Lama Surya Das

Surya Das

Drawing on three decades of learning from the spiritual masters of Asia, an American lama illuminates the sacred wisdom and practices of Buddhism and shows readers how to integrate them into their lives, relationships, and careers. Reprint. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Eight Steps to Enlightenment : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World

Awakening the Buddha Within

Draws on Buddhist teachings to explain the link between sorrow and inner wisdom, offering comforting guidelines and inspiring stories on how to recover from grief and loss through meditative practices. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Lessons on Change, Loss, and Spiritual Transformation

Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be

The best-selling author of Awakening the Buddha Within provides a practical, easy-to-follow guide that introduces the principles of Buddhism and explains how to apply them to our relationships with others, the world around us, and within ourselves by building more loving and satisfying connections and increasing self-awareness and sensitivity. Reprint.

Integrating Love, Meaning, and Connection Into Every Part of Your Life

Awakening the Buddhist Heart

An American trained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition shows readers the path to creating a healthy, balanced daily spiritual practice using his regimin of prayers, chants, affirmations, rituals, guided meditations, and breathing exercises. Reprint. light. Reprint.

Creating a Personal Spiritual Life

Awakening to the Sacred

One of the most learned and highly trained American-born lamas in the Tibetan tradition offers an introduction to the ten paramitas, or virtues, of Buddhism, with exercises and traditional stories to create a guide for spiritual development.

The Ten Original Practices for Enlightened Living

Buddha Is as Buddha Does

CD includes seven guided Dzogchen meditations.

Awakening to Your Great Perfection

Natural Radiance

Lama Surya Das, renowned spiritual guide and author of the bestselling " Awakening the Buddha Within," expresses his depth of understanding and highly nuanced humor in this collection of witty and inspired sayings. A rich tapestry of insight gems and belly laughs, " Words of Wisdom" will leave you laughing, searching your soul, and asking for more. Each page contains a statement that focuses the reader's attention on an essential concept. An ideal gift book & wisdom treasure for seekers of all faiths. "Using humor and wise, practical ways, Lama Surya Das invites our hearts to awaken to the highest wisdom." - Jack Kornfield, author of " After the Ecstasy the Laundry" "Lama Surya Das' books are a blessing on my bookshelf and a blessing on my heart." - Marianne Williamson, author of" A Return to Love" "[Lama Surya Das' writing] is a resource of great wisdom, wonderful for the soul. - Caroline Myss "Rich, nuanced, and above all practical, [Lama Surya Das' writing] illuminates the path of enlightened living. His depth of wisdom and breadth of experience shine on every page." - Joseph Goldstein "Anybody interested in Buddhism or spirituality in general has much to learn here. Lama Surya Das is wise, intelligent, clear, humorous, and an excellent teacher." - Ram Dass

Words of Wisdom

The best-selling author of Awakening the Buddha Within addresses life's most provocative and tantalizing questions simply, directly, and powerfully. Every life is a journey through the unknown. Along the way, however, we tend to encounter the same perplexing questions again and again. Some are cosmic enigmas that have always tested the human mind: What is my purpose in life? What happens after I die? Others are puzzles presented by daily life in modern society: What, if anything, justifies assisted suicide? What is my personal responsibility to the homeless? According to Lama Surya Das, one of the foremost Western Buddhist scholars and teachers, the more we seek to resolve these mysteries, the more fully we live. Along with his own personal beliefs, the author presents a variety of thoughtful points of view representing different schools of Buddhism, other religions, spirituality in general, and pragmatism. The Big Questions challenges readers in the most stimulating and thoughtful way to formulate individual, authentic responses to life's big questions.

How to Find Your Own Answers to Life's Essential Mysteries

The Big Questions

Lama Surya Das, author of the bestselling Awakening the Buddha Within, is the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition. In this elegant, inspiring book, he integrates essential Buddhist practices with a variety of other spiritual philosophies and wisdom traditions, to show you how to create a personalized spiritual practice based on your own individual beliefs, aspirations, and needs. Through reflections on his own life quest, thoughtful essays, and entertaining stories, Surya Das examines the common themes at the heart of any spiritual path, including faith, doubt, love, compassion, creativity, self-inquiry, and transformation. He then explores prayer, yoga, chanting, guided meditations, breathing exercises, and myriad other rituals, providing practical examples of each that we can use day-to-day to nurture our inner spirit.

