Inter-meditation: Let Death be your Guru (Lama Surya Das)

CJ Liu interviews Lama Surya Das on the chapter in his book on Death and Dying and the Lojong practice. Find out why the Buddha said that death was his teacher. What is inter-meditation? How is it different than closed eye solitary meditation on the cushion? What are misunderstandings we have about equanimity? What is the middle path between nihilism and obsession with the material? How can you comfort someone who is terminal? Lama Surya Das outlines structure of the Tonglen practice.

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Surya Das is an American lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He is a poet, chantmaster, spiritual activist, author of many popular works on Buddhism, meditation teacher and spokesperson for Buddhism in the West. He has long been involved in charitable relief projects in the Third World and in interfaith dialogue. Surya Das is a Dharma heir of Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche, a Nyingma master of the non-sectarian Rime movement, with whom he founded the Dzogchen Center and Dzogchen retreats in 1991. His name, which means “Servant of the Sun” in a combination of Sanskrit and Hindi, was given to him in 1972 by the Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba.

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