{"id":2003,"date":"2012-02-23T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/\/new\/\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2015-07-16T13:58:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T20:58:48","slug":"feb-23-lama-surya-das","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/feb-23-lama-surya-das\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with major life transitions (Lama Surya Das)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/life-transitions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-16914\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/life-transitions-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"life transitions\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Learn to treasure and savor moments in life even the hard ones. \u00a0Pain is inevitable in life, suffering is optional. \u00a0Lama Surya Das offers ideas from his book \u201c<a title=\"Buddha Standard Time\" href=\"http:\/\/www.surya.org\/buddha-standard-time-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Buddha Standard Time<\/a>\u201d so you can learn how to suffer less even during the most difficult life transitions (divorce, loss of loved one, job loss, change in health, etc) when time seems to slow down and anxiety &amp; sadness abounds. The art of flowing through life and seeing it\u2019s perfection as it unfolds is a great gift. \u00a0Learn how to gain perspective and insight and move through these periods with more peace, authentic presence, openness &amp; clarity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Show Highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Part 1 (12 min)<\/span>: Moving through major transitions in life \u2013 Lama Surya Das offers 7 steps we can go through when our grief overwhelms us?<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Part 2 (12 min)<\/span>: Controlling and planning during life transitions- Our tendency during transition periods (\u201cbardo\u201d in Tibetan) <em>is to rush or prolong the state of the unknown.<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0How do we keep a \u201cdon\u2019t know\u201d mindset- why should we? \u00a0How do we plan and be present to what is unfolding before us?<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Part 3 (12 min)<\/span>: Purifying our Perceptions- \u00a0We\u2019ll talk about the Diamond Path or Tibetan Buddhism and the Fiver Auspicious Perfections so that you can open up to the infinite potential inherent in each moment<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Part 4 (8 min)<\/span>: Ask the Lama- Gotta a question you always wanted to ask a Lama? Call us at\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(800)930-2819<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About our Guest:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2159\" title=\"Lama Surya das\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Lama-Surya-das2-107x150.jpg\" alt=\"Lama-Surya-das2\" width=\"107\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lama Surya Das, who the Dalai Lama affectionately calls the American Lama,\u00a0has spent forty years studying with the great spiritual masters of Asia. He is an authorized lama in the Tibetan Buddhist order, and the founder of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dzogchen.org\/\">Dzogchen Center<\/a>. Surya Das is the author of the international bestseller\u00a0<em>Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World\u00a0<\/em>and twelve other books, including his latest release,\u00a0<em>Buddha Standard Time: Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now.\u00a0<\/em>His blog \u201cAsk The Lama\u201d can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.askthelama.org\/\">www.askthelama.com.<\/a>\u00a0To see Surya&#8217;s lecture and retreat schedule please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.surya.org\/\">www.surya.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lama Surya Das&#8217; website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.surya.org\/\">http:\/\/www.surya.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Books:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Buddha-Standard-Time-Awakening-Possibilities\/dp\/0061774561\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1305111210&amp;sr=8-1\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Buddha-Standard-Time-Awakening-Possibilities\/dp\/0061774561\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1305111210&amp;sr=8-1<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Book review:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritualityandpractice.com\/books\/books.php?id=21165\">http:\/\/www.spiritualityandpractice.com\/books\/books.php?id=21165<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn to treasure and savor moments in life even the hard ones. \u00a0Pain is inevitable in life, suffering is optional. \u00a0Lama Surya Das offers ideas from his book \u201cBuddha Standard Time\u201d so you can learn how to suffer less even during the most difficult life transitions (divorce, loss of loved one, job loss, change in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[475,508,64,56],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[3485,3481,1808,3413,3410,3416,3482,2336,3411,3409,3479,1684,1657,3483,3484,3414,3415,3412,3480,3420],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eastern-practices","category-attachment-letting-go","category-self-awareness","category-show-archives"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/life-transitions1-compressed.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21799,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/21799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}