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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.
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“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)
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“A watershed work.”
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“Filled with a treasure trove of ethical practices and meditations…[Listeners] will be amply rewarded.”
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“His most influential book to date.”
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“Thurman delivers life-changing lessons.”
— Snow Lion magazine
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Finalist for the 2014 Books for a Better Life Award in Spirituality
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About Robert Thurman
Robert A. F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, president of the Tibet House US, and president of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies. He was named by Time magazine as one of its twenty-five most influential Americans in 1997. He is a translator of Tibetan texts and author of many books on Tibet, Buddhism, art, politics, and culture, including Circling the Sacred Mountain, Essential Tibetan Buddhism, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and Why the Dalai Lama Matters.