Lama Surya has spent over forty five years studying Zen, Vipassana, Yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with many of the great old masters of Asia, including some the Dalai Lama’s own teachers. The Dalai Lama affectionately calls him “the American Lama”. That’s the secret.Ībout Lama Surya Das Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars. Catch yourself before things catch and entangle you! As every step of the spiritual way is the Great Way of awakening, I suggest: “Be there while getting there, every single step of the way why wait?” It is all within- letting go means letting things come and go, letting be. Remember to remember to pay attention, moment to moment this is Re-mindfulness. Mindfulness is like the opposable thumb of consciousness, which tremendously enhances every aspect of our conscious lives. Through cultivating and developing mindful awareness and lucid presence of mind we enable ourselves to live more fully, and truly inhabit each and every moment of our lives. Mindful living is a way of loving and more fully accepting ourselves as well as befriending ourSelves and the whole world.

Tibet’s secrets of mindful awareness cultivation and enlightenment are not yet well known in the modern world, yet Mindfulness is the chief ingredient in the Compassionate Buddha’s seven-fold recipe for awakening and enlightenment. “When I become clearer, everything becomes clearer.” We are all Buddhas by nature we only have to awaken to that fact, recognizing who and what we are and can be.

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