12/9/2023 0 Comments Lama surya das retreats![]() ![]() Becoming more authentic and genuine is the main point, and is not a mere matter of personality. Others were introverted, even in the monastery, and they’re introverted now. I was an extrovert then, and even though I lived in a monastery and went on a three-year retreat, I’m still an extrovert. When I was a kid, I was a captain of the baseball team. Is that how you mean it? Personality changes, of course, but our karma relates to our past. As a Zen teaching goes: “When you become you, then Zen becomes Zen, Buddha becomes Buddha.”įor many Westerners, becoming ourselves relates to personality. In the end, we just become more ourselves. ![]() If I’m giving a public talk, I’m Lama Surya Das. When I visit my mother on Long Island, I’m Jeffrey Miller. Is there any distinction between Jeffrey Miller and Surya Das? No. This interview was conducted at Lama Surya Das’s home in Concord, Massachusetts, by Helen Tworkov. In addition to leading dzogchen retreats, he is the author of Awakening the Buddha Within and Awakening the Sacred, and has translated into English a selection of Tibetan wisdom tales, published in a collection titled The Snow Lion’s Turquoise Mane. A dzogchen lineage holder, Lama Surya Das has twice completed the traditional three-year Vajrayana meditation retreat at Shechen Monastery in Dordogne, France. He spent nearly thirty years studying with many of the great spiritual masters of Tibet, including Kalu Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Gyalwa Karmapa, and Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche. Lama Surya Das, the American founder of the Dzogchen Foundation, a lay practice center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was born Jeffrey Miller in Brooklyn, New York, in 1950. ![]()
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