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Spirit Workshops in Essential Spirituality
09-808 Buddha Is As Buddha Does:
The Ten Original Practices for Enlightened Living
 With Lama Surya Das
Sunday, November 15, 2009
10:00am to 5:00pm
OSIS Credit Value: 1
Cost: $90 Public, $80 OSIS Students and Alumni
Distance Learning Available (click to learn more)
"We must become the wise elders
we wish to see leading and guiding our world."
Spiritual wisdom is an endangered natural resource in our volatile and benighted world today. The altruistic Spiritual Warrior & Awakener-- what Buddhists call a Bodhisattva, a light-being who is unselfishly dedicated to the highest good for the greatest number- is an exemplary role model we and the younger generations need in order to become the changes we wish to see in the world. In his inimitable light and lively, open style, combining both theory and practice; Lama Surya Das will teach us the outer and inner ways and skillful means to bring spirituality into our daily life, at home and at work and in our communities, to transform ourselves and thus help transform the world.
The Bodhisattva Code means to be a spiritual warrior, not a worrier. A Tibetan text says, regarding these paramitas or transcendental virtues as panacean practices: "Generosity is the absence of clinging; Moral Self-discipline is freedom from obscurations and conflicting emotions; Patient Forbearance is not to reify and particularize things as being either this or that, true or false, good or bad; Diligent Effort is to remain free of the egocentric strategies of undertaking and abandoning; Concentrative meditation is the absence of clinging to subject, object and interaction; Wisdom and Selfless Love is the innate awareness which abides nowhere and is stuck on no thing or idea, and is endlessly wish-fulfilling."
 Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars, one of the main interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, and a leading spokesperson for the emerging American Buddhism. The Dalai Lama calls him "The Western Lama."
Surya has spent 35 years studying Zen, vipassana, yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with the great masters of Asia, including the Dalai Lama's own teachers. He teaches, lectures, and conducts retreats worldwide. Lama Surya Das is the author of the recently released The Mind Is Mightier Than the Sword: Enlightening the Mind, Opening the Heart (Doubleday, August 2009) as well as Words of Wisdom (Koa Books, 2008), The Big Questions (2007, Rodale) and Buddha Is As Buddha Does: The Ten Original Practices for Enlightened Living (2007, Harper San Francisco). He is also the author of the best seller Awakening the Buddhist Heart .
Lama Surya Das is a Lineage Holder of the Dzogchen Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in the Rimè (non-sectarian) tradition. For over thirty-five years, including more than eight years in secluded retreat, he has studied with the great masters of Tibetan Buddhism. With his open and lively style, he is particularly effective in the transmission of Buddhism by presenting Buddhist values and insight, as well as methods of practice, in a manner accessible to all. For a Q&A with Lama click here!
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