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Lama Surya Das

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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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How Can We Respond to Violent Hate?

Three messages by prominent Buddhists address the recent mail bombing campaign and deadly shootings.

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Lawrence Levy, Lama Surya Das, Robert Wright
2018
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FindCenter Quotes ImageEnlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it’s about becoming more fully human . . . It is the end of ignorance.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe more truthful I am with myself and others, the more my conscience is clear and tranquil. Thus, I can more thoroughly and unequivocally inhabit the present moment and accept everything that happens without fear, knowing that what goes around comes around (the law of karma).

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us—it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageBefore speaking, notice what motivates your words.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageOther people can’t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don’t make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageForgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageBreath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness. Let go. Let Be.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageOur sorrows provide us with the lessons we most need to learn.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageFor it is not what happens to us that determines our character, our experience, our karma, and our destiny — but how we relate to what happens.

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