What did the Dalai Lama say to the hot dog vendor? "Make me one with everything!" It's a familiar joke, muses Lama Surya Das, and one that holds a profound truth: that in addition to inner peace, meditation is a path for all-inclusive connection. In Make Me One with Everything, he invites us to experience this through the art of inter-meditation and other original practices that allow us to see through the illusion of separation. "If you've ever felt 'at one' with something-your beloved or your child, a forest trail or a favorite song-then you've experienced inter-meditation," explains Lama Surya Das. Based on Tibetan Buddhism's core insights into the inherent essence of who we are, these teachings of shared spirituality offer both new and experienced meditators a better way to live-not just on the meditation cushion or the yoga mat, but in every moment of their lives.

Buddhist Meditations to Awaken from the Illusion of Separation

Make Me One with Everything

Rinpoche Nyoshul Khenpo

Dzogchen teachings and a collection of spontaneous vajra songs.

Dzogchen Teachings and Vajra Songs

Natural Great Perfection

The most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition offers the definitive book on Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker--"a warm, accessible, deep, and brilliantly written exploration and adventure along the Buddhist path" (Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D).

A leading Western Buddhist scholar and author of Awakening the Buddha offers a series of reflections and insights that challenge readers to develop individual, authentic responses to some of life's most provocative questions, from What is my purpose in life? to What happens after I die?

Buddha Standard Time shares one of the great realisations of Buddhism, one that anyone can learn to apply. Buddhist wisdom teaches that the minutes and hours of our days do not simply march from future to present to past – looming, engulfing us, passing us by forever. Rather, each moment is intersected by a fourth dimension, a dimension of timelessness. Only by accessing that timeless dimension, the Buddha believed, can we learn to fully inhabit the Now. As an alternative to our ceaseless hustle and bustle, Surya Das offers readers the possibility of living in Buddha Standard Time. Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike will discover reasons and inspirations, tools and techniques that not only significantly reduce the amount of stress in our lives but help us find more focus, fulfilment, creativity, and even wisdom. The Buddha knew we're always free to live fully and completely in the present moment, and that doing so frees us from the burden of the past and the anxiety about the future. Living in Buddha Standard Time is in no way antithetical to modern life. Far from being at the mercy of time's demands, we will finally realise that we have, in fact, all the time in the world.

Buddha Standard Time

Ieder leven is een reis langs onbekende wegen. Onvermijdelijk lopen we daarbij steeds weer tegen dezelfde vragen aan: sommige daarvan zijn tijdloos en universeel, andere komen voort uit de complexiteit van de moderne samenleving. Lama Surya Das is als geen ander in staat de westerse lezers duidelijk te maken hoe ze het boeddhisme in hun dagelijks leven kunnen integreren. In dit belangrijke en heldere boek behandelt hij de dertig meest ingewikkelde en uitdagende vragen en de antwoorden die in de loop der tijden vanuit verschillende religieuze en spirituele tradities zijn gegeven.

antwoorden op de grote levensvragen

De grote vragen

Este libro aborda uno de los aspectos mas apasionantes de la actividad de traducir: el papel que desempena el traductor en el mundo contemporaneo, caracterizado por la globalizacion, la hibridacion y la asimetria. Partiendo de la desconstruccion de las definiciones esencialistas de la traduccion, el libro se adentra en algunas situaciones de desigualdad entre lenguas y entre culturas que ponen en duda la tan traida y llevada neutralidad del traductor.

Wisdom Tales from Tibet

The Snow Lion's Turquoise Mane

An accessible guide to the essential teachings of Buddhism counsels readers on such topics as developing one's spiritual center, integrating Buddhist principles into a daily life, and making a meaningful difference in the world. Original.

