Lama Surya Das - New Dharma Talks, Anger Pt. 1

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYawgwk7SSs

Lama Surya Das, one of the foremost American Buddhist teachers, speaks about the topic of Anger in relation to buddhism. Topics include the nature of anger, recognizing your own anger, and how to respond to situations that make you angry.

Lama Surya Das, whom His Holiness the Dalai Lama calls the American Lama, has spent more than thirty-five years studying with the great spiritual masters of Asia, eight of them in a cloistered Tibetan retreat and fifteen years in the Himalayas. He is the founder of the Dzogchen Meditation Centers, a leading spokesman for Buddhism and contemporary spirituality, and has often been featured in the mainstream media.

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www.surya.org
www.dzogchen.org

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[MSlapik]

If you're a race car driver maybe not, but if you're a normal person hovering around the speed of life...

That was a great metaphor. I love it how sentences can sometimes have metaphors and then the metaphor relates to something else literally.

[MSlapik]

This is great

[oregonkg]

This is wonderful!

This looks like an interview - do you know where it aired? I'd like to get tapes/transcripts.

Love how Lama Surya Das communicates...

DO MORE OF THESE INTERVIEWS!

[oregonkg]

This is amazing! Part 2 is even better. Was this a professional interview or something? If so, where was it broadcast? I love how he brings Buddhist principles into a context that is easy to understand. I'm just starting to get into Dzogchen practice after 20 years of Zen, and Surya is speaking about Dzogchen in so many ways here, but it's subtle. We're so lucky to have this man in our country. Namaste!

[arthurfreely]

Keep up the good work! Your videos are very pleasant to the ear and comforting to the eye. I didn't think too much, it was good to listen and hear. The message I heard was that only through inner peace can one effectively deal with anger. I have had to hear that much, I am sure there was more, but when I came to that I simply stopped and contemplated what I had gained.

There is much to be angry with these days. It is important to not harbor ill will to those we are angry with.

[KosmicQi]

Anger Part1 and 2. Intensity of meditation can pacify but will not change one's will, self determination. Continual violations of an individual's civil liberties must be expressed by that individual; arts, language, movement, SAFELY. The camera angle in these videos is terrible.

[KosmicQi]

I have to ask, from noting your posture and handgestures, what degree of anger you mean! There are unceasing violations that degrade character to provoke anger intentionally to limit the individual's reflections to subjugation to the group and its blindness. A deep breath, day(s) of meditation; these things have intensity in pacifism to delay anger's hand, and not change one's will! Rap a prayer, find strength in voice, movement, art; find inner determination in the words you say for change.