Lama Surya Das and Denise Keniston spend an afternoon in the garden – summer of 2019. They talk about a wide range of spiritual topics. In this episode, they explore "Consciousness"."There are different conditions of same nature. This is the Buddhist way of looking at oneness"
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Lama Surya Das and Denise Keniston spend an afternoon in the garden - summer of 2019. They talk about a wide range of spiritual topics. This is excerpt #5: "Gradual Awakening."
"Most of us need to use the "pickling process" to awaken."
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In this short clip from their summer 2019 interview, former TV news anchor Denise Keniston and Lama Surya discuss the big subject of enlightenment?
"Awareness is all"
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Lama Surya Das and Denise Keniston spend an afternoon in the garden - summer of 2019. They talk about a wide range of spiritual topics. This is excerpt #3: "On Mindfullness."
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On a beautiful summer day, Lama Surya Das and Denise Keniston sat down in his backyard in Lexington, Mass. This is the second in a series of edited clips from that magical afternoon. Lama and Denise discuss “Why do we forget?”
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"This breath, this moment, this miraculous life...thank you"
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In this short clip from a longer interview with former network news anchor Denise Keniston, Lama Surya shares with us how even the simplest words can create an instant meditation.
A good question is better than an easy answer.
Artwork by: Paul Gauguin (1848 – 1903), "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?"
"Even death is nothing to fearFor those who have lived wisely."~ The Buddha
They say everyone dies, and all things shall pass away. All is impermanent, fleeting, ungraspable. And yet, who shall truly live? What is our true life meant to be? And what does that even mean? This is my question for you, Dear Seekers and pilgrims in life. How to live and be(come) who and what we genuinely are and aspire towards? How to become the mensches we...
The brilliance and perception of a beautiful, young mind.
Below is the poem the first National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman read at the inauguration of our 46th President, Joseph R. Biden on January 20, 2020
When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, a sea we must wade. We’ve braved the belly of the beast, we’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn’t always justice. And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it, somehow we do it, somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed...
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