![]() ![]() On the other hand, I’m increasingly interested in furthering true Higher Education, contemplative education and self-realization, and co-creating a sacred-minded learning community among ourselves here in this country right now. Moreover, it’s time for those of who are old and savvy enough to aspire to be service oriented leaders and producers - rather than mere consumer - to pass on what wisdom and experience we’ve gathered to those to follow, and co-create with them a better world now as well as stewarding and guarding a better future, include all beings and the entire environment. I believe now is the time for awakening together - a collective arising and joining - and not just for self-help and self-growth the new generations are crucial for this. These are not necessarily my first priories, and my mission remains the same as always: teaching and transmitting Buddhist wisdom and practice - and particularly the Dzogchen Dharma lineage tradition - to people today and contributing to global spirituality and a saner, safer and more beautiful and peaceful world. Why have you made young people and contemplative education initiatives your first priorities? Your bio now notes that you have “turned efforts toward youth and contemplative education initiatives.” Would you say something more about this decision to focus your efforts. In ascending order, I have noticed an arc of deepening and sharpening development beginning with the natural mindfulness of interest, which stabilizes attention and on to intentionally generated or cultivated, effortful mindfulness then on thru intermittent mindfulness, on to stable mindfulness, global mindfulness, and Dharmakaya (rigpa) cosmic mindfulness. I have gradually developed, over the years of teaching meditation, a new schema of the Six Kinds of Mindfulness for my students to understand and better guide and focus their own integrated moment-to-moment nowness-awareness practice and meditative progress, both on and off the cushion. In general there are said to be two kinds of mindfulness, according to Buddhist pioneer Joseph Goldstein: directed and undirected. ![]() My Dzogchen teacher also laid out “Six Kinds of Mindfulness,” based on Nagarjuna’s teaching about this. ![]() Among its many and varied skillful means – tools and techniques for the inner science of transformative awakening and enlightenment – Tibetan Buddhism too has its secrets and tips, based on what lamas call “The Four Close Contemplations” (known in the Theravada tradition as “The Four Foundations of Mindfulness”). Mindful awareness and lucid presence of mind are at the heart of any contemplative practice, especially within the context of Buddhism. What can you tell us about your upcoming mini-workshop at InsightLA, “The Secrets of Tibetan Mindfulness”? “The Secrets of Tibetan Mindfulness: Remembering to Remember,” to be held March 17, will explore the ways in which innate awareness offers “indispensable aids to boost enlightened living and authenticity, freedom and well-being.” In advance of his visit, Lama Surya Das made time to be interviewed by Danny Fisher about the program, as well as some of the other things he’s been up to… Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)ĭanny Fisher interviews Lama Surya Das on humor, contemplative education, technology, and the secrets of Tibetan mindfulness.Ī dyed-in-the-wool East Coast guy, Lama Surya Das - Tibetan Buddhist teacher founder of the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, MA and author of such bestselling books as Awakening the Buddha Within and Buddha Standard Time – will be making the trek way out west next month for a special mini-workshop at InsightLA in Santa Monica, CA.Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window).Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window). ![]()
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