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Buddha Standard Time with Lama Surya Das reprinted from www.fireitupwithcj.com We’re all given the same twenty-four hours a day. We can spend our time feeling hurried and harried, overwhelmed by chores and demands, distracted and burned out . . . or we can awaken to Buddha Standard Time, the realm of timelessness where every choice, every action, and every breath can be one of renewal and infinite possibilities. By learning to live in this dimension—Buddha Standard Time—we reduce the amount of stress in our lives and find greater focus, fulfillment, creativity, and even wisdom About...

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As the song goes, “Be kind to our four-legged friends,” but what about our siblings, other relatives, neighbors, friends, or mere acquaintances? Loving actions and empathic compassion are both wise and desperately needed in this violent, competitive world. Just how is it that each of us can live in such a way to contribute toward a happier, healthier, and more loving and sane home, school, community, and world? This is a big question, yet the answer is not out of reach.  I well remember a young child once said to me “Martin Luther King was a great leader — he had big words.  When...

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By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Buddha Standard Time: Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now Lama Surya Das HarperOne 06/11 Hardcover $25.99 ISBN: 9780061774560 We are living in times when everything has been sped up and the result is damage to our bodies through stress and a concerted attack on our souls. Many of us are so addicted to life in the fast lane that we don't ever want to disconnect. In this timely and wide-ranging book, Lama Surya Das, the bestselling author of Awakening the Buddha Within and Buddha Is as Buddha Does, teaches us how to wean ourselves from the time...

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reprinted courtesy Huffington Post, 11/17/11 04:30 PM ET by Lama Surya Das Many people have been asking me of late if Steve Jobs really was a Buddhist. The answer is yes, and for many years. He was a Zen Buddhist, which inspired his simple, informal, monkish black dress code and the meticulously minimalist yet elegant consumer products he so ingeniously designed. If you look at Vincent van Gogh's self-portrait as a Zen monk you'll find many similarities with that other famously difficult creative genius. Perhaps Steve was van Gogh's tulku (reincarnation).Like Jobs, van Gogh was also...

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The Zen of Steve Jobs: Right Livelihood In this engaging article in the Huffington Post, Lama Surya Das discusses the late Steve Jobs in Buddhist perspective.  Surya Das suggests Steve Jobs as an incarnation of Vincent Van Gogh, describes his personal interactions with Jobs,  and how he exemplified the virtuous aspect of the Noble Eight-fold Path taught by Buddha: Step Five, Right Livelihood and True Vocation. "Many people have been asking me of late if Steve Jobs really was a Buddhist. The answer is yes, and for many years..."  Read the full Huffington Post article here How Do I Not Lose My Marbles...

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Terry Jaymes of Seattle's 97.3 KIRO-FM  interviews Lama Surya Das on the topic of his new book 'Buddha Standard Time' Listen here  

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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. www.kpfa.org Sunday, Sept. 25 8:00-8:30PM PST 9:00-9:30PM MST 10:00-10:30PM CST 11:00-11:30PM EST Listen to the archive of this radio show: The...

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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...

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  Truth telling is a rigorous spiritual practice. Buddha's not pretending. We can't just believe whatever we think. We think, therefore, we err. That which we call "I" is just impermanent, ownerless karma rolling along. Don't take it personally. Everyone is a little crazy. Remembering this helps us lighten up. We need a spiritual life, not just special experiences. Grasping fleeting things to tightly gives us rope burn. Awareness practice helps us become more transparent to ourselves. Resistance is another form of clinging. Practice being there while getting there. From...

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"Life in Buddha Standard Time" The Huffington Post, June 4, 2011 The fourteenth-century Christian theologian and mystic, Meister Eckhart, said: To reach the now, where one is present to oneself and to God therein, I say to you, be awake.” It's so simple that it's complicated. People often ask me: How can I make time for meditation, yoga, prayer, and retreats when there is no time? Should I get up earlier? Stay up later? Work faster or less? What about my family and relationships? How do I create spiritual space for myself? But there’s an underlying question: How can I give anything...

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