Buddha is as Buddha Does: The Ten Original Practices for Enlightened Living
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In 2006 His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who calls Lama Surya Das the American Lama, said to an American audience, "It is not enough just to meditate and pray, which are always good things to do, but we also must take positive action in this world." In the process of awakening, the Buddha realized that all of us, deep within, are inherently perfect and whole, with the capacity to overcome suffering and transform ourselves into forces for good. In this book national bestselling author Lama Surya Das, one of the foremost American Buddhist teachers, offers a thorough, tried-and-true map to the richest treasure a human being can find--Buddha's advice for living to your true potential. By following these guidelines, you will enter into a life of greater joy, clarity, peace, and wisdom than you ever thought possible. Whether you consider yourself a Buddhist, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, or agnostic, Buddha Is as Buddha Does enables you to reflect more deeply upon how you think, speak, and behave in each moment and to explore more intently your relationships with others. Appropriate for new seekers as well as experienced practitioners, and accompanied by lively anecdotes and practical exercises, this is one of the most accessible books to date on the ancient and timeless wisdom of the Buddha. Buddha Is as Buddha Does is for everyone who seeks to become a better person and share in the bounty of true Buddha nature. Graham Christian - Library Journal Das, a Western-born Buddhist, longtime student and teacher of Eastern religions, and lama in the Tibetan Buddhist order and the founder of Dzogchen Foundation in Massachusetts and California, hopes to persuade all of us that we can both locate and ultimately become bodhisattvas in this life. The ten "practices" along the way include generosity, ethics, patience, and the like, and this book is a full-length effort to show us how these practices are to be accomplished, as much for the sake of the world, which needs the "active compassion" of bodhisattvas, as for ourselves. Das writes with fluency and charm, and this book should be of strong interest to practicing Buddhists. Recommended for most collections.
