Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Englightenment - Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World - Softcover

Lama Surya Das

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9780553505375: Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Englightenment - Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World

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ISBN 10: 0553505378 ISBN 13: 9780553505375

Publisher: Bantam, 1997

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Drawing on Buddhist spirituality and wisdom, this is a view of the world written for Western seekers.

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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 delivery 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-old tradition that comes off as anything but ancient. With the "Five T's of Concentration," the question of "need or greed," and the story 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-earth as a worn pair of loafers. It's not an easy 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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In lively language and filled with stories, examples, and spiritual practices, New York born Lama Surya Das shares and interprets the comprehensive wisdom of ancient Tibetan teachings. By showing that the power of the Buddha is resting within us all, he instructs how we can awaken our Buddha self and walk the liberating path of mindful and compassionate living.

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