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Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Making ‘We’ the New ‘I’

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2015

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western scholars of Tibetan Buddhism. He is the founder of the Dzogchen Foundation and the author of many books, including Awakening the Buddha Within. In this episode of Insights at the Edge the good lama and Tami Simon discuss his newest book, Make Me One with Everything: Buddhist Meditations to Awaken from the Illusion of Separation, focusing on the concept of “inter-meditation.” They talk about inter-meditating in nature, inter-meditating with difficult emotional experiences, and even inter-meditating with people we could call our enemies. Finally, Lama Surya Das expounds on some of the book’s potent aphorisms for leading an enlightened life. (68 minutes)

Transcript

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This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.

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At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio

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learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events.

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At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves

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as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,

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offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.

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Sounds True.com, guest is Lama Suryadas.

0:45.4

Lama Suryadas is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and

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scholars as well as one of the main interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism in the West.

0:55.2

He has spent over 45 years studying Zen, Ephesina, yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with the

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great masters of Asia, including the Dalai Lama's own teachers.

1:06.0

Lama Sury Das is the founder of the Zobchen Foundation and the author of many books including

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awakening the Buddha within and awakening to the sacred,

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as well as a new book from Sounds True,

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Make Me One with Everything,

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Buddhist Meditations to Aw from the illusion of separation.

1:27.0

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Lama Suridas and I spoke about what it means to be with it and not against it.

1:37.4

We also talked about intermeditating in nature, intermeditating with difficult emotional experiences, and even intermeditating

1:48.2

with people we could call our enemies.

1:51.6

Finally, as a theme running throughout this entire conversation, we talked about what it means not

1:58.2

only to let things go, but to let things come, and how when we let things go and let things come we learn how to

2:07.8

let things be.

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