Surya Das: 11 books
The Mind Is Mightier Than the Sword
Enlightening the Mind, Opening the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
From bestselling author and beloved teacher Lama Surya Das comes a thorough, engaging, and user-friendly guide to the teachings of Buddhism.
Lama Surya Das is one of the most well-regarded Buddhist teachers and scholars in America today. His books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and...
Awakening the Buddha Within
Eight Steps to Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
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...
Awakening to the Sacred
Creating a Personal Spiritual Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
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...
Buddha Is as Buddha Does
The Ten Original Practices for Enlightened Living
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
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...
Make Me One with Everything
Buddhist Meditations to Awaken from the Illusion of Separation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
What did the Dalai Lama say to the pizza guy from Brooklyn? “Make me one with everything!” It’s a familiar joke, muses Lama Surya Das, but it holds a profound truth: that in addition to inner peace, meditation is a path for all-inclusive connection .With Make Me One with Everything, he invites...
Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be
Lessons on Change, Loss, and Spiritual Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2004
The beloved American Lama, a spiritual leader whose inimitable light and
lively 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...
Buddha Standard Time
Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
"Awealth of inspiration and practical tips for enjoying the Kingdom of God, thePure Land of the Buddha, now." —Thich Nhat Hanh, bestselling author of Peace Is EveryStep
"Fornewcomers to Buddhism (and non-Buddhists interested in universal wisdom!) and‘old hands’ at practice . . . [Das]...
Awakening the Buddhist Heart
Integrating Love, Meaning, and Connection into Every Part of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
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...
The Big Questions
How to Find Your Own Answers to Life's Essential Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
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...
Occupy Spirituality
A Radical Vision for a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The Occupy Wall Street movement and protest movements around the world are evidence of a new era of intergenerational activists seeking deeper spiritual meaning in their quest for peace and justice.
This book is a call to action for a new era of spirituality-infused activism. Authors Adam Bucko...
by Surya Das
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
This remarkable book brings together more than 150 authentic Buddhist teaching tales from the Hidden Kingdom of Tibet — most never before translated into English. These captivating stories, legends and yarns — passed orally from teacher to student — capture the vibrant wisdom of an ancient and...