9/8/2023 0 Comments Lama surya das naropaHe has long been involved in charitable relief projects in the Third World and in interfaith dialogue. He is a poet, chantmaster, spiritual activist and author of many popular works on Buddhism a teacher and spokesperson for Buddhism in the West. Surya Das (born Jeffrey Miller in 1950) is an American-born lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. If you are in this seat, remember to pay homage to the Buddha sitting in your seat: please don’t overlook her! Most of us strive to do the best we can amidst life’s inevitable challenges, obstacles, and surprises. But don’t take my word for it–check it out. When you learn to better love and accept yourself, the world follows suit this is ancient, timeless wisdom. Self-compassion is an important part of cultivating lovingkindness and warm empathic compassion which feels what others are feeling and resonates with them. When people write me of their struggles to lead a more fulfilled life, I often see that many are very hard on themselves, prompting me to remind them to lighten up, enlighten up a little and give themselves a break. May we all join skilled hands and altruistic hearts in furthering that e-motion. In fact, I find it’s not that hard to notice the plenitude of miracles not to mention progress around us, visible to the discerning iye, and I’m grateful and even reverent before it and all to those who’ve worked hard to contribute to that. I’m not sure it’s worse now than ever before, as some people like to say. Lama Surya Das teaches us how to do so in the spirit of enlightenment, great practical wisdom, humility, and effective compassion.Life isn’t easy, as Buddha himself said way back then and still gently reminds us. Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love “It is inevitably painful to deal with transition, change, suffering, death, and other losses.We must face them with courage, grace, clarity, and wisdom. Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen master and author of Peace Is Every Step “Lama Surya Das makes the Buddha nature seem very real and accessible.” To me this is a great achievement and I feel deeply grateful for it.” What People are Saying About Lama Surya Das “Lama Surya Das communicates the wisdom of Buddhism to the people of his times and environments. Today, Lama Surya Das teaches and lectures around the world, conducting dozens of meditation retreats and workshops each year and is a regular contributor at the Huffington Post and Elephant Journal, as well as writing his own blog Ask The Lama ( ). His most recent book is The Mind is Mightier Than the Sword: New Dharma Talks, and the forthcoming book, Buddha Standard Time: Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now. Surya Das is a leading spokesperson for Buddhism and contemporary spirituality, a translator, poet, meditation master, chant master, spiritual activist, and author of many books, including his best-selling Awakening Trilogy: Awakening the Buddha Within, Awakening to the Sacred, and Awakening the Buddhist Heart. He is an authorized lama (priest and spiritual master teacher) in the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism and is founder of the Western Buddhist Teachers Network with the Dalai Lama, and founder and spiritual director of the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and its branch centers. He has twice completed the traditional three-year cloistered meditation retreat at his teacher’s Tibetan monastery. Surya Das has spent 45 years studying Zen, vipassana, yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with the great masters of Asia, including the Dalai Lama’s own teachers. The Dalai Lama affectionately calls him “the American Lama.” Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars, one of the main interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, and a leading spokesperson for the emerging American Buddhism.
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