| Event Name: | Buddha Standard Time |
| Description: | Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now
LAMA SURYA DAS
“Lama Surya Das is one of our best teachers of universal wisdom. Buddha Standard Time is fairly dripping with insights. It’s like a treasure to keep near you at all times.” - - Marianne Williamson, author of The Age of Miracles
“A wealth of inspiration and practical tips for enjoying the Kingdom of God, the Pure Land of the Buddha, *now*. - bestselling author Thich Nhat Hanh
"If you want your future moments to sparkle with ecstatic awareness read this book." - Ram Dass
Buddha Standard Time shares one of the great realisations of Buddhism, one that anyone can learn to apply. Buddhist wisdom teaches that the minutes and hours of our days do not simply march from future to present to past - looming, engulfing us, passing us by forever. Rather, each moment is intersected by a fourth dimension, a dimension of timelessness.
Only by accessing that timeless dimension, the Buddha believed, can we learn to fully inhabit the Now. As an alternative to our ceaseless hustle and bustle, Surya Das offers readers the possibility of living in Buddha Standard Time. Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike will discover reasons and inspirations, tools and techniques that not only significantly reduce the amount of stress in our lives but help us find more focus, fulfilment, creativity, and even wisdom.
The Buddha knew we're always free to live fully and completely in the present moment, and that doing so frees us from the burden of the past and the anxiety about the future. Living in Buddha Standard Time is in no way antithetical to modern life. Far from being at the mercy of time's demands, we will finally realise that we have, in fact, all the time in the world.
Lama Surya Das
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 affectionately calls him “The Western Lama.”
Lama Surya Das spent forty years studying Zen, vipassana, yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with the great masters of Asia, including the Dalai Lama’s own teachers, and has twice completed the traditional three year meditation cloistered retreat at his teacher’s Tibetan monastery. He is an authorized lama and lineage holder in the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism, and a close personal disciple of the leading grand lamas of that tradition. He is the founder of the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and its branch centers around the country, including the retreat center Dzogchen Osel Ling outside Austin, Texas, where he conducts long training retreats and Advanced Dzogchen retreats. He has brought many Tibetan lamas to this country to teach and start centers and retreats over the years. Founder of the Western Buddhist Teachers Network with the Dalai Lama, he regularly helps organize its international Buddhist Teachers Conferences; he is also active in interfaith dialogue and charitable projects in the Third World. He has recently turned his efforts towards youth and contemplative education initiatives, what he calls “True higher education and wisdom for life training”.
Lama Surya Das is a sought after speaker, and teaches, lectures, and conducts retreats around the world. Lama Surya Das is the author of many books, including his latest release, Buddha Standard Time: Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now (May 2011), The Mind is Mightier than the Sword: Enlightening the Mind, Opening the Heart (August 2009), Buddha is as Buddha Does: The Ten Transformative Practices of Enlightened Living (April 2007), Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World (July 1998), Awakening the Buddhist Heart: Integrating Love, Meaning and Connection into Every Part of Your Life (November 2000), and Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Spiritual Life from Scratch (May 1999). |
| Type of Event: | Spiritual Events - Meditation - Yoga |
| Event Agenda: | £10/5 concs. |
| Event Location: | ST JAMESS CHURCH |
| Event City: | London |
| Type of Venue: | Religious - Church - Temple |
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| Event Start Date | 27-Feb-12 |