Recently I was invited to teach a weekend Dzogchen meditation retreat again at the Tibetan Mongolian Cultural Center in Bloomington, Indiana. While I was visiting we celebrated the spiritual director Arjia Rinpoche's birthday. My contribution to this happy occasion was a little birthday poem for the Very Venerable Arjia Rinpoche, who only escaped from Communist China about ten years ago and was appointed abbot at this long standing center by the Dalai Lama himself.
The Man from Tibet
The Man from Tibet knows his languages, and enjoys the gift of tongues as well; He communicates with...
Tricycle Book Club presents
Buddha Standard Time: Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now
reprinted with permission from Tricycle.com
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Many of us feel that the modern efforts to save time have backfired, bringing onerous new problems of their own. Our technological advances and
Lama Surya Das LIVE on KPFA 94.1
San Francisco, 9/25/2011
Lama Surya Das will be interviewed in a LIVE interactive radio show “The Week Starts Here”, hosted by Veronica Faisant on Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 8pm PST. Listeners in all time zones can tune in on the web at www.kpfa.org, and San Franciso radio listeners can tune in to FM 94.1- KPFA. Callers can submit live questions via Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/KPFA.VF.
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Today the human soul asks the question: What can I do to preserve the beauty and wonder of our world and to eliminate the anger and hatred and inequality that inevitably causes it-- in that part of the world which i touch?
...What can you do TODAY, this very moment?"
-- The Dalai Lama, Sept. 11, 2001
Lama Surya Das LIVE on KPFA 94.1 San Francisco, 9/25/2011
Lama Surya Das will be interviewed in a LIVE interactive radio show “The Week Starts Here”, hosted by Veronica Faisant on Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 8pm PST. Listeners in all time zones can tune in on the web at www.kpfa.org, and San Franciso radio listeners can tune in to FM 94.1- KPFA. Callers can submit live questions via Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/KPFA.VF.
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On Faith, the Washington Post’s religion website invited me, along with a diverse group of the country’s most prominent religious leaders, to reflect on the spiritual impact of 9/11, and share what we have learned about religion in the past ten years. See full article on Washington Post.
REMEMBER TO REMEMBER
by Lama Surya DasA wise Zen master once gave his meditation students the almost unanswerable koan, or existential riddle: “What is the most important thing?”
September 11, 2001 was such a Zen teaching moment, a fit koan for our time. As Americans sought answers and spiritual...
Dzogchen is the consummate practice of Tibetan Buddhism. A pure awareness practice applicable to any circumstance and readily integrated into modern life, Dzogchen directly introduces us to the inherent freedom, purity and perfection of being that is our true nature.
"This book is wonderful--a treasure house of liberating Dharma. Nyoshul Khenpo's wisdom...opens our minds and inspires our practice."--Joseph Goldstein, author of Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom
"A spiritual gem. These heart-songs and teachings of this spiritual master are essential reading."--Daniel...
