Awakening the Buddha Within : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World
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Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the first comprehensive book of Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.
Buddhism offers a profound yet practical path to enlightenment. In this loving and generous book, the American-born and Tibetan-trained Lama Surya Das offers at once a definitive and nonsectarian guide to the wisdom establish in very ancient Tibetan teachings and a tried and right path of spiritual transformation.
The radical and compelling message of Buddhism tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, like, and power of the Buddha within; yet most of us are too regularly like sleeping Buddhas. Surya Das shows how we can awaken to who we really are and thus walk the liberating, peaceful path of mindful and compassionate living. With lively language, meditations, and spiritual practices, this unique book provides a bridge between East and West, past, present, and future.
Awakening the Buddha Within offers a perfect yet accessible understanding of the unique Buddhist teachings embodied in the traditional Noble Eight-Fold Path and its Three Enlightenment Trainings, common to all schools of Buddhism:
This fresh and original work illuminates such key principles as karma (what we do does matter), rebirth (every moment is an opportunity to start afresh), letting go (simplifying our lives by clarifying our hearts and minds), as well as conscious living and dying, and Dzogchen, the essential, mystical teaching of Tibet.
In this wonderful marriage of the timeless and the timely, Surya Das has written an invaluable, authoritative text for the novice and the veteran student of Buddhism alike. Awakening the Buddha Within reveals how sacred wisdom, contemplative practice, and altruism can be integrated into our outer and inner lives–in our relationships, in the workplace, and at home.
Here is a guidebook to enlightenment–a sourcebook of the sacred for anyone who wants to lead a more serene and gorgeous life.Amazon.com Review
If you dropped the Buddha into a modern metropolis, would he come off sounding like a 16th-century morality play or more like a drive-time disc jockey? Lama Surya Das doesn’t spin platters for a living, but he does have a hip manner of language that belies his years of sheltered training in Buddhist monasteries. In Awakening the Buddha Within, he borrows a time-tested bestseller format for a 2,500-year-ancient tradition that comes off as anything but very ancient. With the “Five T’s of Concentration,” the question of “need or greed,” and the tale of the monk who bears his backside to prove a point, Surya Das invokes a path of wisdom that is as accessible and down-to-planet as a worn pair of loafers. It’s not an simple path–it demands thought, effort, and discipline. But Surya Das is there for you, lighting the way to wisdom training, coaxing you into ethics training, and laying out step by step the path of meditation training. And if that’s not enough to get you to live in the now, consider these words of the enlightened lama: “You must be present to win.” –Brian Bruya
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while others may sincerly like this book by self proclaimed best trained or whatever western Lama surya das,i establish the book ,like the person himself to be like quick food dosnt satisfy hunger deeply leaves greasy aftertaste thats hard to qualify ,but i know i dont care for this style,thanks
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
perhaps impressive to persons new to Dharma-this is in the opinion of many older students a rather trivial watered down approach to a theme of fantastic depth and devious distinctions.For a all-purpose introduction Sogyal Rinpoche’s Tibetan Book of Living and dying is a far better place to start,and there are many books on this theme that will provide better longerlasting nutrition than this Dharma quick food approach.Also the copious unsavory tales about the leader,surya das,make this book even less appealing
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Being a sceptical logically minded person of a catholic upbringing I have recently opened up my mind to new religions and faiths, in order to find the right one for me or to take the best of a few. This is why i bought this book. At first the tale of the leader drew me in and I started to listen to the lessons that were being tought. But over time I establish the book disturbing in the way it led from offering points of view and describing what was believed right by the different buddhist faiths to force feeding the reader with what’s right and incorrect, and which path is ideally followed.
Overall I was dissapointed with how the book was written but I still learnt alot about the buddhist faith, I just reflect we should follow our faith in our own way, a non uniformist buddhist way is, i judge, what the future needs.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Surya Das is obviously a convincing teacher, and in this he does excellent. And sorry to say, as Gurdjieff noted, the cheif trait of human beings is their gullability. While Tibetan Buddhism is an extraordinary path of spiritual unfoldment, and there are scores of remarkable teachers and realized beings in this tradtion, Surya Das himself is anything but. He is a hypster, of whom most of his Tibetan teachers are ashamed. Though he capitalizes on their identities all over his web site, they are too polite (Tibetan style) to beg him to remove them from any association with him. He was a laughing stock among his peers in his training days, and now holds himself as a self-styled guru. While he may help begginers, he ultimately dissapontts as a hypocrite whose inner world really revolves around self-agrandisement. Read teachers like Tenzin Wangyal or so many additional lamas who speak from experience, not cleverness.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
If your looking to undstand buudhism or just want to make your life more meaninful then just read this book. It’s very excellent.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5