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Religious disciplines often appear distant from the realities of our day to day lives. Yet there is a Mahayana Scripture which presents a model of enlightened practice in the midst of metropolitan living, the Vimalakirti Sutra. This shows a non-dualistic wisdom and reconciliation of dichotomies. It issues ordinariness and shows systematic and effective means of tapping higher potentials while upholding one's usual responsibilities and enriching long-term romantic relationships. Robert Thurman examines one of the very most sacred texts of Mahayana Buddhism, The Vimalakirti-nirdesha Sutra. To any Buddhist specialist, specifically those of Vajrayana Buddhism and Zen, this sutra is of the utmost importance. Unlike most sutras, its central body is not really a Buddha, but an ordinary man, who, in his mastery of the doctrine and spiritual practice, personifies the perfect lay believer, guaranteeing commoners that they can reach degrees of spiritual attainment much like those accessible to monks. The sutra teaches, among other themes, the meaning of non-duality. Thurman talks about the background of the sutra, its place in the development of Buddhist thought, and the profundities of its principal doctrine: emptiness.
