LAMA SURYA DAS
Letting Go of Who You Used to Be:
Buddhist Lessons on Spiritual Growth
Through Loss and Change
Course ID: | TTT-07 |
Original Dates: | 4/5, 4/12, 4/19, 4/26 (2006) |
Archived Content: | MP3 (digital audio file) recordings / PDF transcripts | Price: | $60.00 |
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Course Description:
For many people, the past years have been characterized by profound change, whether it relates to financial upheaval, political shifts, or even massive losses of life to disease and violence. Buddhism has a lot of teaching and practical exercises about change and impermanence, and how to gain through loss and suffering, according to what Surya calls "The Pearl Principle: no inner irritation, no pearl." It is not what happens to us, but how we relate to it, that makes all the difference. Thus the Buddhist adage: "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."
These lessons will help us learn acceptance, letting go, forgiveness, and guidance on how to growthfully undergo healthy grieving and recovery processes, leading to spiritual renewal and inner peace.
The beloved American Lama, a spiritual leader whose inimitable light and lively universal teaching style has awakened the spirituality of thousands, now shares an enlightened approach to change and loss, dealing with difficult emotions such as fear, grief and anger, how to meaningfully deal with crisis-- including the insight that change provides our most important opportunity for insight into our authentic selves and the nature of reality. A voice of clarity in difficult times, Surya Das offers timeless wisdom in the form of a timely message helpful for us today and tomorrow, and a singularly welcome new message of hope in confronting difficult times.
Recommended Readings:
Lama Surya Das. Awakening the Buddha Within : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World. Broadway, 1997.
Lama Surya Das. Awakening the Buddhist Heart : Integrating Love, Meaning and Connection into Every Part of Your Life. Broadway, 2001.
Lama Surya Das. Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Daily Spiritual Life : Creating a Spiritual Life from Scratch. Broadway, 2000.
Lama Surya Das. Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be : Lessons on Change, Loss, and Spiritual Transformation. Broadway, 2003.
Teacher Bio:
Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Lamas and Buddhist teachers, and founder of the Dzogchen Centers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and its branch centers in New York City, New Jersey, California, Portland, and Texas. Lama Surya Das is a published poet, translator, and chantmaster, leads retreats around the world, and is active in interfaith dialogue. He lived in the Himalayas for fifteen years, and with the Dalai Lama founded the Western Buddhist Teachers Conferences.
He is the author of six books, including the best-selling Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World, and his newest book Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be: Lessons on Change, Loss and Spiritual Transformation (August 2003).
For more information, please visit: Dzogchen.org and Surya.org
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