Infinite Life

by Robert Thurman; Read by the author

• ISBN13: 9781593973704
• ISBN10: 1593973705
• Edition: Abridged
• Format: CD
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Summary

One of Time magazine's 25 Most Influential People in America writes about taking responsibility for our own happiness and our actions
Robert Thurman is America's most popular and charismatic Buddhist. His first book, Inner Revolution, is an international bestseller and his lectures sell out to thousands.
Infinite Life demonstrates that our every action has infinite consequences for ourselves and others, here and now and after we are gone. He introduces the Seven Paths 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 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.

Author Biography

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