Teachings

Lama Surya teaches the following Six Building Blocks of a Spiritual Life:

1. Daily Spiritual Practice
2. Spiritual Study/Reading
3. Inner Growth Work
4. Regular Group Practice
5. Work with Teacher(s), Elder(s), Mentor(s)
6. Altruistic, Charitable Service

The first three tend to be more "alone", the second three more "together".

For further explanation, see Lama Surya's Facebook Note on Six Building Blocks.

"Only in the present moment, free from hope and fear, do we receive the gifts of clarity and resolve. Freed also from anger, aggression, and urgency, we are able to see the situation clearly, take it all in, and discover what to do. This clarity reveals “right action” -- those actions that feel genuinely
appropriate in this moment without any concern about whether they will succeed or not."

                    ~ Margaret Wheatley

Nelson Mandela 

1994 Inaugural Speech, Quoting Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves,

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are we not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that

Other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It ‘s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously

Give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated form our own fear,

Our presence automatically liberates others.

"Sangha requires mutual respect & friendly collaboration, a sense of ourselves as kindred spirits working & exploring & playing together."

             @LamaSuryaDas on Twitter