I read it originally in 1999, at my therapist's recommendation and it changed my life. His blog, “Ask the Lama,” can be found at and his lecture and retreat schedule are listed on his website Follow him on Facebook-Lama Surya Das-and is the book that turned me on to Buddhism. He is also a published poet, translator, and chant master. He is also active in interfaith dialogue and charitable projects in the Third World, and has recently turned his efforts towards youth and contemplative education initiatives, what he calls “True higher education and wisdom for life training.”Īs a sought after speaker, Lama Surya Das teaches and lectures around the world, conducting meditation retreats and workshops. As founder of the Western Buddhist Teachers Network with the Dalai Lama, he regularly helps organize its international Buddhist Teachers Conferences. Surya has brought many Tibetan lamas to this country to teach and start centers and retreats over the years. He is the founder of the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts and its branch centers around the United States. He is an authorized lama and lineage holder in the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism, and a personal disciple of the leading grand lamas of that tradition. Lama Surya Das has spent over forty years studying Zen, Vipassana, yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with the great masters of Asia, including the Dalai Lama’s own teachers. The Snow Lion’s Turquoise Mane: Wisdom Tales from Tibet Natural Great Perfection: Dzogchen Teachings and Vajra Songs, with Nyoshul Khenpo The Big Questions: How to Find Your Own Answers to Life’s Essential MysteriesĪwakening the Buddhist Heart: Integrating Love, Meaning, Natural Radiance: Awakening to Your Great Perfectionīuddha Is as Buddha Does: The Ten Transformative Practices of Enlightened Living The Mind Is Mightier Than the Sword: Enlightening the Mind, Opening the Heart His other books include:īuddha Standard Time: Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now He is well known for his internationally bestselling Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World and the sequels in the “Awakening” trilogy, Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Spiritual Life from Scratch and Awakening the Buddhist Heart: Integrating Love, Meaning and Connection into Every Part of Your Life. His most recent book is Make Me One with Everything: Buddhist Meditations to Awaken from the Illusion of Separation. The Dalai Lama affectionately calls him “The Western 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. With lively stories, meditations, and spiritual practices, Awakening the Buddha Within is an invaluable text for the novice and experienced student of Buddhism alike. Meditation Training: Practicing mindfulness, concentration, and awareness of the present moment. Wisdom Training: Developing clear vision, insight, and inner understanding-seeing reality and ourselves as we really are.Įthics Training: Cultivating virtue, self-discipline, and compassion in what we say and do. It illuminates the guidelines and key principles embodied in the noble Eight-Fold Path and the traditional Three Enlightenment Trainings common to all schools of Buddhism: In Awakening the Buddha Within, Surya Das shows how we can awaken to who we really are in order to lead a more compassionate, enlightened, and balanced life. The radical and compelling message of Buddhism tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, love, and power of the Buddha within yet most of us are too often like sleeping Buddhas. Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the definitive book on Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.
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