Quotes by Surya Das

Surya Das

Also not being afraid to stand up for what you believe in while taking into account that you could very well be wrong, or maybe there’s another way to look at it- that things are not what they seem to be, and that everything is subjective.

Believe

Looks

Way

But you know the difference between sex and love. And sex can be part of love, but what moves your heart, what’s really intimate, that’s the real spirit. And that’s very personal, it’s also transpersonal. It’s not impersonal, it’s beyond any of us, it’s transcendent of any of us, yet imminent in dwelling, imminent to each of us.

Moving

Real

Sex

Contributing to others, not converting others, but for those who are interested, going where invited, speaking when asked, teaching when asked and so on, not proselytizing and missionary-izing. Not shoving the truth down people’s throats, as if we know what’s good for them. But being open when asked, when appropriate, and being very inclusive and open minded.

Missionary

People

Teaching

Everybody has similar values. You travel around the world and everybody is different, but everybody is also the same in those ways. There’s so much difference but there’s so much similarity. Nobody wants to be harmed, or have their children, or their mates, or their relatives, or their families harmed, exploited, bombed, starved, dislocated, or become homeless refugees. So we’re all similar in that way and spiritual life and religion is supposed to be part of the solution not part of the problem.

Children

Differences

Spiritual

Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and fine serenity.

Fine

Remains

Serenity

However, we need to participate and manage skillfully, helpfully, and harmoniously, for a better world, family and society to be possible. So everybody’s spiritual by nature I believe, not that they necessarily have to be religious. Everybody wants, or cares about, and has values even if they don’t talk about them all the time explicitly, like some noisy preachers do with their foghorn voices and dogmatic views.

Believe

Religious

Spiritual

I never really wanted to have a Guru, I was more interested in Buddhist philosophy and meditation, and had a psychological background in college, but he had so much love. To be with him, there was nowhere else to be and nothing else to do. Nothing he taught, philosophy or meditation, are the things I went to India to look for, or was interested in, but he sort of jumped into my heart and then pulled, he pried it open.

Buddhist

Heart

Philosophy

I think it’s very important to really find the wheat amidst the chafe and not give into superficialities, to not get caught up the commercialism or the fads, you know, the “over-popularization” of some things that we might see today. That doesn’t mean we have to throw out the Buddha with the bath water, it’s not all bad.

Giving

Mean

Thinking

It’s not like we’re all animalistic people trying to become more spiritual. We’re really living spirit, trying to find out how to live embodied in this nitty gritty world, these corporeal forms, in these fleeting bodies in the material world where everything’s changing and we’re not in control.

People

Spiritual

Trying

Like many others, I sometimes find that cooking can be naturally grounding.

Cooking

Grounding

Sometimes

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Believe

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Children

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Differences

Dna

Doe

Eye

Fine

Giving

Goal

Grounding

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Heart

Heaven

Inability

Intuition

Isms

Jewels

Joy

Karma

Long

Looks

May

Mean

Media

Mentor

Mind

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Mother

Moving

Names

Needs

Organs

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People

Perception

Philosophy

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Religious

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Quotes by Surya Das

Surya Das

Also not being afraid to stand up for what you believe in while taking into account that you could very well be wrong, or maybe there’s another way to look at it- that things are not what they seem to be, and that everything is subjective.

Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and fine serenity.

Like many others, I sometimes find that cooking can be naturally grounding.

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