Mindful Environmentalism

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What we seek, we are. We are all Buddhas by
nature, temporarily obscured by adventitious
emotions and illusions. We only have to awaken to
that fact. All that we seek is available within.
And not just within ourselves but within each
other, each relationship, and encounter, each
moment. Lets exploit our own innate natural
resources for a change, and give our exterior
resources a rest. This would truly be Mindful
Environmentalism and planetary stewardship. This
world is my body, all beings my heart-mind.

• Mindful Environmentalism

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"The foolish man looks for happiness in the
distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
James Oppenheim. About Lama Surya Das Lama
Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist
meditation teachers and scholars. He has spent
nearly forty years studying Zen, Vipassana, Yoga,
and Tibetan Buddhism with the great old masters
of Asia. He is the author of the best-seller
"Awakening the Buddha Within" and a dozen other
books, a spokesperson for American Buddhism, the
founder of the Dzogchen Center, and is
affectionately called "The American Lama" by the
Dalai Lama. Today, Lama Surya Das lectures,
teaches and leads meditation retreats throughout
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