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Buddha Is as Buddha Does | Lama Surya Das | Talks at Google

By Lama Surya Das
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— 2007

In "Buddha Is as Buddha Does", national bestselling author Lama Surya Das, one of the foremost American Buddhist teachers, offers a thorough, tried-and-true map to the richest treasure a human being can find - Buddha's advice for living to your true potential.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIt may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAny patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIsn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAffliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe are what we believe we are!

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FindCenter Quotes Image'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI gave in, and admitted that God was God.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.

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