“We are so identified with who we think we are that it limits how we can be, determines how we live, and conditions how we react. As Mark Twain said, "It's not what we don't know that gets us in… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
“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… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
“It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us." - Tilopa” — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
“I have been thinking that the crux of happiness matter for me is whether or not I am in the moment, in the flow,… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
“All the happiness and virtue in this world come from selflessness and generosity, all the sorrow from egotism, selfishness, and greed.” — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
“We need to learn how to live consciously and, trusting ourselves, purposefully on that inevitable balance point between form and emptiness, relative and absolute,… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
“All too easily, however, we can become distracted, scared, frustrated, gullible, cynical, or just plain inattentive. We suppress our natural questing spirit. We plow… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
“Non-attachment is not complacency. It doesn't imply a lack of caring and commitment. The philosophy of non-attachment is based in the understanding that holding… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
“By meditating, we´re learning to disengage ourselves from habitual clinging and disperse the defilements and obscurations that hinder our capacity to serve others, such… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
“We all have certain desires and undesired outcomes related to whatever possible course and attitude we take in life, whether it be at the… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
“Partings make us sad; they make us feel as though we are being beaten up by fate; sometimes they make us feel desperate and… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
“With every breath, the old moment is lost; a new moment arrives. We exhale and we let go of the old moment. It is… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
“If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
“Expecting good things to last and unwanted things to stay away forever is simply unrealistic,” — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
