| THURMAN: The reason we are not compassionate in a reality where we have abundance, where we have sensitivity, where we have each other, where we have interconnection with a miraculous web of beauty, generosity and so on, is that our ignorance makes us try to grab things for ourselves. Our basic ignorance makes us reject other people and fight - us against this vast thing - and think that we are somehow separate, which we are not. There is no separate thing, no independent, absolutely-established 'I' unconnected to the rest of the universe. | |||
| p. 108 | |||
| Diana L. Eck, et al. |
"Dialogue: Buddhism, Psychology & the Cognitive Sciences" MindScience: An East-West Dialog Wisdom Books, 1994 |
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| Thurman is a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies at Columbia University. | |||
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