Science and Nonduality Conference

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-SAND team

Missing you Roberto Turmano!!!! 🥰 Be well beautiful man!
PS: Robert joked all the time that he wanted to be Italian so that how I was calling him... I love you!!!!!

Robert Tenzin Thurman was a cherished teacher and friend of the SAND community, bringing together profound wisdom, infectious humor, and an unwavering faith in humanity’s capacity to awaken. In times of uncertainty, he reminded us that wisdom is not an escape from the world, but a way of meeting it with courage, compassion, and delight.
In one of his recent reflections, he wrote: “Reality is not against us. Life is not a mistake. At its deepest level, existence is meaningful, powerful… and yes, even blissful.” These words capture so much of what he offered: a grounded and intelligent hope rooted in the deepest teachings of the Buddha and in his own boundless love for life.
We honor Robert with immense gratitude for the insight, laughter, and encouragement he shared so generously. May his teachings continue to guide us toward a more compassionate and awakened world.
Here is one of his talks at a past SAND conference
https://scienceandnonduality.com/.../buddhas-message.../

Robert Tenzin Thurman was a cherished teacher and friend of the SAND community, bringing together profound wisdom, infectious humor, and an unwavering faith in humanity’s capacity to awaken. In times of uncertainty, he reminded us that wisdom is not an escape from the world, but a way of meeting it with courage, compassion, and delight.
In one of his recent reflections, he wrote: “Reality is not against us. Life is not a mistake. At its deepest level, existence is meaningful, powerful… and yes, even blissful.” These words capture so much of what he offered: a grounded and intelligent hope rooted in the deepest teachings of the Buddha and in his own boundless love for life.
We honor Robert with immense gratitude for the insight, laughter, and encouragement he shared so generously. May his teachings continue to guide us toward a more compassionate and awakened world.

Here is one of his talks at a past SAND conference
https://scienceandnonduality.com/videos/buddhas-message-have-some-fun-bob-thurman/

Mongolian Dharma Poetry
Podcast with Simon Wickhamsmith
Simon Wickhamsmith is a Buddhist monk turned scholar, computer musician, and one of the only translators of Mongolian literature into English. He teaches in the Writing Program at Rutgers University and has been traveling back and forth to Mongolia since 2006. In this conversation he traces his spiritual path from Catholicism through Tibetan Buddhism and back to medieval Christian mysticism, introduces the Mongolian poet Mend-Ooyo, and takes us deep into the life and poetry of the 19th century Buddhist polymath Danzanravjaa — a figure Simon considers his primary teacher — including a live reading of the poem Twos, a stunning meditation on nonduality from the Mongolian steppe.

listen to the podcast on our website or apple podcasts https://scienceandnonduality.com/audio/mongolian-dharma-poetry/

“Healing begins when we name the injustice, not silence it.”
— Dr. Samah Jabr

What happens when mental health practice refuses to separate personal suffering from political reality?

Join Palestinian psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and author Dr. Samah Jabr for Part 2 of her course on Decolonial Mental Health Practice.

Drawing on decades of clinical work in Palestine, Dr. Jabr explores how trauma, humiliation, displacement, gendered oppression, and structural violence shape the psyche and how healing requires us to examine not only the wound, but the conditions that created it.

This course invites mental health practitioners, humanitarian workers, educators, and advocates into a deeper conversation about ethics, liberation, dignity, and care.

🗓️ July 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2026
✨ Decolonial Mental Health Practice: Clinical & Ethical Insights from Palestine, Part 2

🔗 Register with the link in bio as well as https://scienceandnonduality.com/event/decolonial-mental-health-practice-part-2/