Surya Das





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Lama Surya Das is an American-born lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He is a poet, chantmaster, spiritual activist and author of many popular works on Buddhism; a teacher and spokesperson for Buddhism in the West. He has long been involved in charitable relief projects in the Third World and in interfaith dialogue. Surya Das is a Dharma heir of Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche, a Nyingma master of the non-sectarian Rime movement. His name, which means "Servant of the Sun" in a combination of Sanskrit (sūrya) and Hindi (das, from the Sanskrit dāsa), was given to him by the Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba.


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Glacier Park 200x300 This Precious LifeThe thing is that this life is so precious and mysterious,


I don’t know what to say about it most of the time.


Words are like birds, passing through the trackless sky.


The dog barking, the sound of the purling stream,


the windamong the weeping willow trees:


how are these not right off the tongue of the Buddha?”


–Lama Surya Das


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“Other people can’t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don’t make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.”
Surya Das

“The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us—it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.”
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“before speaking, notice what motivates your words.”
Surya Das, Awakening The Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World



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