Enlightening the Mind, Opening the Heart : New Dharma Talks

The Mind is Mightier Than the Sword

Derek Lin

Das Derek Lin and Lama Surya

The enduring wisdom of the Tao Te Ching can become a companion for your own spiritual journey.Reportedly written by a sage named Lao Tzu over 2,500 years ago, the Tao Te Ching is one of the most succinct - and yet among the most profound - spiritual texts ever written. Short enough to read in an afternoon, subtle enough to study for a lifetime, the Tao Te Ching distills into razor - sharp poetry centuries of spiritual inquiry into the Tao - the ''''Way'''' of the natural world around us that reveals the ultimate organizing principle of the universe.Derek Lin's insightful commentary, along with his new translation from the original Chinese - a translation that sets a whole new standard for accuracy - will inspire your spiritual journey and enrich your everyday life. It highlights the Tao Te Ching's insights on simplicity, balance, and learning from the paradoxical truths you can see all around you: finding strength through flexibility (because bamboo bends, it is tough to break); achieving goals by transcending obstacles (water simply flows around rocks on its way to the sea); believing that small changes bring powerful results (a sapling, in time, grows into a towering tree).Now you can experience the wisdom and power of Lao Tzu's words even if you have no previous knowledge of the Tao Te Ching. SkyLight Illuminations provides insightful yet unobtrusive commentary that describes helpful historical background, explains the Tao Te Ching's poetic imagery, and elucidates the ancient Taoist wisdom that will speak to your life today and energize your spiritual quest.

Annotated and Explained

Tao Te Ching

Lex Hixon

Babaji Bob Kindler

Yitzhak Buxbaum

Kyogen Carlson

Father Abbot Joseph Homick

Islam, Vedanta, Yoga, Zen, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism — one finds all these and more represented in Nectar of Nondual Truth. And never mind that there are points of difference with regard to practice and approach. You will find a nearly unanimous agreement around the Essence. On the cover, in the scriptural quote for this issue, we find the rishis of ancient India referring to this nondual Reality in terms of “something hidden.” It is indicated by religious traditions as the Pearl of Great Price, the White Dove Ascending, the Bourne of Freedom from Fear, the Ultimate Quest and other expressions which indicate both the beauty of and the difficulty involved in finding this Treasure, and infer the huge amount of self-effort that will have to be undertaken to succeed in this most excellent endeavor. But purity, practice, patience and perseverance — what can stymie the aspiring soul who approaches Divine Reality with such resolve? If one wants to see patina exude from a copper penny, one places it in a damp atmosphere and watches for days, weeks, even months, until that green substance finally issues forth. What a huge amount of work and effort is involved in gaining a few drops sesame oil from hundreds of seeds! Reality is “hidden,” then. Nature is Its sporting-ground, the universe Its Cosmic Mind, thought-force is Its power to create, revealed scripture is Its revelation, and forms and objects are solid reminders of both Its power to create and Its transcendent and unlimited nature. Yet, all of these are reflections, are insentient material principles. The one Spirit, though It pervades them, is independent of them, and they all get their existence and their ability to shine with reflected light from That. It is Svarupa, to quote the ancients, Essential Being, and everything, everyone else, is Svarupavishranti — always resting in this one essential Being.

Extracting Essence

Nectar #10

'Life is about relationships - the relationship we have with ourselves, with each other, with the world, as well as the connection to that which is beyond any of us. WHen our relationships are food, we feel good; when they are bad, we feel awful. Let's accept it:we need each other. We need to feel connected; we need to feel each other's presence and love.' With his first bestseller, Awakening the Buddha Within, Surya Das, the American-born lama, gave the Western world a primer for Tibetan Buddhism. Now, he continues to share this ancient wisdom as he shows us how to integrate all the experiences of our lives, both positive and negative, into our spiritual search. How happy we are with our relationships - with others, the world and ourselves - largely determines how joyous and fulfilled we will be. In Awakening the Biddhist Heart, Lama Surya Das shows us how to use our innate Spiritual Intellgence to build more loving and satisfying connections. As he helps us to increase our self-awareness and sensitivity towards others, making us better mates, parents, friends and members of society, Surya Das demonstrates how we can make our relationships more meaningful as he guides us through Buddhist practices that release negative emotions which enable us to learn from those we love, and those we don't.

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