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Lama surya das naropa9/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() May we all join skilled hands and altruistic hearts in furthering that e-motion. In fact, I find it’s not that hard to notice the plenitude of miracles not to mention progress around us, visible to the discerning iye, and I’m grateful and even reverent before it and all to those who’ve worked hard to contribute to that. I’m not sure it’s worse now than ever before, as some people like to say. Life isn’t easy, as Buddha himself said way back then and still gently reminds us. ![]() Integrating the View, the bigger picture, the great perspective, with daily life is the Way, not seclusion or getting away from it all.” ― Lama Surya Dasįor more details visit here – Leave a comment It’s all grist for the mill, worthy of appreciation in its own way. These practical inter-meditations and tantric exercises open portals to oneness in nature, with others, with your higher deepest power, and beyond notions such as distraction and concentration or the conceptual separation between the sacred and the mundane. In these disconnected, plugged-in yet tuned-out times, this unity-yoga of converge-itation, inter-meditative interbeing– which Lama Surya calls co-meditation, or inter-meditation-The We Meditation, or We-ditation (not Me-ditation) is a simple joyful path to see thru the illusion of separation and experience meaningful connectedness and the renowned one-taste of tantric Mahamudra and Dzogchen, the natural Great Perfection. I hope to see ya in July for our next Dzogchen Center meditation retreat in Garrison, NY.įor more details about Lama Surya Das feel free to visit: ġ9 February at 17:00 to 21 February at 15:00 in ESTĥ7 Interlaken Rd, Stockbridge, Massachusetts 01266 And while my hip recuperation period is almost over, I’ll continue on with a bit more physical therapy and exercise, longevity practice, and chanting for a better world and more peace, harmony, mutual understanding, loving-kindness and cooperation. I’ve missed communing with my students and teaching actual meditation. This being my first travel in almost five months, unusual for me it feels so good to be back in the saddle again. I finished my time in Boulder at Ken Wilber’s Integral Center, where our dedicated Boulder sangha held a day-long Saturday meditation retreat– the perfect way to end my stay! Each and every Buddhist community is somewhat different. It was refreshing, inspiring, thought-provoking, and a bit challenging as well. How wonderful to see so many avid young folks, and dedicated faculty and staff too. My visit allowed for time to visit with students and staff as well as teach a few classes. It was hard to beat the mid-March blizzard and get out of Boston by plane two weeks ago as I headed to Boulder, CO, where I was honored to give Naropa University’s Distinguished Lecture sponsored by the Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism. I go home transformed and curious to see what’s next on this path.” ![]() This practice has really opened my heart, melted the frozenness, and almost ripped my guts out. A new retreatant said she felt as if she’d “landed here at a retreat for angels.” Another told me, in a private guidance-interview: “I lived in a beautiful ice palace. Their lovely meditation hall, complete with huge panoramic windows, coupled with vast ocean and mountain views, made skygazing meditations and prayerful devotions, along with daily mindful nature walks, all the more satisfying, especially in these tumultuous times. The Franciscan mission-style Serra Retreat Center– built long ago on the burned out ruins of an original hilltop mansion here, called “The Castle of Emptiness”, created a perfect atmosphere of gentle quietude for our week of Dzogchen practice, sangha friendships old and new, and “koinonia” (spiritual communion and transformation). Spring greetings from the fragrant hills overlooking Malibu, where we’ve just completed our annual spring Dzogchen Center’s weeklong Southern California retreat. ![]()
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