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Lama Surya Das _ Awakening the Buddha Within:
New karma is being made all the time. When one acts with a positive motivation, goodness is furthered. When one acts out of negative motivation, negativity is furthered. "We can recondition ourselves to act with wisdom. The important thing to understand here is that you are not a victim. You are your own master. 'As you sow, so shall you reap.
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Lama Surya Das _ The Big Questions: A Buddhist
Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
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Lama Surya Das _ The Big Questions: A Buddhist
We are obliged to live as if there's meaning in life, without any guarantee that there is.
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Lama Surya Das _ The Big Questions: A Buddhist
All the happiness and virtue in this world come from selflessness and generosity, all the sorrow from egotism, selfishness, and greed.
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Lama Surya Das _ The Big Questions: A Buddhist
opting for happiness and contentment is a decision that we can make at any time and that needs to be continually remade at every turn.
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Lama Surya Das _ The Big Questions: A Buddhist
The past is over, and the future is unknown. We can dwell in the imagined worlds of yesterday and tomorrow if we so choose. But the more we do so, the more we miss out on life itself as it is happening, moment by moment, and the more we fail to realize who we actually are, moment by moment."
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Lama Surya Das _ Letting Go of the Person You
I went to a charnel ground for the practice of Chod a few dozen times in India and in Nepal. Several times I went to a place near a meat slaughterhouse where thousands of water buffalo bones were piled high in macabre pyramids. One night as I was chanting, the bones began to shift, move, and rattle about. I didn't think it was a ghost or demon, but I did imagine that some kind of huge rat or snake was making its way through the immense pile. I must admit I was scared out of my wits, although I somehow managed to keep chanting, praying, and practicing the somber meditation and visualization until dawn. Was I ever happy when that night ended!
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Lama Surya Das _ Buddha Standard Time:
When we ground ourselves in the present moment, we spontaneously connect better with others. We become more responsive and less reactive, listening more deeply and speaking with greater clarity.
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Lama Surya Das _ Letting Go of the Person You
Partings make us sad; they make us feel as though we are being beaten up by fate; sometimes they make us feel desperate and without real connections or roots. When we are torn away from those we love, we suffer from intense feelings of longing and loneliness.
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Lama Surya Das _ Letting Go of the Person You
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
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Lama Surya Das _ The Big Questions: A Buddhist
As long as we're preoccupied with our former traumas and triumphs, or our fears and dreams about what might happen down the road, or who said what to whom, it's very difficult to appreciate and cherish the intrinsically joyful gift of life right here, now.
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Lama Surya Das _ Letting Go of the Person You
Expecting good things to last and unwanted things to stay away forever is simply unrealistic,
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