Lama Surya Das: So it’s no there’s no shortage of inspiring models in the world. Lama Surya Das: very inspiring both of them I mean, look at you know, look at the Dalai Lama. I think we get more and more natural as time goes on. So I learned and you know, there’s a lot of joy and buoyance and lightness in the path in the Spirit. Lama Surya Das: If we take ourselves too seriously, life ain’t much fun. Lama Surya Das: Yeah, my girlfriend in the 70s used to nicknamed COVID Sirius dots. So you’re not really taking this stuff? Seriously. But you ended up in Tibet, and studying in monasteries and doing three year intensives and actually learning Tibetan. And then you end up like, I’m sure I’m skipping a lot. Surya das rom Das Krishna Das vitamin that’s all those guys. Then next thing I hear you’re in India with Neem Karoli Baba and the DAS brothers so my name Yeah. And then he ended up Woodstock and I suspect you probably inhaled. Rick Archer: I mean, you know, here you were Jeffrey Miller, growing up on Long Island, studying Judaism, you know, a little bored with that. And you Yeah, I was kind of reminded Forrest Gump when I thought when I heard of your life, because, you know, not in the sense that you’re dumb or anything. Rick Archer: did a bit of that for a year and then realized that was gonna kill me. Lama Surya Das: the 60s 60 consciousness expansion, And partly through the inspiration of your friend rom Das, who was Richard Alpert at the time, Well, I kind of first of all got into drugs a bit, as many of us did. Rick Archer: Good got into it when I was. You’ve been meditating and following your teachers and gurus since I don’t know if I say when you’ve ever but I don’t know how old we are. Lama Surya Das: I feel I feel happy and grateful. And I really got the sense that you Well, first of all, I feel inclined, you’re one of these people to whom I feel like saying, congratulations on a life well lived, even though it’s far from over, hopefully, but you’ve really given it your all. And I listened to, I don’t know, six or seven hours worth of your talks over the past week, mostly while cross country skiing. So you Das is the author of the international bestseller awakening the Buddha within Tibetan wisdom for the Western world, and 12 other books, including his latest release, Buddhist Standard Time, awakening to the infinite possibilities of now, his blog, ask Bulama can be found at Escalon and dot o it on this thing to see his lecture, and I’ll be linking to all this stuff from my website, search Is your site. He’s an authorized Lama in the Tibetan Buddhist order and the founder of the Zope Zen Center. He spent over 40 years studying with the great spiritual masters of Asia. Lama Surya Das is referred to affection by the Dalai Lama as the American Lama. Rick Archer: Let me read you a little bio here. Rick Archer: people say in Australia that you know, gas implies and they call it petrol, you know, so, so gas implies some digestive disturbance or so yeah, Lama Surya Das: I’m thinking about like hot air you know, that, that that kind of Especially if I’m eating a lot of dried fruit. Rick Archer: got a bit of that myself sometimes. Lama Surya Das: you don’t need more Buddhists on the show but more guests true going. So it’s great to have you on Yeah, well, I’m assuming I’ve had far too few of those considering the name of this show. And my guest today is Lama Surya Das, who was an actual Buddha’s. Rick Archer: Welcome to Buddha at the Gas Pump. If you would like to correct them please contact me. This rough draft generated by Otter.ai contains errors.
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