Weekly Words of Wisdom
chosen by Lama Surya Das
Updated 22 Jan 2003
Introduction
Every week, Lama Surya selects a short teaching which is sent out to Dzogchen Center members by e.mail. Some of these are his own, some from other respected sources. If you would like to receive these on a regular basis, please sign up here.
An archive of messages from prior weeks appears below.
Weekly Words
of Wisdom
Archive
8 Jan 2001 - A Genius Bids Farewell
(wrongly attrib. to Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
1 Jan 2001 - Every Day
(HH Dalai Lama)
26 Dec 2000 - The call to love
(Rumi)
18 Dec 2000 - Only from the heart ...
(Rumi)
11 Dec 2000 - What good is knowledge...
(Rumi)
4 Dec 2000 - Lives of Moral
Leadership
(Robert Coles)
27 Nov 2000 - I'm Nobody!
(Emily Dickinson)
20 Nov 2000 - Ten Tips for Making Holidays More
Sacred
(Lama Surya Das)
12 Nov 2000 - The Jew and the Lotus
(Lama Surya Das)
6 Nov 2000 - Buddha took some Autumn Leaves
(Kenneth Rexroth)
30 Oct 2000 - Ten Tips for Bringing More Spirit Into Your Travel
(Lama Surya Das)
23 Oct 2000 - Five Simple Spiritual Tips for Bringing Peace and Serenity
into Your Workday/Workplace
(Lama Surya Das)
16 Oct 2000 - Three Steps to Simplifying Your Life
(Lama Surya Das)
9 Oct 2000 - Seven Steps of Walking Meditation
(Lama Surya Das)
1 Oct 2000 - Five Stages of Meditation Practice
(Lama Surya Das)
24 Sep 2000 - Beatitudes, from the Sermon on the Mount
(The Bible)
18 Sep 2000 - The Five P's of the Buddhist Path to Enlightenment
(Lama Surya Das)
11 Sep 2000 - Five Steps to Dealing with Anger
(Lama Surya Das)
6 Sep 2000 - Live a balanced life
(Robert Fulghum)
25 Aug 2000 - Self-Portrait, from Fire in the Earth
(David Whyte)
19 Aug 2000 - Each time a man stands up for an ideal
(Robert F. Kennedy)
12 Jun 2000 - Happiness is a superstition, but Joy is our birthright
(Stephen Levine)
6 Jun 2000 - The Very Short Sutra on the Meeting of the Buddha and the
Goddess
(Rick Fields)
16 Apr 2000 - We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what
we give...
8 Apr 2000 - Quotations from Martin Luther
King, Jr. and from the Babylonian Talmud