Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World by Broadway Books $16.00
Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the definitive book on Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.The radical and compelling message of Buddhism tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, love, and power of the Buddha within; yet most of us are too often like sleeping Buddhas. In Awakening the Buddha Within, Surya Das...
Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex by Lama Surya Das $16.95
You are deeper than your life shows, and you know it. You are more loving than your relationships allow, more brilliant than your career suggests. In your secret depth of being, you are infinite, creative, boundless-and utterly unable to press your full glory into the world. Or so it seems.
Tao Te Ching (SkyLight Illuminations) by Lama Surya Das $16.99
Reportedly written by a sage named Lao Tzu over 2,500 years ago, the Tao Te Ching is one of the most succinct--and yet among the most profound--spiritual texts ever written. Short enough to read in an afternoon, subtle enough to study for a lifetime, the Tao Te Ching distills into razor-sharp poetry centuries of spiritual inquiry into the Tao--the "Way" of the natural world around us...
The Buddha's Way of Happiness: Healing Sorrow, Transforming Negative Emotion, and Finding Well-Being in the Present Moment by Lama Surya Das $17.95
The excitement you feel after hearing good news or achieving a goal is fleeting, but true happiness-that is, the warm feeling of deep contentment and joy-is lasting, and it can be yours in every moment. The Buddha's Way of Happiness is a guide to putting aside your anxieties about the future, regrets about the past, and constant longing to change your life for the better, and awakening to the joy...
Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be: Lessons on Change, Loss, and Spiritual Transformation by Three Rivers Press $15.00
The beloved American Lama, a spiritual leader whose inimitable light andlively universal teaching style has awakened the spirituality of thousands, now shares an enlightened approach to change and loss, dealing with difficult emotions such as fear, grief, and anger, and the role of crisis in uncovering our authentic selves.For many people, recent years have been characterized by profound change,...
Buddha Is as Buddha Does: The Ten Original Practices for Enlightened Living by HarperSanFrancisco $23.95
In 2006 His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who calls Lama Surya Das the American Lama, said to an American audience, "It is not enough just to meditate and pray, which are always good things to do, but we also must take positive action in this world." In the process of awakening, the Buddha realized that all of us, deep within, are inherently perfect and whole, with the capacity to overcome...
Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Personal Spiritual Life by Three Rivers Press $16.99
Lama Surya Das, author of the bestselling Awakening the Buddha Within, is the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition. In this elegant, inspiring book, he integrates essential Buddhist practices with a variety of other spiritual philosophies and wisdom traditions, to show you how to create a personalized spiritual practice based on your own individual beliefs, aspirations, and...
Awakening Through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness by Lama Surya Das $16.95
Drawing from the author's life as a father, professor, Buddhist, and Buddhist teacher as well as on pop culture references from Bob Dylan to Harry Potter Awakening Through Love is a welcoming guide to achieving the deepest well-being and joy. Rooted in Buddhism’s Dzogchen tradition, the book teaches strategies for realizing a life imbued with love through Buddhist methods for fostering...
The Big Questions: How to Find Your Own Answers to Life's Essential Mysteries by Rodale Books $17.95
The best-selling author of Awakening the Buddha Within addresses life’s most provocative and tantalizing questions simply, directly, and powerfully.Every life is a journey through the unknown. Along the way, however, we tend to encounter the same perplexing questions again and again. Some are cosmic enigmas that have always tested the human mind: What is my purpose in life? What happens after I...
Awakening the Buddhist Heart: Integrating Love, Meaning, and Connection into Every Part of Your Life by Three Rivers Press $15.99
Surya Das illustrates how to develop authentic presence, how to connect to our own life experience, build deeper relationships, embrace life's lessons, as well as learn how to love what we don't like.Everyone needs to feel connected, to love and feel loved, to reach out to others and communicate in order to overcome alienation, loneliness, and a feeling of being disconnected. In AWAKENING THE...