The importance of treating people as kind as possible because if you make people happy, they're less likely to make your life unhappy. His advice that he gives to a lot of individuals is something very much along the lines of common sense. Nazario said it was no surprise that the Dalai Lama continued to command such interest. People get attracted to that kind of individual. The Dalai Lama was also scheduled to speak Wednesday at San Jose State University's Event Center, and Thursday at Stanford University. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is one of the most respected spiritual leaders and teachers living in the world today. "Does he ever miss not having a family and children?" "Some of the questions are if you had an opportunity to do something in your life that you may have made a mistake about, what was that and how would you change it? A question about how he likes being a monk," recounted Nazario. The students were clearly eager to learn more about the Buddhist monk. Surya has appeared on Politically Correct with Bill Maher, and twice on The Colbert Report."For example, what does he miss the most about Tibet? How was his life as a little boy before the Chinese government came in and took over that area of the world? What he would like to do most before he passes? What advice would he give young people today?" One segment of the ABC-TV sitcom Dharma & Greg was based on his life (“Leonard’s Return”). Surya Das has been featured in numerous publications and major media, including ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, New York Post, Long Island Newsday, Long Island Business Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, The Jewish Free Press, New Age Journal, Tricycle Magazine, Yoga Journal, The Oregonian, Science of Mind, and has been the subject of a seven minute magazine story on CNN. He is a published author, translator, chant master (see Chants to Awaken the Buddhist Heart CD, with Stephen Halpern), and a regular blog contributor at The Huffington Post, as well as his own blog site where he shares his thoughts and answers questions from the public each week. Lama Surya Das is a sought after speaker and lecturer, teaching and conducting meditation retreats and workshops around the world. In recent years, Lama Surya has turned his efforts and focus towards youth and contemplative education initiatives, what he calls “True higher education and wisdom for life training.” He is also active in interfaith dialogue and charitable projects in the Third World. As founder of the Western Buddhist Teachers Network with the Dalai Lama, he regularly helps organize its international Buddhist Teachers Conferences. Over the years, Surya has brought many Tibetan lamas to this country to teach and start centers and retreats. SF Team Tibet called on Mayor Gavin Newsom, to say No to Beijing’s torch, so long as the Chinese government continued its brutal reign in Tibet. He is the founder of the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and its branch centers around the country, including the retreat center Dzogchen Osel Ling outside Austin, Texas, where he conducts long training retreats and Advanced Dzogchen retreats. Tibetans called on the Chinese government to end its egregious human rights abuses in Tibet and to resolve the issue of Tibet through earnest negotiations with the Dalai Lama or his representatives. He is an authorized lama and lineage holder in the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism, and a close personal disciple of the leading grand lamas of that tradition. Surya has spent over forty five years studying Zen, vipassana, yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with the great masters of Asia, including the Dalai Lama’s own teachers, and has twice completed the traditional three year meditation cloistered retreat at his teacher’s Tibetan monastery. The Dalai Lama affectionately calls him “The Western Lama.” Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars, one of the main interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, and a leading spokesperson for the emerging American Buddhism.
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