman talks about the Buddha and his wrestling with human existence. Thurman says that the Buddha saw the aging and hunger in the world and equated life with suffering. The Buddha's response to this was to root out desire, to renounce attachment to the self. Thurman says that the insight here is that the self is not so much important as much as the act and the deed of the self. The ethical insight of the Buddha is in the purification of desire, which radiates into the moral life as a powerful life-affirming posture.
Part of the Collection, Men Who've Walked with God (1953)
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Description by Rodell Jefferson III.
Recorded in Fellowship Church, San Francisco, California
Citation: Thurman, Howard, “Men Who've Walked With God: Buddha, 1953 May 3,” The Howard Thurman Digital Archive, accessed July 9, 2024, https://thurman.pitts.emory.edu/items/show/599.
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By Howard Thurman (Uploaded by Duncan Hamra)In this fourth lecture on "The Men Who've Walked with God," Thurman talks about the Buddha and his wrestling with human existence. Thurman says that the Buddha saw the aging and hunger in the world and equated life with suffering. The Buddha's response to this was to root out desire, to renounce attachment to the self. Thurman says that the insight here is that the self is not so much important as much as the act and the deed of the self. The ethical insight of the Buddha is in the purification of desire, which radiates into the moral life as a powerful life-affirming posture.
Part of the Collection, Men Who've Walked with God (1953)
Tags:
Description by Rodell Jefferson III.
Recorded in Fellowship Church, San Francisco, California
Citation: Thurman, Howard, “Men Who've Walked With God: Buddha, 1953 May 3,” The Howard Thurman Digital Archive, accessed July 9, 2024, https://thurman.pitts.emory.edu/items/show/599.