Lunch with Bokara
COMPASSION IN ACTION
with Robert Thurman and Dr. Larry Brilliant

Available on DVD and video cassette

Select a Program from the Series:
Meditation, Emotions & Body Language
Food for the Soul
Healing, Family & Community
The Monk & The Rabbi
Transformation and Mindfulness
Zen and the Art of African Initiation
Compassion in Action
The Heart of Islam
Myths, Money and Meaning
The Taoist and the Activist
Peace through Dialogue
Our Place in the Cosmos
God is Everywhere...and Nowhere

Dr. Robert Thurman, Professor of Indo-Buddhist studies at Columbia University, inspiring teacher, lecturer and author of twelve books, discusses the fruition of spiritual practice - our work in the world, with Dr. Larry Brilliant , the epidemiologist who founded the SEVA Foundation, which has returned sight to over two million indigenous people in South America and Asia with free cataract operations. Dr. Brilliant headed the medical team which stamped out small pox in India in the 1970's. Today he is back in India working on the spreading polio epidemic. This program will discuss the practice of Compassion in our personal and worldly lives. How is a spiritual practice, whatever it may be, taken into the larger society in a useful way?

"Compassion can only come from wisdom, it doesn't come from a sentimental idea, like 'I should be compassionate'. Compassion comes naturally when you know the nature of the world - knowing that you and the other person are one people, one being."
Robert Thurman

"The happiest people that I know are the ones who are in service to others. There is nothing that can make you happier - nothing - no piece of art, no accomplishment, no trick, no candy bar, no ice cream cone - nothing can make you as happy and as fulfilled, as when you are doing for others. And all the neurosis that we have accumulated disappear in a heart beat, the moment you are genuinely engaged in helping other people."
Dr. Larry Brilliant