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Lama Surya Das is an American poet, author, and Western Buddhist meditation teacher and scholar. He is one of the main interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism in the West and is a leading spokesperson for American Buddhism. He is also the founder of the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe must never confuse the teacher with the truth.

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FindCenter Quotes ImagePleasure and pain arise from virtuous and non-virtuous actions which come not from outside, but from within yourself.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAn answer seeks to dissolve the question, a response recognizes the ongoing validity of the question, and seeks to remain in connection with it.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAll too easily, however, we can become distracted, scared, frustrated, gullible, cynical, or just plain inattentive. We suppress our natural questing spirit. We plow ahead without taking a good, hard look at what we’re doing and why.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIt is usually a mistake to believe that any opinion or situation is objectively good or bad, since everything depends on the perspective of the viewer.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageOften we cling to habits that aren’t even comforting or satisfying, simply because we are unable to let go or explore new ways to do things.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAs long as we’re preoccupied with our former traumas and triumphs, or our fears and dreams about what might happen down the road, or who said what to whom, it’s very difficult to appreciate and cherish the intrinsically joyful gift of life right here and now.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageSeekers inevitably want to get a better handle on life; we want to figure things out. We know intuitively that the events of our lives are not always arbitrary. We feel connected, however intangibly. We know that it is in our higher self-interest to unravel the mysteries in our own lives.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageMy constant daily question is, ‘What is the best thing I can do now in this situation, given these circumstances? Much is provided; now what is required from me?’

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe need to learn how to live consciously and, trusting ourselves, purposefully on that inevitable balance point between form and emptiness, relative and absolute, being and non-being, self and non-self, time and eternity, the finite and infinite.

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