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I am in Washington, DC, on tour speaking about about my new book, Buddha Is As Buddha Does The Ten Original Practices for Enlightened Living. Last night I spoke to three hundred people at the National Cathedral about Educating for Peace and Wisdom Living. How can we deal with the horrific news about the multiple shooting deaths in Virginia? How can we feel safe and without anxiety as we send our children to school? Our schools are dangerous, our streets and airports are dangerous, our world is dangerous; only our armpits are well protected! What is happening to our children and our society? What...

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I am excited about my new book on how to be a bodhisattva: wisdom warrior, awakener, edifier, enlightened leader and spiritual altruist. It's called Buddha Is As Buddha Does: The Ten Original Practices for Enlightened Living. It is all about spiritual activism and the Bodhisattva Code, explained on the outer, inner and secret or innermost ultimate level, according to the Vajrayana (diamond path) teachings of Tibetan Buddhism. I have dedicated it to the young people just now awakening to the great possibility that they can become part of the solution rather than part of the problem in our troubled...

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Impeccable mindful awareness is the last part of the triad of the meditation training portion of the eight-fold path. Mindfulness means simply being aware and alert with total presence of mind, rather than being absent-minded, mindless, distracted, and inattentive to what we're doing and who we are. There's nothing very mysterious about this. In the ultimate sense life is utterly mysterious, of course, but we don't have to mystify it and make it into something we cannot understand, like theological concepts of hosts of angels dancing on the head of a pin, speculative arguments about God's existence...

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I want to recommend the current movie “Freedom Writers,” which follows in the venerable inspirational tradition of “To Sir with Love,” “Stand and Deliver,” “Music of the Heart” and the more recent “The Ron Clarke Story.”  Freedom Writers, based on a true story, is a wonderful look into the dynamics of the lives of children in our inner city schools and an idealistic, neophyte teacher named Erin Gruwell.  She came among them, helping them make sense of their lives and affecting positive change within her own classroom and then far beyond. As a teacher myself, I know that if a bear...

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SURYA’S BLOG: Making Spiritual Connections April 7, 2004 I got blogged this morning by Mitch Kapor. We were walking his two labradoodles on the beach in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge near Crissy Field, when he told me I should have a blog—as he’d told me nine or ten years ago that I should have a web page for my Buddhist center, which has turned out very well for us. I love California, where good new ideas often come to me. I don’t know who wants or needs to be privy to my thoughts—even I can find them tiresome—but here goes nothing. For you, Mitch. I’ve noticed...

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