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A concise elucidation of the next stage on the Buddhist path by one of the foremost American meditation teachers, Lama Surya Das.
09:37 min
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Venerable Thubten Chodron responds to a student's reflections on whether practicing the Dharma is a lonely endeavor.
1980's. Ram Dass gives lecture on internal and external suffering. He says that resisting our suffering creates more suffering for ourselves and for other people. We need to practice listening, and to observe the way the mind responds to somebody's story.
If what it is you want it to simply to be done with this woundedness then you will continue to search for something that temporarily at least makes you feel better.
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All Masters have said, “Aham Brahmasmi” (I am Brahman) and “Tat Twam Asi,” (You are that). Disciples then perform constant shravanam, mananam and nidhidyasanam (listening, reflection and internalization), and through this process they reach the depths of these statements.