Make Me One with Everything “If you’ve ever felt ‘at one’ with something—your beloved or your child, a forest trail or a favorite song,” shares Lama Surya Das, “then you’ve experienced intermeditation.”
We’re used to thinking of meditation as a solitary activity that occurs solely in our own minds: by turning inward we strive to dissolve obstacles through self-inquiry and find peace through concentration, contemplation, and self-emptying. But inter-meditation (or co-meditation) is the other half of meditation: it’s inclusive and instead of getting rid of things we embrace people, feelings, and events.
In Make Me One with Everything: Buddhist Meditations to Awaken from the Illusion of Separation, one of the most learned and respected Buddhist teachers in the West—Lama Surya Das—invites us to experience this integration through traditional and original inter-meditation practices that allow us to see through the illusion of separation. Based on Tibetan Buddhism’s core insights into the inherent essence of who we are, the teachings of shared spirituality in Make Me One with Everything offer
both novice and seasoned mediators a better way to live—not just on the meditation cushion or the yoga mat, but in every moment of their lives. Lama Surya Das examines such topics as: •
How to meditate with the Dalai Lama
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Co-meditation and sharing spirituality with our partners
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Why inter-meditating is the antidote to our fractured, discordant digital era
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Heart/mind training methods such as Lojong and Tonglen
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Inter-meditation practices to help dissolve conflict in all types of relationships
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Inter-being with our families
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Healing inter-meditations to help us work with an illness instead of against it
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How to inter-meditate with the dying and the dead
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Why inter-meditation helps us become responsible stewards of peace and the planet “In this book, Make Me One with Everything, Lama Surya Das walks with the reader through life’s experiences while imparting ancient wisdom through the voice of a familiar friend.” ~ His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa
“In a time when meditation and mindfulness are being turned into navalgazing narcissism, yoga is being sold as a sexy commodity, and many of our religious truths are being used to advance a gospel of spiritual materialism, Lama Surya Das sets the record straight reminding us what authentic spirituality is all about and how it can help us to heal ourselves and our world.” ~ Adam Bucko, co-author of Occupy Spirituality
“In Make Me One with Everything, Lama Surya Das, once again, expands the scope of understanding what spiritual practice is all about. Through teachings, stories, personal encounters, and the depth of his own practice, he shows with wisdom, clarity, and humor that in interconnection – intermeditation – nothing is left out. A much needed perspective in these times.”~ Joseph Goldstein, author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening For more details visit here https://lamasuryadivorce.wordpress.com/2015/08/25/make-me-onewith-everything/