8/10/2023 0 Comments Lama surya das center![]() If you have one, could you send it to me, please? (I added a working email address to this comment). QUESTION: I was able to burn the audiobook on 3 cds. It’s so tough you know, getting in touch with my true Buddah Nature, and recogizing that there is no need to feel so lamed and poverty sricken for not being able to attend a meeting with the Dalai Lama, or my favorite bunch of rockstars. But help is on the way… just an hour ago, I bought your audiobook “awakening the buddha within”, to help me out. I DO realize however, that I’m far away from being enlightenment being so judgmental about the retreats that are so terribly expensive. I am SO grateful for the Vipassana/Goenka retreats. 750 EURO.Īwakening and spiritituality? Just Big Biznizz. Just today I got a newsletter for a 7 day Jeff Foster – Retreat – Awakening from the dream in Holland. NO one is left out, and cannot attend because you can’t afford those scandalous prices I see asked everywhere for retreats. Those who have a lot, give a lot, who have less, give less. But of course we ALL give proportionally. Soon, I will go to my yearly 10 day Vipassana silence retreat (as taught by Goenka). Well… that’s about the price that was also asked for a gig by 3 of my favorite musicians (Nick Lowe, Flaco Jiminez and Ry Cooder in Carre, also a big theater in Amsterdam last week… All tickets were sold old by the way, for Rockstar His Holiness as well as for the other rockstars. To me it seems His Holiness is like a famous rockstar. The ticketprice for each session of about 3 hours was about 150 EURO. He gave 3sessions a day, in a congress center, just a 2 mins walk from where I live. His Holiness was in my backyard (Amsterdam/Netherlands) beginning of June 2009. This is the joy of authentic inner spiritual being. I think the moral of this story is that finding inner peace and the wealth of contentment makes one wise and happy, far beyond external conditions and circumstances. In NYC when asked what makes him happiest, the Dalai Lama replied: “Oh I don’t know (laughs), yes, I know, talking to you people, talking and talking bla bla bla bla bla!” People there just fell out laughing with him. ![]() This simple sense of humor was present throughout his entire speech, with several light- hearted remarks and playful gestures punctuating the two-hour-long session. ![]() His many books include The Big Questions, Buddha Is as Buddha Does. During a short question and answer session after one of his talks at University of Wisconsin in Madison, when asked what the source of his strength was in the face of trouble his honest and straight-forward answer of “Good food, good sleep,” was met with many laughs and applause. He is an author, meditation teacher, poet, and founder of the Dzogchen Meditation Center. War is an outmoded form of conflict resolution.”Īlthough he is learned philosopher and a doctor of divinity, as well as a disciplined lifelong monk and meditation master, His Holiness is sharing personally his own feelings and pleasures. The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1989) often counsels us that, “This century must be an era of dialogue rather than of bloodshed. His hearty message is always one of peace and harmony, tolerance and reconciliation coupled with a constant call for and commitment for human rights and universal responsibility for our human family as well as the environment and all species. Now I really like today’s three words: listen, learn, love.” “Education opens that potential, so it’s extremely important. “Human intelligence is something of great potential,” he told a rapt audience of several thousand at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. A few weeks ago, Lama Surya Das, who is known by such lauded names as The American Lama, The Jolly Lama, and a Dzogchen Master Teacher spoke at an event I attended about death and dying. He is also a poet, translator, spiritual teacher, and authorized lama in the Tibetan Buddhist order.įor more information about Surya Das’s work visit: Dalai Lama of Tibet is in the USA these days, speaking at universities and teaching publicly at venues including Radio City Music Hall in New York City. He is the founder of the Dzogchen Meditation Centers, a leading spokesman for Buddhism and contemporary spirituality, and has often been featured in the mainstream media. ![]() For more information, visit Surya Das, who His Holiness the Dalai Lama calls the American Lama, has spent more than thirty-five years studying with the great spiritual masters of Asia, eight of them in a cloistered Tibetan retreat and fifteen years in the Himalayas. Surya is the founder of the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, MA and Austin, TX, and the author of many books, including the international bestseller, Awakening the Buddha Within (Broadway Books, 1997) and Awakening to the Sacred (Harmony, 1999). Lama Surya Das is one of the most learned and highly trained American-born lamas in the Tibetan Dzogchen tradition.
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