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| “Change is universal law, and we are all changing. Yet too many of us are still dragging our heels and resisting incremental change, while the world around us is changing exponentially. We are increasingly interconnected, and yet still maintain a mentally of fragmentation and isolationist egotism. It seems that advanced technologies can help solve more problems now, and faster. This is an age of social mobility and choices–the choice to speak up and participate, the choice to make a change, the choice to be a leader. I am far more interested in inculcating leadership than followership among my students and truth-seekers. Tie around your own head the leash that leads from the tip of your nose.”
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| The Reverence of Attention
You come to learn, you’re asking to be taught, and what you give is your attention. That can include asking skeptical questions, intellectual questions, any kind of questions. Devotion and reverence don’t necessarily depend on bows and accolades. – Lama Surya Das, “Old Wine, New Bottles” |
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| I always say that everyone is crazy, especially you and me; that helps me take things more lightly and maintain my sense of humor. Life ain’t much fun when we take ourselves too seriously. – Lama Surya Das – Lama Surya Das, New Dharma Talk 2011 |
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| “It’s not time and energy that we lack, but focus. Present awareness is curative.”
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| As these days seem to get longer, and more challenging, let’s focus on staying afloat, together– with loving kindness and mindful words, prayers and actions. Love and blessings, Lama Surya Das – Lama Surya Das, Dzogen Center |
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 “At the heart of every experience and
every moment is the timeless and infinite, as the sages throughout the ages sing out in a single chorus! What keeps us, keeps me, from experiencing and singing it out right now? Nothing.” – Lama Surya Das Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for July 25, 2019
 “What did the Dalai Lama say to the hot dog vendor? ‘Make me one with everything.’
It’s a joke—and a pretty good one—but there’s more to it than that. Becoming one with everything by seeing through separateness and rigidity is the heart of what I call inter-meditation. Inter-meditation means meditating with—the practice and art of intimacy and union with whatever is, just as it is. It is the yoga of convergence, connection, co-meditation, and spontaneous oneness. It’s a path we can take to overcome all our illusions of duality.” – Lama Surya Das Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for June 10, 2019
 Practicing With Loss
Loss is a fact of life. Impermanence is everywhere we look. We are all going to suffer our losses. How we deal with these losses is what makes all the difference. For 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. – Lama Surya Das, “Practicing With Loss” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 19, 2019
 I’m grateful for every day as a holyday, and count my many blessings, with cherishment and reverence, including all of you.
The body is like a vehicle; the head is the office or driver’s seat, but the heart is our home. As this holyday season approaches, may we all together take a collective moment to count our blessings and feel the warmth of gratitude in our good hearts. – Lama Surya Das |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 17, 2019
 Awakening to Ourselves
Buddhism is really about awakening from the illusion about ourselves and the world, and realizing reality–who we are and what is real and how things are interconnected through karma and causation and so on. In a Dzogchen text it says, “From the beginning we are all Buddhas by nature, we only have to realize that fact.” So in Dzogchen the whole practice of what we call the view, meditation, and action is about awakening to–not just our momentary personality–“self” with a small s–but our true Buddha nature, our original nature. – Lama Surya Das, “Old Wine, New Bottles” |
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