Life in the 21st century is moving at breakneck speed. Yet despite our slavish dependence on instant coffee, express buses, ATMs and 140 character of Tweets, we are all strapped for time and want desperately for several hours a day. What happens if someone is a solution for how had booked and stressed out, that we all have become?
Now in GRAVURE STANDARDZEIT: Awakening to the infinite possibilities now (Harperone;) June 2011; Hardcover; $25,99), Lama Surya Das, national bestselling author and one of the leading Western Buddhist teachers, provides an alternative to the incessant hustle and bustle of modern American life.
The problem begins, says Surya, with our relationship to time - we experience to do it linearly by moving forward and the accomplishing things. But we are not human acts, and the thinner we spread more disconnected we become. There remain susceptible to high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, insomnia, stomach problems and depression. We need to use the term avoid to the stress melt away, if only we could adapt to the frenetic pace of life. Instead to the eternal now, or what Surya the "Buddha standard time" calls - the realm of timelessness, where one can every option, every action and every breath of modernisation and infinite possibilities.
With "aware moments" exercises and "Time Out" meditations, Surya Das readers with tools that "Please disease," heal, provides kick seeks reconnect with nature and properly to embrace loss, disease and death. If we include Buddha standard time, stress melts away, and we see greater focus, performance, creativity and even wisdom. Buddhists and non-Buddhists find both inner peace and life harmful and happy, that we constantly have in the world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lama Surya Das is the national bestselling author of the awakening the Buddha within, and Buddha is as Buddha does. A renowned Western Buddhist meditation master and scholar, he teaches and lectures throughout the world, carrying out dozens of meditation retreats and workshops per year. Based on his relationship with his Holiness of the Dalai Lama Surya Das founded the Western Buddhist teachers network and Buddhist has meditation teacher three week-long conferences of the Western organized the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India. He also regularly teaches at Esalen, open Center, Omega Institute, interface, at universities in the United States and abroad.
Praise for Buddha: standard time
"This book is Lama Surya Das in his guru Western at the most tone-perfect voice: authoritative, welcoming, generous, funny, poetic, imaginative and are informative and totally accessible." For those new to Buddhism (and universal wisdom interested not Buddhists!) and "old hands" in practice, that is read a beautiful. It promises nothing less than a liberated life, free from the fear of the tyranny of the time, but the practice of the loving presence. "The"do"sections are remarkably interesting and inspiring."
-Sylvia awesome stone, author of happiness is an inside job
"Lama Surya is on our best teachers of universal wisdom." Buddha standard time is fairly drips with insights. "It's like a treasure in your area at all times to keep."
-Marianne Williamson, author of the age of miracles
"Buddha standard time is a welcome antidote to the often hectic pace of modern life." Drawing from the wide range of his poetic, social and scientific interests, as also the great deep of his Buddhist education, Lama Surya Das offers a wise and sane to navigate to these times. "This pragmatic book are illuminating and helpful for anyone who can find timeless in the rush of the time."
-Joseph Goldstein, author of a Dharma and A heart full of peace
"Enjoy a wealth of inspiration and practical tips for the Kingdom of God, the pure land of the Buddha, * now *."
-Best selling author Thich Nhat Hanh
BUDDHA NORMALZEIT
Awakening to the infinite possibilities now
By Lama Surya Das
Harperone, to imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
May 2011 | Hardcover |$ 25,99 | ISBN: 9780061774560
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